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The JCMT Gould Belt Survey: SCUBA-2 Data-Reduction Methods and Gaussian Source Recovery Analysis

The JCMT Gould Belt Survey was one of the first Legacy Surveys with the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii, mapping 47 square degrees of nearby (< 500 pc) molecular clouds in both dust continuum emission at 850 $\mu$m and 450 $\mu$m,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-10 Helen Kirk , Jennifer Hatchell , Doug Johnstone , David Berry , Tim Jenness , Jane Buckle , Steve Mairs , Erik Rosolowsky , James Di Francesco , Sarah Sadavoy , Malcolm Currie , Hannah Broekhoven-Fiene , Joseph C. Mottram , Kate Pattle , Brenda Matthews , Lewis B. G. Knee , Gerald Moriarty-Schieven , Ana Duarte-Cabral , Sam Tisi , Derek Ward-Thompson

The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope Legacy Survey of Nearby Star-forming Regions in the Gould Belt

This paper describes a James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) legacy survey that has been awarded roughly 500 hrs of observing time to be carried out from 2007 to 2009. In this survey we will map with SCUBA-2 (Submillimetre Common User…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Ward-Thompson , J. Di Francesco , J. Hatchell , M. R. Hogerheijde , P. Bastien , S. Basu , I. Bonnell , J. Bowey , C. Brunt , J. Buckle , H. Butner , B. Cavanagh , A. Chrysostomou , E. Curtis , C. J. Davis , W. R. F. Dent , E. van Dishoeck , M. G. Edmunds , M. Fich , J. Fiege , L. Fissel , P. Friberg , R. Friesen , W. Frieswijk , G. A. Fuller , A. Gosling , S. Graves , J. S. Greaves , F. Helmich , R. E. Hills , W. S. Holland , M. Houde , R. Jayawardhana , D. Johnstone , G. Joncas , H. Kirk , J. M. Kirk , L. B. G. Knee , B. Matthews , H. Matthews , C. Matzner , G. H. Moriarty-Schieven , D. Naylor , D. Nutter , R. Padman , R. Plume , J. M. C. Rawlings , R. O. Redman , M. Reid , J. S. Richer , R. Shipman , R. J. Simpson , M. Spaans , D. Stamatellos , Y. Tsanis , S. Viti , B. Weferling , G. J. White , A. P. Whitworth , J. Wouterloot , J. Yates , M. Zhu

Towards the automated reduction and calibration of SCUBA data from the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

The Submillimetre Common User Bolometer Array (SCUBA) instrument has been operating on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) since 1997. The data archive is now sufficiently large that it can be used to investigate instrumental…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tim Jenness , Jason A. Stevens , Elese N. Archibald , Frossie Economou , N. E. Jessop , E. I. Robson

The JCMT Transient Survey: Data Reduction and Calibration Methods

Though there has been a significant amount of work investigating the early stages of low-mass star formation in recent years, the evolution of the mass assembly rate onto the central protostar remains largely unconstrained. Examining in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-31 Steve Mairs , James Lane , Doug Johnstone , Helen Kirk , Kevin Lacaille , Geoffrey C. Bower , Graham S. Bell , Sarah Graves , Scott Chapman , The JCMT Transient Survey Team

The SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey: 850um maps, catalogues and number counts

We present a catalogue of nearly 3,000 submillimetre sources detected at 850um over ~5 square degrees surveyed as part of the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey (S2CLS). This is the largest survey of its…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-21 J. E. Geach , J. S. Dunlop , M. Halpern , Ian Smail , P. van der Werf , D. M. Alexander , O. Almaini , I. Aretxaga , V. Arumugam , V. Asboth , M. Banerji , J. Beanlands , P. N. Best , A. W. Blain , M. Birkinshaw , E. L. Chapin , S. C. Chapman , C-C. Chen , A. Chrysostomou , C. Clarke , D. L. Clements , C. Conselice , K. E. K. Coppin , W. I. Cowley , A. L. R. Danielson , S. Eales , A. C. Edge , D. Farrah , A. Gibb , C. M. Harrison , N. K. Hine , D. Hughes , R. J. Ivison , M. Jarvis , T. Jenness , S. F. Jones , A. Karim , M. Koprowski , K. K. Knudsen , C. G. Lacey , T. Mackenzie , G. Marsden , K. McAlpine , R. McMahon , R. Meijerink , M. J. Michalowski , S. J. Oliver , M. J. Page , J. A. Peacock , D. Rigopoulou , E. I. Robson , I. Roseboom , K. Rotermund , Douglas Scott , S. Serjeant , C. Simpson , J. M. Simpson , D. J. B. Smith , M. Spaans , F. Stanley , J. A. Stevens , A. M. Swinbank , T. Targett , A. P. Thomson , E. Valiante , T. M. A. Webb , C. Willott , J. A. Zavala , M. Zemcov

SCUBA-2: iterative map-making with the Sub-Millimetre User Reduction Facility

The Submillimetre Common User Bolometer Array 2 (SCUBA-2) is an instrument operating on the 15-m James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, nominally consisting of 5120 bolometers in each of two simultaneous imaging bands centred over 450 and 850 um.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-26 Edward L. Chapin , David S. Berry , Andrew G. Gibb , Tim Jenness , Douglas Scott , Remo P. J. Tilanus , Frossie Economou , Wayne S. Holland

SCUBA-2: on-sky calibration using submillimetre standard sources

SCUBA-2 is a 10000-bolometer submillimetre camera on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT). The instrument commissioning was completed in September 2011, and full science operations began in October 2011. To harness the full potential of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-09 Jessica T. Dempsey , Per Friberg , Tim Jenness , Remo P. J. Tilanus , Holly S. Thomas , Wayne S. Holland , Dan Bintley , David S. Berry , Edward L. Chapin , Antonio Chrysostomou , Gary R. Davis , Andrew G. Gibb , Harriet Parsons , E. Ian Robson

SCUBA-2: The 10000 pixel bolometer camera on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

SCUBA-2 is an innovative 10000 pixel bolometer camera operating at submillimetre wavelengths on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT). The camera has the capability to carry out wide-field surveys to unprecedented depths, addressing key…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-09 W. S. Holland , D. Bintley , E. L. Chapin , A. Chrysostomou , G. R. Davis , J. T. Dempsey , W. D. Duncan , M. Fich , P. Friberg , M. Halpern , K. D. Irwin , T. Jenness , B. D. Kelly , M. J. MacIntosh , E. I. Robson , D. Scott , P. A. R. Ade , E. Atad-Ettedgui , D. S. Berry , S. C. Craig , X. Gao , A. G. Gibb , G. C. Hilton , M. I. Hollister , J. B. Kycia , D. W. Lunney , H. McGregor , D. Montgomery , W. Parkes , R. P. J. Tilanus , J. N. Ullom , C. A. Walther , A. J. Walton , A. L. Woodcraft , M. Amiri , D. Atkinson , B. Burger , T. Chuter , I. M. Coulson , W. B. Doriese , C. Dunare , F. Economou , M. D. Niemack , H. A. L. Parsons , C. D. Reintsema , B. Sibthorpe , I. Smail , R. Sudiwala , H. S. Thomas

The Herschel and JCMT Gould Belt Surveys: Constraining Dust Properties in the Perseus B1 Clump with PACS, SPIRE, and SCUBA-2

We present Herschel observations from the Herschel Gould Belt Survey and SCUBA-2 science verification observations from the JCMT Gould Belt Survey of the B1 clump in the Perseus molecular cloud. We determined the dust emissivity index using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-06-09 S. I. Sadavoy , J. Di Francesco , D. Johnstone , M. J. Currie , E. Drabek , J. Hatchell , D. Nutter , Ph. André , D. Arzoumanian , M. Benedettini , J. -P. Bernard , A. Duarte-Cabral , C. Fallscheer , R. Friesen , J. Greaves , M. Hennemann , T. Hill , T. Jenness , V. Könyves , B. Matthews , J. C. Mottram , S. Pezzuto , A. Roy , K. Rygl , N. Schneider-Bontemps , L. Spinoglio , L. Testi , N. Tothill , D. Ward-Thompson , G. White

The JCMT Transient Survey: Six-Year Summary of 450/850\,$\mu$m Protostellar Variability and Calibration Pipeline Version 2.0

The JCMT Transient Survey has been monitoring eight Gould Belt low-mass star-forming regions since December 2015 and six somewhat more distant intermediate-mass star-forming regions since February 2020 with SCUBA-2 on the JCMT at \ShortS…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-09 Steve Mairs , Seonjae Lee , Doug Johnstone , Colton Broughton , Jeong-Eun Lee , Gregory J. Herczeg , Graham S. Bell , Zhiwei Chen , Carlos Contreras-Peña , Logan Francis , Jennifer Hatchell , Mi-Ryang Kim , Sheng-Yuan Liu , Geumsook Park , Keping Qiu , Yao-Te Wang , Xu Zhang , The JCMT Transient Team

Submillimeter Galaxy studies in the next decade: EAO Submillimetre Futures White Paper Series, 2019

Over the last two decades, the Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array (SCUBA) and SCUBA-2 on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) achieved gread success in discovering the population of dusty starburst galaxies in the early universe.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-22 Ran Wang , Wei-Hao Wang , David L. Clements , Haojing Yan , Yiping Ao

On the atmospheric limitations of ground-based submillimetre astronomy using array receivers

The calibration of ground-based submillimetre observations has always been a difficult process. We discuss how to overcome the limitations imposed by the submillimetre atmosphere. Novel ways to improve line-of-sight opacity estimates are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. N. Archibald , T. Jenness , W. S. Holland , I. M. Coulson , N. E. Jessop , J. A. Stevens , E. I. Robson , R. P. J. Tilanus , W. D. Duncan , J. F. Lightfoot

The JCMT Nearby Galaxies Legacy Survey: SCUBA-2 observations of nearby galaxies

We present 850$\mu$m observations of a sample of 8 nearby spiral galaxies, made using the SCUBA-2 camera on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) as part of the JCMT Nearby Galaxies Legacy Survey (NGLS). We corrected our data for the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-15 Kate Pattle , Walter Gear , Christine D. Wilson

SCOPE: SCUBA-2 Continuum Observations of Pre-protostellar Evolution - Survey Description and Compact Source Catalogue

We present the first release of the data and compact-source catalogue for the JCMT Large Program SCUBA-2 Continuum Observations of Pre-protostellar Evolution (SCOPE). SCOPE consists of 850-um continuum observations of 1235 Planck Galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-06 D. J. Eden , Tie Liu , Kee-Tae Kim , S. -Y. Liu , K. Tatematsu , J. Di Francesco , K. Wang , Y. Wu , M. A. Thompson , G. A. Fuller , Di Li , I. Ristorcelli , Sung-ju Kang , N. Hirano , D. Johnstone , Y. Lin , J. H. He , P. M. Koch , Patricio Sanhueza , S. -L. Qin , Q. Zhang , P. F. Goldsmith , N. J. Evans , J. Yuan , C. -P. Zhang , G. J. White , Minho Choi , Chang Won Lee , L. V. Toth , S. Mairs , H. -W. Yi , M. Tang , A. Soam , N. Peretto , M. R. Samal , M. Fich , H. Parsons , J. Malinen , G. J. Bendo , A. Rivera-Ingraham , H. -L. Liu , J. Wouterloot , P. S. Li , L. Qian , J. Rawlings , M. G. Rawlings , S. Feng , B. Wang , Dalei Li , M. Liu , G. Luo , A. P. Marston , K. M. Pattle , V. -M. Pelkonen , A. J. Rigby , S. Zahorecz , G. Zhang , R. Bogner , Y. Aikawa , S. Akhter , D. Alina , G. Bell , J. -P. Bernard , A. Blain , L. Bronfman , D. -Y. Byun , S. Chapman , H. -R. Chen , M. Chen , W. -P. Chen , X. Chen , Xuepeng Chen , A. Chrysostomou , Y. -H. Chu , E. J. Chung , D. Cornu , G. Cosentino , M. R. Cunningham , K. Demyk , E. Drabek-Maunder , Y. Doi , C. Eswaraiah , E. Falgarone , O. Feher , H. Fraser , P. Friberg , G. Garay , J. X. Ge , W. K. Gear , J. Greaves , X. Guan , L. Harvey-Smith , T. Hasegawa , Y. He , C. Henkel , T. Hirota , W. Holland , A. Hughes , E. Jarken , T. -G. Ji , I. Jimenez-Serra , Miju Kang , K. S. Kawabata , Gwanjeong Kim , Jungha Kim , Jongsoo Kim , S. Kim , B. -C. Koo , Woojin Kwon , Y. -J. Kuan , K. M. Lacaille , S. -P. Lai , C. F. Lee , J. E. Lee , Y. -U. Lee , H. Li , N. Lo , J. A. P. Lopez , X. Lu , A. -R. Lyo , D. Mardones , P. McGehee , F. Meng , L. Montier , J. Montillaud , T. J. T. Moore , O. Morata , G. H. Moriarty-Schieven , S. Ohashi , S. Pak , Geumsook Park , R. Paladini , G. Pech , K. Qiu , Z. -Y. Ren , J. Richer , T. Sakai , H. Shang , H. Shinnaga , D. Stamatellos , Y. -W. Tang , A. Traficante , C. Vastel , S. Viti , A. Walsh , H. Wang , J. Wang , D. Ward-Thompson , A. Whitworth , C. D. Wilson , Y. Xu , J. Yang , Y. -L. Yuan , L. Yuan , A. Zavagno , C. Zhang , G. Zhang , H. -W. Zhang , C. Zhou , J. Zhou. L. Zhu , P. Zuo

An update on the SCUBA-2 project

SCUBA-2, which replaces SCUBA (the Submillimeter Common User Bolometer Array) on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) in 2006, is a large-format bolometer array for submillimeter astronomy. Unlike previous detectors which have used…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-26 Michael Audley , Wayne Holland , Trevor Hodson , Mike MacIntosh , Ian Robson , Kent Irwin , Gene Hilton , William Duncan , Carl Reintsema , Anthony Walton , William Parkes , Peter Ade , Ian Walker , Michel Fich , Jan Kycia , Mark Halpern , David Naylor , George Mitchell , Pierre Bastien

An Analysis of Optical Pick-up in SCUBA Data

The Sub-millimetre Common User Bolometer Array (SCUBA) at the JCMT employs a chopping and nodding observation technique to remove variations in the atmospheric signal and improve the long term stability of the instrument. In order to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Zemcov , M. Halpern , E. Pierpaoli

A Decade of SCUBA-2: A Comprehensive Guide to Calibrating 450 $\mu$m and 850 $\mu$m Continuum Data at the JCMT

The Submillimetre Common User Bolometer Array 2 (SCUBA-2) is the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope's continuum imager, operating simultaneously at 450 and 850~$\mu$m. SCUBA-2 was commissioned in 2009--2011 and since that time, regular…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-20 Steve Mairs , Jessica T. Dempsey , Graham S. Bell , Harriet Parsons , Malcolm J. Currie , Per Friberg , Xue-Jian Jiang , Alexandra J. Tetarenko , Dan Bintley , Jamie Cookson , Shaoliang Li , Mark G. Rawlings , Jan Wouterloot , David Berry , Sarah Graves , Izumi Mizuno , Alexis Ann Acohido , Alyssa Clark , Jeff Cox , Miriam Fuchs , James Hoge , Johnathon Kemp , E'lisa Lee , Callie Matulonis , William Montgomerie , Kevin Silva , Patrice Smith

Removing sky contributions from SCUBA data

The Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array (SCUBA) is a new continuum camera operating on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. It consists of two arrays of bolometric detectors; a 91 pixel 350/450 micron array…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-29 Tim Jenness , John F. Lightfoot , Wayne S. Holland

From Clumps to Cores to Protostars: The JCMT Gould Belt Survey's "First-Look" analysis of Southern Orion A using SCUBA-2

We present a subset of the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope Gould Belt Survey's "first-look" results of the southern extent of the Orion A molecular cloud. Employing a two-step structure identification process, we constructed individual…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-06 Steve Mairs , Doug Johnstone , Helen Kirk

A Deep Sub-millimeter Survey of Lensing Clusters: A New Window on Galaxy Formation and Evolution

We present the first results of a sub-millimeter survey of distant clusters using the new Sub-mm Common-User Bolometer Array (SCUBA) on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope. We have mapped fields in two massive, concentrated clusters, A370 at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Ian Smail , R. J. Ivison , A. W. Blain