Documentation on skydips at the JCMT

There are some documents on the the subject of measuring the Sky Opacity with SCUBA. The following list engrosses no completeness.

• Calculating Sky Opacities: a re-analysis for SCUBA data by Elese N. Archibald, Jeff W. Wagg & Tim Jennes. A full description of how Sky Opacities can be calculated.

• On the atmospheric limitations of ground-based submillimetre astronomy using array receivers by E.N. Archibald, T. Jenness, W.S. Holland, I.M. Coulson, N.E. Jessop, J.A. Stevens, E.I. Robson, R.P.J. Tilanus, W.D. Duncan and J.F. Lightfoot

• The equivalence of discrete and raster skydips by Iain Coulson. A comparison between the two method of skydips.

• Comparison of Discrete Skydips and Rasterdips by Bernd Weferling. Another comparison, one year after.

• Estimated Variance for SCUBA Skydip Measurements by Firmin Olivera and Iain Coulson. An analysis of the fitting algortihm.