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Survey Allocations

The  tables below show the allocations awarded to the seven different surveys by the JCMT Board in the Summer of 2005. These allocations are specific to the two-year programme only.

The total awards are shown in the following table.

Survey Total hours awarded to each survey
SCUBA-2 "All Sky" Survey 500 (15.7%)
Cosmology Survey 1120 (35.1%)
Nearby Galaxies Survey 205 (6.4%)
JCMT Galactic Plane Survey 334 (10.4%)
Gould Belt Survey 508 (16%)
Spectral Line Survey 187 (6%)
Debris Disk Survey 330 (10.4%)
TOTAL 3184 (265 nights)

These awards given within each weather band are shown in the following table.

Hours awarded in CSO weather bands
Survey Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5
SCUBA-2 "All Sky" Survey 500
Cosmology Survey 490 300 330
Nearby Galaxies Survey 75 65 65
JCMT Galactic Plane Survey 334
Gould Belt Survey 70 351 87
Spectral Line Survey 187
Debris Disk Survey 60 270
TOTALS 560 (17.6%) 1120 (35.2%) 752 (23.6%) 752 (23.6%)

The table below shows how the allocations are distributed between the instruments.

Hours allocated to each survey instrument
Survey SCUBA-2 POL-2 FTS-2 HARP
SCUBA-2 "All Sky" Survey 500
Cosmology Survey 1120
Nearby Galaxies Survey 75 130
JCMT Galactic Plane Survey 284 50
Gould Belt Survey 280 82 146
Spectral Line Survey 187
Debris Disk Survey 330
TOTALS 2589 (81.3%) 82 (2.6%) 50 (1.6%) 463 (14.5%)

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Contact: Antonio Chrysostomou. Updated: Wed Feb 14 13:55:46 HST 2007

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