Oral Presentation

Future receivers and instrumentation for JCMT

Author(s): Dan Bintley (EAO) Per Friberg (EAO)

Presenter: Dan Bintley (East Asian Observatory - JCMT)

The EAO's James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) provides the East Asian Region with a premier facility for deep wide-field mapping of the universe in the sub-millimetre and far infrared, that includes the capability for simultaneous 2 colour continuum imaging, polarimetry, heterodyne observing at 230 GHz and 345 GHz and VLBI as part of the EHT. We discus plans to upgrade and replace the existing suit of instruments at JCMT, including: - A new generation, state of the art multi-receptor heterodyne array, to replace HARP (a 16-receptor 345 GHz array receiver). A new sideband separating dual polarization 230 GHz receiver. And new KID arrays for SCUBA-2. A replacement for HARP and an upgraded SCUBA-2 would potentially increase mapping speeds at 345 Ghz (850um) by an order of magnitude. Our goal is to enlist the regions' expertise in receiver and instrument design, to solve the many technical challenges required to implement these ambitious plans.