SCUBA-2: The Submillimeter Common User Bolometer Array - 2

Many Canadian astronomers are involved in plans to create SCUBA-2 (see the SCUBA-2 Home Page at the Astronomy Technology Centre in Edinburgh), a camera designed to work at submillimeter wavelengths that will be installed on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope. This will replace the very successful first generation bolometer camera SCUBA. The original SCUBA imaged the sky at submillimeter wavelengths several thousand times faster than any previous instrument of comparable resolution and is still the premier instrument in the world for this kind of work. SCUBA-2 will provide a comparable increase in speed and sensititivity over SCUBA!

Information relevant to this project:

• Members of the Canadian Consortium
• The Steering Committee of the Canadian Consortium
• An overview of SCUBA-2
• SCUBA-2 posters and presentations
• SCUBA-2 in the news
• SCUBA-2 newsletters
• publications (professional journals) about SCUBA-2
• Link to the Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS) work package web pages
• Link to the Polarimeter work package web pages
• Link to the Software work package web pages
• Link to the Warm Electronics work package web pages
• Link to the Detector work package web pages
• Link to the UBC Database (Card Testing Tracking)

The confidential webpages of the Canadian Consortium (password protected)

last update: October 7, 2003

for correction and comments, please email dsummers@astro.uwaterloo.ca