SCUBA: The submiilimetre common-user bolometer array for the James Clerk Maxwell telescope

Colin R. Cunningham; Walter K. Gear; William D. Duncan; Peter R. Hastings; Wayne S. Holland

doi:10.1117/12.176772

SCUBA: The submiilimetre common-user bolometer array for the James Clerk Maxwell telescope

Colin R. Cunningham, Walter K. Gear, William D. Duncan, Peter R. Hastings, Wayne S. Holland

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We describe the design and manufacture of SCUBA, which is undergoing laboratory testing prior to commissioning on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. It contains two arrays, one of 91 pixels optimised for 4S0 urn and the second of 37 pixels optimised for 850 urn in close-packed arrays, with each pixel having diffraction-limited angular resolution. Some of the original design features of the instrument are described: the cryogenic system operating at lOOmK; the optical layout; bolometer manufacture; and array integration. We illustrate the performance of the instrument with test results obtained during the laboratory commissioning.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	638-649
Number of pages	12
Journal	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	2198
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.176772
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 1994
Externally published	Yes
Event	Instrumentation in Astronomy VIII 1994 - Kailua, Kona, United States Duration: 13 Mar 1994 → 18 Mar 1994

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