The SCUBA-2 "All-Sky" Survey
/ Authors
M. Thompson, S. Serjeant, T. Jenness, D. Scott, M. Ashdown, C. Brunt, H. Butner, E. Chapin, A. Chrysostomou, J. Clark
and 38 more authors
D. Clements, J. Collett, K. Coppin, I. Coulson, W. Dent, F. Economou, A. Evans, P. Friberg, G. Fuller, A. Gibb, J. Greaves, J. Hatchell, W. Holland, M. Hudson, R. Ivison, A. Jaffe, G. Joncas, H. Jones, J. Knapen, J. Leech, R. Mann, H. Matthews, T. Moore, A. Mortier, M. Negrello, D. Nutter, M. Pestalozzi, A. Pope, J. Richer, R. Shipman, J. Urquhart, Mattia Vaccari, L. Waerbeke, S. Viti, B. Weferling, G. White, J. Wouterloot, M. Zhu
/ Abstract
– 5 –1. Introduction: The JCMT Legacy SurveysThe James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) is in the process of upgrading itsinstrument suite to include the new wide-field bolometer camera SCUBA-2 (the Sub-mmCommon-User Bolometer Array 2; Holland et al. 2006). The radically new set of detectorsat the heart of SCUBA-2 and its large instantaneous field of view (50 square arcminintes)gives SCUBA-2 a mapping speed some three orders of magnitude larger than its predecessorSCUBA. This vast increase in mapping speed will bring about a new era of wide-fieldsub-millimetre astronomy and finally brings about the possibility of deep (tenss of mJy)surveys encompassing significant fractions of the sky. Recognising the unique capabilitiesof SCUBA-2 and the new heterodyne array HARP-B (Smith et al. 2003) the JCMT Boardcalled upon the JCMT community to identify and propose an innovative programme oflarge-scale Legacy Surveys. The JCMT Legacy Survey Programme
Journal: arXiv: Astrophysics