Holland, W. S., Duncan, W. D., Audley, M. D., Cliffe, M., Gao, X., Gostick, D., Hodson, T., Kelly, B. D., MacIntosh, M. J., McGregor, H., Peacocke, P. T., Smith, I. A., Robson, E. I., Irwin, K. D., Hilton, G., Ullom, J., Walton, A., Parkes, W., Dunare, C., Ade, Peter A. R.  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5127-0401 and Rich, M.
2003.
SCUBA-2: Realizing CCD-style imaging in the submillimeter.
Presented at: American Astronomical Society 201st Meeting,
Seattle, WA, USA,
5-9 January 2003.
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Abstract
Due to be operational on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in early 2006, SCUBA-2 will be the first 'CCD-like' camera for submillimeter astronomy. With over 12,000 pixels in two arrays, SCUBA-2 will be able to map the submillimeter sky up to a 1000 times faster than the current SCUBA instrument to the same signal-to-noise, and reach the confusion limit in only a couple of hours. SCUBA-2 is expected to have a huge impact on many areas of astronomy from studies of galaxy formation and evolution in the early Universe to understanding star and planet formation in our own Galaxy. Crucially, SCUBA-2 will also act as a ``pathfinder" for the new generation of submm interferometers (e.g. ALMA) by performing large-area surveys to an unprecedented depth. In this paper we present an update on both the array development and the instrument design over the past year.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Poster) |
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| Date Type: | Completion |
| Status: | Unpublished |
| Schools: | Schools > Physics and Astronomy |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QC Physics |
| Additional Information: | Abstract published in the Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. From Microns to Meters: Radio Wavelength Miscellany- Session 121.2. Vo. 34, issue 4. |
| Last Modified: | 21 Oct 2022 10:19 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/39836 |
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