Continuing exploitation of UK investment in JCMT
Lead Research Organisation:
CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
Department Name: School of Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
We propose that the UK continues to play a significant role in the partnership that is now operating the James Clerk Maxwell telescope (JCMT) for the 3 year period 2018-2020 inclusive. This follows on from the very successful operation of JCMT over the past 3 years by the East Asian Observatory (EAO), along with contributions from the UK and Canada after STFC handed over ownership of the facility in early 2015.
The requested funding from STFC of £250k per year for 3 years, along with the matched funding from the Universities in this consortium, will allow the UK to become a roughly 20% partner in the facility. This contribution however will allow the UK comunity to leverage a far higher share of observing time and data from JCMT. This is becasue EAO have allocated 50% of observing time to large programmes, with a condition that these programmes must be inclusive of scientists from all the partners, namely the four EAO partner regions of China, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan, as well as the UK and Canada. The remaining 50% of time is allocated to PI projects, peer reviewed by a single TAC, roughly in proportion to financical contribution. Therefore the UK gets access to ~60% of the time for only 20% of the cost. The reason for this apparently generous model is that EAO recognise that their communities will benefit by collaborating with teh long-standing expertise available in the UK and Canadian communities.
We also request a small amount of travel funding to allow UK astronomers to spend time working with the EAO staff in Hawaii, and to attend essential JCMT meetings.
The requested funding from STFC of £250k per year for 3 years, along with the matched funding from the Universities in this consortium, will allow the UK to become a roughly 20% partner in the facility. This contribution however will allow the UK comunity to leverage a far higher share of observing time and data from JCMT. This is becasue EAO have allocated 50% of observing time to large programmes, with a condition that these programmes must be inclusive of scientists from all the partners, namely the four EAO partner regions of China, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan, as well as the UK and Canada. The remaining 50% of time is allocated to PI projects, peer reviewed by a single TAC, roughly in proportion to financical contribution. Therefore the UK gets access to ~60% of the time for only 20% of the cost. The reason for this apparently generous model is that EAO recognise that their communities will benefit by collaborating with teh long-standing expertise available in the UK and Canadian communities.
We also request a small amount of travel funding to allow UK astronomers to spend time working with the EAO staff in Hawaii, and to attend essential JCMT meetings.
Planned Impact
The JCMT has a very strong history of impact in public outreach, and this will continue.
The public has a very positive view of astronomy research which draws benefit into all science areas, and also helps to attract young people to study STEM subjects at school and University.
Because this is a collabroation with the 4 east Asian partners of taiwan, China, South Korea and Japan it enables UK Universities and scientists to develop closer ties with strong research institutions in these 4 very strong economies. There are strong opportunities for student exchange, both outward for UK students and inwards for Asian students coming to learn in the UK having seen the positive outcomes of the research being conducted.
UK Phd students and early career researchers will also have the opportunity to work with cutting edge technology, both in terms of hardware at the telescope and software in analsying the data. There is significnat opportunity for this training to result in spinout activity in other areas, for example the UK creative industries in the case of software, and for imaging technologies with the hardware.
The public has a very positive view of astronomy research which draws benefit into all science areas, and also helps to attract young people to study STEM subjects at school and University.
Because this is a collabroation with the 4 east Asian partners of taiwan, China, South Korea and Japan it enables UK Universities and scientists to develop closer ties with strong research institutions in these 4 very strong economies. There are strong opportunities for student exchange, both outward for UK students and inwards for Asian students coming to learn in the UK having seen the positive outcomes of the research being conducted.
UK Phd students and early career researchers will also have the opportunity to work with cutting edge technology, both in terms of hardware at the telescope and software in analsying the data. There is significnat opportunity for this training to result in spinout activity in other areas, for example the UK creative industries in the case of software, and for imaging technologies with the hardware.
Organisations
Publications
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(2017)
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The JCMT Gould Belt Survey: SCUBA-2 Data Reduction Methods and Gaussian Source Recovery Analysis
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The JCMT Gould Belt Survey: A First Look at the Auriga-California Molecular Cloud with SCUBA-2
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An ALMA Survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS Field: Identifying Candidate z ~ 4.5 [C II] Emitters
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The Properties of Planck Galactic Cold Clumps in the L1495 Dark Cloud
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(2018)
Catching the Next Burst: the periodic young stellar object EC 53 in Serpens Main is sharply brightening at 850 microns and at near-IR H-band and K-band
in The Astronomer's Telegram
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The MALATANG Survey: The L GAS - L IR Correlation on Sub-kiloparsec Scale in Six Nearby Star-forming Galaxies as Traced by HCN J = 4 ? 3 and HCO + J = 4 ? 3
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Pattle K
(2018)
First Observations of the Magnetic Field inside the Pillars of Creation: Results from the BISTRO Survey
in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Mairs Steve
(2018)
Sixteen month decline in the 850 micron continuum brightness of the young stellar object HOPS 358 in NGC 2068
in The Astronomer's Telegram
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in The Astrophysical Journal
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(2018)
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Juvela M
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Herschel and SCUBA-2 observations of dust emission in a sample of Planck cold clumps
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Chang Y
(2018)
SCUBA-2 Ultra Deep Imaging EAO Survey (STUDIES). II. Structural Properties and Near-infrared Morphologies of Faint Submillimeter Galaxies
in The Astrophysical Journal
Kwon J
(2018)
A First Look at BISTRO Observations of the ? Oph-A core
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(2018)
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in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Magnetic Fields toward Ophiuchus-B Derived from SCUBA-2 Polarization Measurements
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(2018)
VizieR Online Data Catalog: LDN 1495 SCUBA-2 and Herschel data (Ward-Thompson+, 2016)
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(2018)
High-resolution SMA imaging of bright submillimetre sources from the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Bakx T
(2018)
The Herschel Bright Sources (HerBS): sample definition and SCUBA-2 observations
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Johnstone D
(2018)
The JCMT Transient Survey: Stochastic and Secular Variability of Protostars and Disks In the Submillimeter Region Observed over 18 Months
in The Astrophysical Journal
Saintonge A
(2018)
JINGLE, a JCMT legacy survey of dust and gas for galaxy evolution studies - I. Survey overview and first results
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Eden D
(2019)
SCOPE: SCUBA-2 Continuum Observations of Pre-protostellar Evolution - survey description and compact source catalogue
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Rigby A
(2019)
CHIMPS: physical properties of molecular clumps across the inner Galaxy
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Soam A
(2019)
Magnetic Fields in the Infrared Dark Cloud G34.43+0.24
in The Astrophysical Journal
Rigby A. J.
(2019)
VizieR Online Data Catalog: Physical properties of CHIMPS clumps (Rigby+, 2019)
in VizieR Online Data Catalog
Eswaraiah Chakali
(2019)
Unveiling the importance of magnetic fields in the evolution of dense clumps formed at the waist of bipolar H II regions: a case study on Sh2-201 with JCMT SCUBA-2/POL-2
in arXiv e-prints
Chang Y. -Y.
(2019)
VizieR Online Data Catalog: STUDIES. II. NIR morphologies of submm galaxies (Chang+, 2018)
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(2019)
The SCUBA-2 web survey: I. Observations of CO(3-2) in hyper-luminous QSO fields
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gullberg B
(2019)
An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS field: high-resolution dust continuum morphologies and the link between sub-millimetre galaxies and spheroid formation
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Cheale R
(2019)
The SCUBA-2 Cluster Snapshot Survey - I. Catalogue of lensed galaxies and submillimetre-bright central galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Liu Tie
(2019)
Galactic continuum surveys with the new 850 micron MKID camera at the EAO/JCMT 15-m telescope
in arXiv e-prints
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(2019)
An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 CLS UDS field: Physical properties of 707 Sub-millimetre Galaxies
in arXiv e-prints
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(2019)
Submillimeter Polarization Spectrum of the Carina Nebula
in The Astrophysical Journal
Lamperti I
(2019)
JINGLE V: Dust properties of nearby galaxies derived from hierarchical Bayesian SED fitting
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Wang J
(2019)
JCMT BISTRO Survey: Magnetic Fields within the Hub-filament Structure in IC 5146
in The Astrophysical Journal
Ramasawmy J
(2019)
A flat trend of star formation rate with X-ray luminosity of galaxies hosting AGN in the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Stach S
(2019)
An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS field: source catalogue and properties
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Smith M
(2019)
JINGLE, a JCMT legacy survey of dust and gas for galaxy evolution studies: II. SCUBA-2 850 µm data reduction and dust flux density catalogues
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Pattle K
(2019)
Magnetic fields from turbulent gas motions
in Nature Astronomy
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(2019)
JCMT BISTRO Survey Observations of the Ophiuchus Molecular Cloud: Dust Grain Alignment Properties Inferred Using a Ricean Noise Model
in The Astrophysical Journal
Cheng T
(2019)
SCUBA-2 observations of candidate starbursting protoclusters selected by Planck and Herschel-SPIRE
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Xia An F
(2019)
Multi-wavelength Properties of Radio- and Machine-learning-identified Counterparts to Submillimeter Sources in S2COSMOS
in The Astrophysical Journal
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(2019)
A SCUBA-2 selected Herschel-SPIRE dropout and the nature of this population
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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(2019)
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in arXiv e-prints
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(2019)
Erratum to: The SCUBA-2 web survey: I. Observations of CO(3-2) in hyper-luminous QSO fields
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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(2019)
The East Asian Observatory SCUBA-2 Survey of the COSMOS Field: Unveiling 1147 Bright Sub-millimeter Sources across 2.6 Square Degrees
in The Astrophysical Journal