Removing sky contributions from SCUBA data

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3357, Issue , 1998, Pages 548-558

  Jenness, Tim ^a   Lightfoot, John F ^a,b   Holland, Wayne S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UK ASTRONOMY TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bolometer arrays; SCUBA; Sky noise; Submillimetre astronomy

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; ASTROPHYSICS; BOLOMETERS; INFRARED DETECTORS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PIXELS; TELESCOPES;

BOLOMETER ARRAYS; JAMES CLERK MAXWELL TELESCOPE (JCMT); PHOTON NOISE; SCUBA; SKY BACKGROUND; SKY-NOISE; SUB-MILLIMETER; SUB-MILLIMETER WAVELENGTHS; SUBMILLIMETRE ASTRONOMY; TEMPORAL FLUCTUATIONS;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES;

EID: 0006164438     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.317389     Document Type: Conference Paper

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