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A Decade of SCUBA-2: A Comprehensive Guide to Calibrating 450 m and 850 m Continuum Data at the JCMT
Steve Mairs, Jessica T. Dempsey, Graham S. Bell +24
The Submillimetre Common User Bolometer Array 2 (SCUBA-2) is the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope's continuum imager, operating simultaneously at 450 and 850~m. SCUBA-2 was commiss…
Implementing Remote Observing at the JCMT
Harriet Parsons, Jessica Dempsey, Dan Bintley +18
The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) is the largest single dish telescope in the world focused on sub-millimeter astronomy - and it remains at the forefront of sub-millimeter d…
Commissioning of Namakanui on the JCMT
Izumi Mizuno, Per Friberg, Ryan Berthold +39
Namakanui is an instrument containing three inserts in an ALMA type Dewar. The three inserts are Alaihi, Uu and Aweoweo operating around 86, 230 and 345GHz. The receiver is being c…
Automated Project Completion Forecasting
Alexandra J. Tetarenko, Harriet Parsons, Sarah Graves +1
In the age of Large Programs and Big Data a key component in project planning for ground-based astronomical observatories is understanding how to balance users demands and telescop…
The JCMT Transient Survey: Data Reduction and Calibration Methods
Steve Mairs, James Lane, Doug Johnstone +7
Though there has been a significant amount of work investigating the early stages of low-mass star formation in recent years, the evolution of the mass assembly rate onto the centr…
Design and Implementation of the wvrgcal Program
Bojan Nikolic, Sarah F. Graves, Rosie C. Bolton +1
This memo describes the software engineering and technical details of the design and implementation of the wvrgcal program and associated libraries. This program performs off-line…