An update on the SCUBA-2 project

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5498, Issue , 2004, Pages 63-77

  Audley, Michael D ^a   Holland, Wayne S ^a   Hudson, Trevor ^a   Macintosh, Mike ^a   Robson, Ian ^a   Irwin, Kent ^b   Hilton, Gene ^b   Duncan, William ^b   Reintsema, Carl ^b   Walton, Anthony ^c   Parkes, William ^c   Ade, Peter ^d   Walker, Ian ^d   Fich, Michel ^e   Kycia, Jan ^e   Halpern, Mark ^f   Naylor, David A ^g   Mitchell, George ^h   Bastien, Pierre ⁱ  

^a UK ASTRONOMY TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^h SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

SCUBA 2; Sub millimetre bolometer array

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; ASTRONOMY; BOLOMETERS; GALAXIES; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTERFEROMETERS; MAPPING; POLARIMETERS; SENSORS; SILICON NITRIDE; SUBMILLIMETER WAVES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BOLOMETER ARRAYS; SCUBA-2; SUB-MILLIMETER; WAVELENGTHS;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 19944431456     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551259     Document Type: Conference Paper

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