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15 - General Engineering
University of Edinburgh (joint submission with Heriot-Watt University)
SCUBA-2: The 10000 pixel bolometer camera on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
SCUBA-2, the largest submillimetre-wavelength (450 and 850 microns) wide-field bolometric camera is most sensitive to cold gas and dust enabling study of primeval galaxies and planet formation. This multi-nationally co-authored paper provides the primary reference (www.jach.hawaii.edu/JCMT/continuum/scuba2/scuba2_references.html). Edinburgh Engineering was key to the design and fabrication of the micromachined detector (SCUBA2.wordpress.com) and its integration with the SQUID readout (ian.robson@stfc.ac.uk). The 5,120 pixel SCUBA-2 replaced the 128 pixel SCUBA-1 (the second most cited telescope after Hubble). Since it’s commissioning, SCUBA-2’s major impact with ~100 international astronomers, has been in exploiting “the immense increase in mapping speed, fidelity and sensitivity of SCUBA-2” (www.jach.hawaii.edu/JCMT/surveys/Cosmology.html).
