A new era of wide-field submillimetre imaging: On-sky performance of SCUBA-2

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8452, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Dempsey, Jessica T ^a   Holland, Wayne S ^b,c   Chrysostomou, Antonio ^a   Berry, David S ^a   Bintley, Daniel ^a   Chapin, Edward L ^c   Craig, Simon C ^a   Coulson, Iain M ^a   Davis, Gary R ^a   Friberg, Per ^a   Jenness, Tim ^a   Gibb, Andy G ^c   Parsons, Harriet A L ^a   Scott, Douglas ^c   Thomas, Holly S ^a   Tilanus, Remo P J ^a,d   Robson, Ian ^b   Walther, Craig A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UK ASTRONOMY TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Calibration; Detectors; Submillimetre imaging

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE YIELD; CALIBRATION TECHNIQUES; FIELD OF VIEWS; GENERAL SCIENCE; JAMES CLERK MAXWELL TELESCOPE; M-ARRAY; MAPPING CAMERA; NOISE CHARACTERISTIC; SCUBA-2; SUBMILLIMETRE; TWO WAVELENGTH; WIDE-FIELD;

ASTRONOMY; CALIBRATION; CAMERAS; DETECTORS; INFRARED DETECTORS;

INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 84871561739     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.926547     Document Type: Conference Paper

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