NEPSC2, the North Ecliptic Pole SCUBA-2 survey

The 850-{mu}m map is constructed using newly obtained observations by SCUBA-2 at the East Asian Observatory's James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, carried out using the observatory's large programme opportunities. The recent 850-{mu}m survey has extended the submillimetre data coverage by almost a factor of 4 compared to previous surveys, with a depth of {sigma}_rms_=1.0-2.3mJy/beam.

The catalogue contains 549 sources selected above a significance level of 4{sigma}, where the false-detection rate is 10 per cent; a higher threshold of 4.5{sigma} is required in order to achieve a false-detection rate below 3 per cent, which results in 342 sources being selected. Despite the large spatial variation of the noise, the deboosted flux density of sources is comparable to results from the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey, which covered the central 0.6deg^2^ of our survey area with better sensitivity.