SCUBA: A submillimeter camera operating on the James Clerk Maxwell telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3357, Issue , 1998, Pages 305-318

  Holland, Wayne S ^a   Cunningham, Colin R ^b   Gear, Walter K ^c   Jenness, Tim ^a   Laidlaw, Ken ^b   Lightfoot, John F ^b   Robson, E I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UK ASTRONOMY TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bolometer arrays: SCUBA; Submillimetre astronomy: JCMT

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; ASTROPHYSICS; BOLOMETERS; CAMERAS; INFRARED DETECTORS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; MICROMETERS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; TELESCOPES; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

BOLOMETER ARRAYS: SCUBA; JAMES CLERK MAXWELL TELESCOPE (JCMT); NEW GENERATION; SUB-MILLIMETER; SUBMILLIMETRE ASTRONOMY: JCMT; TRANSMISSION WINDOWS; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES;

EID: 0041468664     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.317366     Document Type: Conference Paper

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