{"id":917,"date":"2015-01-07T14:01:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T00:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/?page_id=917"},"modified":"2016-10-25T16:40:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T02:40:17","slug":"itc","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/instrumentation\/continuum\/scuba-2\/itc\/","title":{"rendered":"SCUBA-2 Integration Time Calculator"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The SCUBA-2 Integration Time Calculator (ITC) \u2013 is web-based tool for calculating required integration times for SCUBA-2 observations. The Integration Time Calculator can be accessed via the following links:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/proposals.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/calculator\/scuba2\/time\">Time required for target RMS<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>In this mode you can enter your desired sensitivity (<span class=\"formula\">1<i>\u03c3<\/i><\/span> RMS in mJy\/beam) and the wavelength. The calculator will estimate the time required to reach this sensitivity and will also show the sensitivity which would be reached in this time at SCUBA-2\u2019s other wavelength.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/proposals.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/calculator\/scuba2\/rms\">RMS expected in given time<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>In this mode you can enter the total observing time in hours. The calculator will estimate the sensitivity which would be achieved in each of SCUBA-2\u2019s wavelengths.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The help for the SCUBA-2 Integration time calculator can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/proposals.eaobservatory.org\/help\/user\/calculation_scuba2\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SCUBA-2 Integration Time Calculator (ITC) \u2013 is web-based tool for calculating required integration times for SCUBA-2 observations. The Integration Time Calculator can be accessed via the following links: Time required for target RMS In this mode you can enter your desired sensitivity (1\u03c3 RMS in mJy\/beam) and the wavelength.\u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/instrumentation\/continuum\/scuba-2\/itc\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":176,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/917"}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3390,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/917\/revisions\/3390"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}