SCUBA: a common-user submillimetre camera operating on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

Holland, W. S., Robson, E. I., Gear, Walter Kieran ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6789-6196, Cunningham, C. R., Lightfoot, J. F., Jenness, T., Ivison, R. J., Stevens, J. A., Ade, Peter A. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5127-0401, Griffin, Matthew Joseph ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0033-177X, Duncan, W. D., Murphy, J. A. and Naylor, D. A. 1999. SCUBA: a common-user submillimetre camera operating on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 303 (4) , pp. 659-672. 10.1046/j.1365-8711.1999.02111.x

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SCUBA, the Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array, built by the Royal Observatory Edinburgh for the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, is the most versatile and powerful of a new generation of submillimetre cameras. It combines a sensitive dual-waveband imaging array with a three-band photometer, and is sky-background-limited by the emission from the Mauna Kea atmosphere at all observing wavelengths from 350 μμto 2 mm. The increased sensitivity and array size mean that SCUBA maps close to 10 000 times faster than its single-pixel predecessor (UKT14). SCUBA is a facility instrument, open to the world community of users, and is provided with a high level of user support. We give an overview of the instrument, describe the observing modes, user interface and performance figures on the telescope, and present a sample of the exciting new results that have revolutionized submillimetre astronomy.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy
Subjects:	Q Science > QB Astronomy Q Science > QC Physics
Uncontrolled Keywords:	instrumentation: detectors; telescopes; dust, extinction; radio continuum: galaxies; radio continuum: ISM; radio continuum: stars
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Publisher:	Royal Astronomical Society
ISSN:	0035-8711
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	30 March 2016
Last Modified:	10 May 2023 00:37
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/7391

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