Friday, 1st August at 2.00pm at the JAC

ABSTRACT: New results from two "second generation" sub-mm continuum instruments will be presented: AzTEC, a 1.1mm camera which operated on the JCMT in late 2005; and BLAST, a balloon-borne telescope which conducted a series of galactic and extra-galactic surveys during flights in 2005 (Sweden) and 2006 (Antarctica) using a prototype of the 250, 350 and 500 micron camera SPIRE for Herschel. My target audience is anyone who is interested in how sub-mm continuum mapping has progressed since the death of SCUBA. I will present an AzTEC map of GOODS-N (a larger field centred on the SCUBA map of the HDF-N by Hughes et al. 1998), and BLAST maps of both galactic and extra-galactic fields (over 50 sqr deg!). I will describe in some detail how we produced maps from these data sets, with an emphasis on techniques that will be applicable to SCUBA-2.