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SCUBA Legacy Fundamental and Extended Map Object Catalogs

Published by High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Metadata Last Checked: September 17, 2025 | Last Modified: 2025-09-10
This table contains the SCUBA Legacy Catalogs, two comprehensive sets of source catalogs using data at 850 and 450um of the various astronomical objects obtained with the Submillimetre Common User Bolometer Array (SCUBA) on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT). The Fundamental Map Data Set contains data only where superior atmospheric opacity calibration data were available. The Extended Map Data Set contains data regardless of the quality of the opacity calibration. Each data set contains 1.2 degrees x 1.2 degrees maps at locations where data existed in the JCMT archive, imaged using the matrix inversion method. The Fundamental Data Set is composed of 1423 maps at 850um and 1357 maps at 450um. The Extended Data Set is composed of 1547 maps at 850um. Neither data set includes high sensitivity, single-chop SCUBA maps of "cosmological fields" nor solar system objects. Each data set was used to determine a respective object catalog, consisting of objects identified within the respective 850um maps using an automated identification algorithm. The Fundamental and Extended Map Object Catalogs contain 5061 and 6118 objects, respectively. Objects are named based on their respective J2000.0 position of peak 850um intensity. The catalogs provide for each object the respective maximum 850um intensity, estimates of total 850um flux and size, and tentative identifications from the SIMBAD Database. Where possible, the catalogs also provide for each object its maximum 450um intensity and total 450um flux and flux ratios. Since the goal of this project was to make maps and then catalog objects therein, all raw jiggle and scan data from SCUBA available in the JCMT archive were downloaded from the CADC in 2006 May. (Photometry and polarimetry data were ignored.) A full description of the instrumental characteristics of SCUBA was made by Holland et al. (1999MNRAS.303..659H). All maps are available at <a href="http://www3.cadc-ccda.hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/community/scubalegacy/">http://www3.cadc-ccda.hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/community/scubalegacy/</a> This table was created by the HEASARC in December 2010 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/ApJS/175/277">CDS catalog J/ApJS/175/277</a> files table2.dat and table3.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

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