Observing with SCUBA-2

Overview of SCUBA-2

• SCUBA-2 project summary
• SCUBA-2 Blog - SCUBA-2 news blog
• UK ATC SCUBA-2 homepage
• Cryostat window, filter and dichroic - specification and measurements
  

Calculating integration times

• Observing Modes with SCUBA-2
  
• Integration time calculator
  
• SCUBA-2 integration time formulae
  

Setting up your MSBs

• Main JCMT OT primer
• Preparing SCUBA-2 MSBs

Data Reduction

• The SMURF SCUBA-2 Data Analysis Cookbook
  
• Pipeline & Archives Blog - the latest in JCMT data pipeline development
  
• Picard Manual - pipeline for combining and analyzing reduced data
  

Commissioning

• SCUBA-2 Polarimeter
• SCUBA-2 Fourier Transform Spectrometer

Calibration

• Primary Continuum Calibration - Uranus, Neptune & Mars : use of fluxes & fluxnow
• Secondary calibrators - our small sample: established using SCUBA

Previous continuum receivers:
SCUBA
UKT14
Thumper