{"id":174,"date":"2014-11-12T23:52:05","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T23:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/?page_id=174"},"modified":"2019-11-04T12:24:57","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T22:24:57","slug":"continuum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/instrumentation\/continuum\/","title":{"rendered":"Continuum receivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The continuum receiver at the JCMT is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/instrumentation\/continuum\/scuba-2\/\">SCUBA-2<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/instrumentation\/continuum\/scuba-2\/pol-2\/\">POL-2<\/a> is an ancillary instrument to SCUBA-2.<\/p>\n<p>The current <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/instrumentation#status\">status<\/a> of SCUBA-2.<\/p>\n<h4>Future receivers<\/h4>\n<p>The specifications of a proposed 850 micron MKID continuum imager were provided at the EAO Submillimetre Futures meeting in Nanjing, China in May, 2019. The document is available here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Guide-to-the-new-850um-MKID-camera-performance.pdf\">Guide to the new 850um MKID camera performance<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Members of the JCMT community have written a series of white papers discussing the impact of this new instrument on a variety of fields including: Transient Studies, High-z Submillimetre Galaxies, Polarisation Mapping, and Evolved Star studies. These documents, along with a summary of each paper, are available here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/EAOSubmmFuturesWPs.pdf\">EAO Submillimetre Futures White Paper Series (and summary)<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Retired receivers<\/h4>\n<p>In the science archive one can find data obtained with a number of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/instrumentation\/continuum\/retired\/\">retired receivers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The continuum receiver at the JCMT is SCUBA-2. POL-2 is an ancillary instrument to SCUBA-2. The current status of SCUBA-2. Future receivers The specifications of a proposed 850 micron MKID continuum imager were provided at the EAO Submillimetre Futures meeting in Nanjing, China in May, 2019. The document is available\u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/instrumentation\/continuum\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":134,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10391,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/174\/revisions\/10391"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}