Publications (35)
Attitude determination for balloon-borne experiments
N. N. Gandilo, P. A. R. Ade, M. Amiri +64
An attitude determination system for balloon-borne experiments is presented. The system provides pointing information in azimuth and elevation for instruments flying on stratospher…
The JCMT Gould Belt Survey: First results from the SCUBA-2 observations of the Ophiuchus molecular cloud and a virial analysis of its prestellar core population
K. Pattle, D. Ward-Thompson, J. M. Kirk +59
In this paper we present the first observations of the Ophiuchus molecular cloud performed as part of the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) Gould Belt Survey (GBS) with the SCUB…
The JCMT Gould Belt Survey: A Quantitative Comparison Between SCUBA-2 Data Reduction Methods
S. Mairs, D. Johnstone, H. Kirk +18
Performing ground-based submillimetre observations is a difficult task as the measurements are subject to absorption and emission from water vapour in the Earth's atmosphere and ti…
The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry-BLASTPol: Performance and results from the 2012 Antarctic flight
N. Galitzki, P. A. R. Ade, F. E. Angilé +22
The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry (BLASTPol) is a suborbital mapping experiment, designed to study the role played by magnetic fields in the…
Comparison of Prestellar Core Elongations and Large-Scale Molecular Cloud Structures in the Lupus I Region
F. Poidevin, P. A. R. Ade, F. E. Angile +28
Turbulence and magnetic fields are expected to be important for regulating molecular cloud formation and evolution. However, their effects on subparsec to 100 parsec scales, leadin…
The JCMT Gould Belt Survey: A First Look at IC 5146
D. Johnstone, S. Ciccone, H. Kirk +53
We present 450 and 850 micron submillimetre continuum observations of the IC5146 star-forming region taken as part of the JCMT Gould Belt Survey. We investigate the location of bri…
The SCUBA-2 "All-Sky" Survey
M. A. Thompson, S. Serjeant, T. Jenness +45
The sub-millimetre wavelength regime is perhaps the most poorly explored over large areas of the sky, despite the considerable effort that has been expended in making deep maps ove…
The JCMT Gould Belt Survey: A First Look at Dense Cores in Orion B
H. Kirk, J. Di Francesco, D. Johnstone +54
We present a first look at the SCUBA-2 observations of three sub-regions of the Orion B molecular cloud: LDN 1622, NGC 2023/2024, and NGC 2068/2071, from the JCMT Gould Belt Legacy…
The JCMT Legacy Survey of the Gould Belt: mapping 13CO and C18O in Orion A
J. V. Buckle, C. J. Davis, J. Di Francesco +31
The Gould Belt Legacy Survey will map star-forming regions within 500 pc, using HARP (Heterodyne Array Receiver Programme), SCUBA-2 (Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array 2) an…
Herschel view of the Taurus B211/3 filament and striations: Evidence of filamentary growth?
P. Palmeirim, Ph. André, J. Kirk +23
We present first results from the Herschel Gould Belt survey for the B211/L1495 region in the Taurus molecular cloud. Thanks to their high sensitivity and dynamic range, the Hersch…
The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope Legacy Survey of Nearby Star-forming Regions in the Gould Belt
D. Ward-Thompson, J. Di Francesco, J. Hatchell +59
This paper describes a James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) legacy survey that has been awarded roughly 500 hrs of observing time to be carried out from 2007 to 2009. In this surve…
A SCUBA survey of Orion, the low-mass end of the core mass function
D. Nutter, D. Ward-Thompson
We have re-analysed all of the SCUBA archive data of the Orion star-forming regions. We have put together all of the data taken at different times by different groups. Consequently…
The JCMT Gould Belt Survey: SCUBA-2 observations of radiative feedback in NGC1333
J. Hatchell, T. Wilson, E. Drabek +5
We present observations of NGC1333 from SCUBA-2 on JCMT, observed as a JCMT Gould Belt Survey pilot project during the shared risk campaign when the first of four arrays was instal…
SCUBA and Spitzer observations of the Taurus molecular cloud - pulling the bull's tail
D. Nutter, J. M. Kirk, D. Stamatellos +1
We present continuum data from the Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array (SCUBA) on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT), and the Mid-Infrared Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS)…
The JCMT Gould Belt Survey: A First Look at the Auriga-California Molecular Cloud with SCUBA-2
H. Broekhoven-Fiene, B. C. Matthews, P. Harvey +57
We present 850 and 450 micron observations of the dense regions within the Auriga-California molecular cloud using SCUBA-2 as part of the JCMT Gould Belt Legacy Survey to identify…
The JCMT Gould Belt Survey: Evidence for radiative heating and contamination in the W40 complex
D. Rumble, J. Hatchell, K. Pattle +55
We present SCUBA-2 450μm and 850μm observations of the W40 complex in the Serpens-Aquila region as part of the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) Gould Belt Survey (GBS) of nea…
Thermal design and performance of the balloon-borne large aperture submillimeter telescope for polarimetry BLASTPol
J. D. Soler, P. A. R. Ade, F. E. Angilè +25
We present the thermal model of the Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry (BLASTPol). This instrument was successfully flown in two circumpolar fligh…
The initial conditions of isolated star formation -- IX. Akari mapping of an externally heated pre-stellar core
D. Nutter, D. Stamatellos, D. Ward-Thompson
We present observations of L1155 and L1148 in the Cepheus molecular cloud, taken using the FIS instrument on the Akari satellite. We compare these data to submillimetre data taken…
The initial conditions of isolated star formation - X. A suggested evolutionary diagram for prestellar cores
R. J. Simpson, D. Johnstone, D. Nutter +2
We propose an evolutionary path for prestellar cores on the radius-mass diagram, which is analogous to stellar evolutionary paths on the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram. Using James Cl…
Looking into the hearts of Bok globules: MM and submm continuum images of isolated star-forming cores
R. Launhardt, D. Nutter, D. Ward-Thompson +6
We present the results of a comprehensive infrared, submillimetre, and millimetre continuum emission study of isolated low-mass star-forming cores in 32 Bok globules, with the aim…
SCUBA observations of the Horsehead Nebula - what did the horse swallow?
D. Ward-Thompson, D. Nutter, S. Bontemps +2
We present observations taken with SCUBA on the JCMT of the Horsehead Nebula in Orion (B33), at wavelengths of 450 and 850 \mum. We see bright emission from that part of the cloud…
The Herschel and JCMT Gould Belt Surveys: Constraining Dust Properties in the Perseus B1 Clump with PACS, SPIRE, and SCUBA-2
S. I. Sadavoy, J. Di Francesco, D. Johnstone +27
We present Herschel observations from the Herschel Gould Belt Survey and SCUBA-2 science verification observations from the JCMT Gould Belt Survey of the B1 clump in the Perseus mo…
The JCMT Legacy Survey of the Gould Belt: a first look at Taurus with HARP
C. J. Davis, A. Chrysostomou, J. Hatchell +31
As part of a JCMT Legacy Survey of star formation in the Gould Belt, we present early science results for Taurus. CO J=3-2 maps have been secured along the north-west ridge and bow…
The JCMT Legacy Survey of the Gould Belt: a first look at Serpens with HARP
S. F. Graves, J. S. Richer, J. V. Buckle +32
The Gould Belt Legacy Survey (GBS) on the JCMT has observed a region of 260 square arcminutes in 12CO J=3--2 emission, and a 190 square arcminute subset of this in 13CO and C18O to…
The initial conditions of star formation VIII: an observational study of the Ophiuchus cloud L1688 and implications for the prestellar core mass function
R. J. Simpson, D. Nutter, D. Ward-Thompson
We re-analyse all of the archive observations of the Ophiuchus dark cloud L1688 that were carried out with the submillimetre common-user bolometer array (SCUBA) at the James Clerk…
The JCMT Gould Belt Survey: A First Look at Southern Orion A with SCUBA-2
Steve Mairs, D. Johnstone, H. Kirk +52
We present the JCMT Gould Belt Survey's first look results of the southern extent of the Orion A Molecular Cloud (). Employing a two-step struc…
The JCMT Gould Belt Survey: SCUBA-2 observations of circumstellar disks in L 1495
J. V. Buckle, E. Drabek-Maunder, J. Greaves +51
We present 850m and 450m data from the JCMT Gould Belt Survey obtained with SCUBA-2 and characterise the dust attributes of Class I, Class II and Class III disk sources in…
BLASTbus electronics: general-purpose readout and control for balloon-borne experiments
S. J. Benton, P. A. Ade, M. Amiri +66
We present the second generation BLASTbus electronics. The primary purposes of this system are detector readout, attitude control, and cryogenic housekeeping, for balloon-borne tel…
The JCMT Legacy Survey of the Gould Belt: a first look at Orion B with HARP
J. V. Buckle, E. I. Curtis, J. F. Roberts +30
The Gould Belt Legacy Survey will survey nearby star-forming regions (within 500 pc), using HARP (Heterodyne Array Receiver Programme), SCUBA-2 (Submillimetre Common- User Bolomete…
Molecular line contamination in the SCUBA-2 450 μm and 850 μm continuum data
E. Drabek, J. Hatchell, P. Friberg +6
Observations of the dust emission using millimetre/submillimetre bolometer arrays can be contaminated by molecular line flux, such as flux from 12CO. As the brightest molecular lin…
The JCMT Gould Belt Survey: Dense Core Clusters in Orion B
H. Kirk, D. Johnstone, J. Di Francesco +17
The JCMT Gould Belt Legacy Survey obtained SCUBA-2 observations of dense cores within three sub-regions of Orion B: LDN 1622, NGC 2023/2024, and NGC 2068/2071, all of which contain…
The JCMT Gould Belt Survey: Evidence for Dust Grain Evolution in Perseus Star-forming Clumps
Michael Chun-Yuan Chen, J. Di Francesco, D. Johnstone +56
The dust emissivity spectral index, , is a critical parameter for deriving the mass and temperature of star-forming structures, and consequently their gravitational stability.…
The JCMT Gould Belt Survey: Evidence for radiative heating in Serpens MWC 297 and its influence on local star formation
D. Rumble, J. Hatchell, R. A. Gutermuth +61
We present SCUBA-2 450micron and 850micron observations of the Serpens MWC 297 region, part of the JCMT Gould Belt Survey of nearby star-forming regions. Simulations suggest that r…
A SCUBA survey of L1689 - The dog that didn't bark
D. Nutter, D. Ward-Thompson, P. Andre
We present submillimetre data for the L1689 cloud in the rho-Ophiuchi molecular cloud complex. We detect a number of starless and prestellar cores and protostellar envelopes. We al…
Optical and submillimetre observations of Bok globules -- tracing the magnetic field from low to high density
D. Ward-Thompson, A. K. Sen, J. M. Kirk +1
We present optical and submillimetre polarimetry data of the Bok globule CB3 and optical polarimetry data of the Bok globule CB246. We use each set of polarimetry data to infer the…