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SASSy is one of the major "legacy surveys" on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope.http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/JCMT/surveys/ It is the second-largest such legacy survey in terms of time on this telescope, and in terms of notional facility time is "worth" over £1 million.


SCIENTIFIC GOALS OF SASSY

This project seeks to answer the following questions:
  • Is there an undiscovered population of extreme luminosity galaxies?

  • What are the number counts of bright sub-mm galaxies?

  • What is the fraction of lensed sub-mm sources?

  • Is there an undiscovered population of cold local galaxies?

  • How many infrared dark clouds are there in our Galaxy and how are they distributed?

  • What is the relation of infrared dark clouds to star formation and Galactic structure?

  • Is there an underlying unknown population of star formation?

  • What is the fraction of clustered vs isolated star formation?

  • What is the answer to the distributed T-Tauri problem?

  • This project will also assist in the foreground subtraction and calibration of the Plank Microwave Background satellite.http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/area/index.cfm?fareaid=17



INSTITUTIONS INVOLVED

The project was led initially by Dr. Mark Thompson and Dr. Stephen Serjeant ( University Of Hertfordshire and Open University respectively), now expanded to a four-person co-ordinating team with the addition of Dr. Timothy Jenness and Prof. Douglas Scott ( Joint Astronomy Centre , Hawaii, and University Of British Columbia respectively).

The following institutions are represented in SASSy:


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REFERENCES

# SASSy homepage
# Legacy Surveys page at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope