Extinction correction and on-sky calibration of SCUBA-2

Commissioning of SCUBA-2 included a program of skydips and observations of calibration sources intended tobe folded into regular observing as standard methods of source flux calibration and to monitor the atmosphericopacity and stability. During commissioning, it was found that these methods could also be utilised to characterisethe fundamental instrument response to sky noise and astronomical signals. Novel techniques for analysing onskyperformance and atmospheric conditions are presented, along with results from the calibration observationsand skydips.

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