TY - JOUR
T1 - SCUBA: a common-user submillimetre camera operating on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
AU - Holland, W.S.
AU - Robson, E.I.
AU - Gear, W.K.
AU - Cunningham, C.
AU - Lightfoot, J.F.
AU - Jenness, T.
AU - Ivison, R.J.
AU - Stevens, J. A.
AU - Ade, P.A.R.
AU - Griffin, M.J.
AU - Duncan, W.D.
AU - Murphy, J.A.
AU - Naylor, D.A.
N1 - The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com '.--Copyright Blackwell Publishing DOI : 10.1046/j.1365-8711.1999.02111.x
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - 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 350μm to 2mm. 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 and user interface, performance figures on the telescope, and present a sample of the exciting new results that have revolutionised submillimetre astronomy.
AB - 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 350μm to 2mm. 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 and user interface, performance figures on the telescope, and present a sample of the exciting new results that have revolutionised submillimetre astronomy.
U2 - 10.1046/j.1365-8711.1999.02111.x
DO - 10.1046/j.1365-8711.1999.02111.x
M3 - Article
SN - 0035-8711
VL - 303
SP - 659
EP - 672
JO - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
JF - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
IS - 4
ER -