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SCUBA-2

Over the past decade the UK has established itself as a world leader in submillimetre astronomy with access to the best telescope facilities and the most advanced instrumentation.

In particular, the SCUBA bolometer camera, in conjunction with the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii (JCMT), has completely revolutionised this previously unexplored area of astronomy.

SCUBA-2 seeks to capitalise on this success by providing the JCMT  community with a state-of-the-art, wide-field camera giving unprecedented sensitivity and imaging power with a much larger field-of-view and sky-background limited sensitivity SCUBA-2 will map large areas of sky up to 1000 times faster than the current SCUBA camera.
All areas of astronomy will benefit, from studies of our Solar System and surveys of protostellar complexes in the Milky Way, to answering key questions about the formation and evolution of galaxies in the early Universe. Future submillimetre interferometers (JCMT+SMA and ALMA) will require their own surveys.SCUBA-2 will provide this essential wide-field complement.

500 niobium titanium wires encapsulated in an hermetic  feed-through  and terminated onto 5 x 100 way micro D connectors.

Finally, SCUBA-2 represents a strategic investment for PPARC in new technology (superconducting detector arrays) that has potential applications not only in other areas of astronomy but also in industry.
With a much larger field-of-view and sky-background limited sensitivity, SCUBA 2 will map large areas of sky up to 1000 times faster than the current SCUBA camera.All areas of astronomy will benefit, from studies of our Solar System and surveys of protostellar complexes in the Milky Way, to answering key questions about the formation and evolution of galaxies in the early Universe. SCUBA 2 represents a major innovation from current submillimetre instruments.Incorporating state-of-the-art technology will allow the realisation of the first large-format "CCD-like" camera for submillimetre astronomy.
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