{"id":10118,"date":"2019-10-05T07:07:24","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T17:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/?p=10118"},"modified":"2020-12-23T15:22:27","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T01:22:27","slug":"first-light-with-new-jcmt-receiver-uu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/2019\/10\/first-light-with-new-jcmt-receiver-uu\/","title":{"rendered":"First Light with new JCMT receiver `\u016a`\u016b"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to both ASIAA and JCMT staff! We achieved first light with our receiver `\u016a`\u016b on Friday, October 4th, 2019. `\u016a`\u016b is part of the N\u0101makanui instrument and works at wavelengths around 1.2mm. Our first observation was taken of CRL2688, a bright sub-mm source between a red giant and planetary nebulae.<\/p>\n<p>Na\u0304makanui has been offered to JCMT users for single dish observing, initially at 230GHz and later at 345GHz.`\u016a`\u016b is a dual polarization 2-sideband receiver with up to 8GHz of bandwidth (less when using ACSIS). `\u016a`\u016b will be much faster than Rx3Am (which was retired in June 2018) for similar observations. The JCMT Heterodyne Integration Time Calculator <a href=\"https:\/\/proposals.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/calculator\/heterodyne\/\">https:\/\/proposals.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/calculator\/heterodyne\/<\/a> has been updated for `\u016a`\u016b observing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10119 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Uu_First_Light.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"680\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">-20191005<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to both ASIAA and JCMT staff! We achieved first light with our receiver `\u016a`\u016b on Friday, October 4th, 2019. `\u016a`\u016b is part of the N\u0101makanui instrument and works at wavelengths around 1.2mm. Our first observation was taken of CRL2688, a bright sub-mm source between a red giant and planetary\u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/2019\/10\/first-light-with-new-jcmt-receiver-uu\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":10119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10122,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10118\/revisions\/10122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}