The SCUBA Legacy Catalogues: Submillimetre Continuum Objects Detected by SCUBA

We present the SCUBA Legacy Catalogues, two comprehensive sets of continuum maps (and catalogues) using data at 850 μm and 450 μm of the various astronomical objects obtained with the Submillimetre Common User Bolometer Array (SCUBA). The Fundamental Map Dataset contains data only where superior atmospheric opacity calibration data were available. The Extended Map Dataset is comprised of data regardless of the quality of the opacity calibration. Each Dataset contains 1.2 × 1.2 maps at locations where data existed in the JCMT archive, imaged using the matrix inversion method. The Fundamental Dataset is comprised of 1423 maps at 850 μm and 1357 maps at 450 μm. The Extended Dataset is comprised of 1547 maps at 850 μm. Neither Dataset includes high sensitivity, single chop SCUBA maps of “cosmological fields” nor solar system objects. Each Dataset was used to determine a respective Object Catalogue, consisting of objects identified within the respective 850 μm maps using an automated identification algorithm. The Fundamental and Extended Map Object Catalogues contain 5061 and 6118 objects respectively. Objects are named based on their respective J2000 position of peak 850 μm intensity. The Catalogues provide for each object the respective maximum 850 μm intensity, estimates of total 850 μm flux and size, and tentative identifications from the SIMBAD Database. Where possible, the Catalogues also provide for each object its maximum 450 μm intensity and total 450 μm flux, and flux ratios. National Research Council of Canada, Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, 5071 West Saanich Road, Victoria, BC, V9E 2E7, Canada Department of Physics & Astronomy, Elliot Bldg., 3800 Finnerty Road, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, V8P 5C2, Canada Department of Physics, University of Prince Edward Island, 550 University Avenue, Charlottetown, PE, C1A 4P3, Canada Department of Physics, Ernest Rutherford Physics Bldg., McGill University, 3600 rue University, Montréal, QC, H3A 2T8, Canada