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

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Abstract
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 µm 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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Authors W. S. Holland, E. I. Robson, W. K. Gear, Colin Cunningham, J. F. Lightfoot, T. Jenness, R. J. Ivison, J. A. Stevens, P. A. R. Ade, M. J. Griffin, W. D. Duncan, J. A. Murphy, D. A. Naylor
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Journal monthly notices of the royal astronomical society
Year 1999
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10.1046/j.1365-8711.1999.02111.x
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https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-8711.1999.02111.x
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