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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…
Electronics Instrumentation for the Greenland Telescope
Derek Kubo, Chih-Chiang Han, Hiroaki Nishioka +37
The Greenland Telescope project has recently participated in an experiment to image the supermassive black hole shadow at the center of M87 using Very Long Baseline Interferometry…
SCUBA-2: on-sky calibration using submillimetre standard sources
Jessica T. Dempsey, Per Friberg, Tim Jenness +11
SCUBA-2 is a 10000-bolometer submillimetre camera on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT). The instrument commissioning was completed in September 2011, and full science operat…