{"id":3818,"date":"2015-11-23T08:24:32","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T18:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/?page_id=3818"},"modified":"2020-09-09T10:40:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T20:40:47","slug":"studies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/science\/large-programs\/studies\/","title":{"rendered":"STUDIES: SCUBA-2 Ultra Deep Imaging EAO Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"

STUDIES<\/strong> and\u00a0STUDIES-SXDS<\/strong>\u00a0are the deep cosmological component of the new JCMT Large Programs. The goal is to detect the typical members in the dusty galaxy population that gives rise to the far-IR extragalactic background light, and to study the far-IR properties of the optically selected galaxy populations. This will be achieved by taking advantage of the best weather on Maunakea, the high angular resolution of JCMT at 450 \u03bcm, and the fast mapping speed of SCUBA-2.<\/p>\n

The program has been allocated 330 hr on SCUBA-2 under grade-1 weather, to obtain an ultra deep, confusion limited 450 \u03bcm image in the COSMOS-CANDELS region:<\/p>\n

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Proposed pointing of STUDIES (red circles). The large yellow circle indicates the primary beam of the ultra deep (rms ~ 0.5 \u03bcJy) VLA S-band survey (PI: J. Hodge). The background picture is the CANDELS WFC3 F160W image. North is left. The Green contour indicates the final area coverage of the two Daisy pointings in the S2CLS. The inner (solid) red circle indicates the central D = 3\u02b9 region where STUDIES will reach an rms of 0.57 mJy. The outer (dashed) red circle indicates the outer area of the Daisy map where the sensitivity is \u2272 1 mJy.<\/p><\/div>\n

We will make a single Daisy map to cover an R = 1\u02b9.5 area with \u03c3 ~ 0.57 mJy and a wider R ~ 5\u02b9 outer area with \u03c3 \u2272 1 mJy. This will lead to the 2 mJy (3.5 \u03c3) confusion limit at 3.5 \u03c3 in the deep area, while simultaneously deepening the outer regions of the 450 \u03bcm pointings previously imaged in the S2CLS. The new map will:<\/p>\n