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SCUBA: a common-user submillimetre camera operating on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
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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 microns to 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 and user interface, performance figures on the telescope, and present a sample of the exciting new results that have revolutionised submillimetre astronomy.
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- Holland, W. S., Robson, E. I., Gear, W. K., Cunningham, C. R., Lightfoot, J. F., Jenness, T., Ivison, R. J., Stevens, J. A., Ade, P. A. R., Griffin, M. J., Duncan, W. D., Murphy, J. A., & Naylor, D. A.
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- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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- Oxford University Press (OUP)
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- 1999-03-11
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- 303
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 659-672
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- 0035-8711 (ISSN-L)
- 1365-2966
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- W2109401568
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- 256.10
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- journal article
- Language
- en
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