{"id":1959,"date":"2015-02-18T14:16:21","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T00:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/?page_id=1959"},"modified":"2019-12-27T17:07:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T03:07:19","slug":"gbs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/science\/legacy-survey\/gbs\/","title":{"rendered":"GBS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"JLSlogo\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"gb_logo_small\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Gould Belt Survey<\/h2>\n

The Gould Belt Legacy Survey (GBS) is using three JCMT survey instruments (SCUBA-2, HARP and POL-2) to survey nearby star-forming regions (D < 500 pc). The survey includes the best known Gould’s Belt clouds – Orion, Taurus, Perseus, Serpens and Ophiuchus – as well as less well-studied local star-forming regions, and complements similar Gould Belt surveys with the Spitzer<\/i> and Herschel<\/i> space telescopes. The SCUBA-2 targets are half-degree regions preselected on Herschel 500 micron emission to provide a deep, uniform 450\/850 micron survey. The HARP observations focus on subregions of the same clouds in 12<\/sup>CO, 13<\/sup>CO and C18<\/sup>O. The polarisation component of the survey is awaiting POL-2 commissioning. The science goals of the GBS are:<\/p>\n