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SCUBA

(Submillimetre Common-user Bolometer Array)
(submillimeter instrument on James Clark Maxwell Telescope)

SCUBA (for Submillimetre Common-user Bolometer Array) is the name of two instruments (SCUBA-1 and SCUBA-2) on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii.

SCUBA-1 had 91 pixels at 450 microns and 37 pixels at 850 microns, and detected black-body radiation from dust. It was deployed in the 1990s and retired in 2005.

SCUBA-2 has 5120 array elements (transition edge sensors) at each of the same two wavelengths, and was deployed in November 2011. It was used to carry out the SCUBA-2 All Sky Survey (aka SCUBA-2 Ambitions Sky Survey or SASSy), a survey of the northern sky with an angular resolution of 14 arcseconds.


(instrument,submillimeter,infrared,Hawaii,camera,bolometer)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submillimetre_Common-User_Bolometer_Array
https://www.eaobservatory.org/jcmt/instrumentation/continuum/scuba-2/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1990LIACo..29..353G/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1998SPIE.3357..305H/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013MNRAS.430.2513H/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017MNRAS.468..250N/abstract

Referenced by pages:
AMUSE²
angular resolution
James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT)
JINGLE
submillimeter astronomy
transition edge sensor (TES)

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