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astro-ph.IM2012★ 4 cited

225 GHz Atmospheric Opacity Measurements from Two Arctic Sites

S. Matsushita, M. -T. Chen, P. Martin-Cocher +6

We report the latest results of 225 GHz atmospheric opacity measurements from two arctic sites; one on high coastal terrain near the Eureka weather station, on Ellesmere Island, Ca…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 3 cited

Detectors and cryostat design for the SuMIRe Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS)

James E. Gunn, Michael Carr, Stephen A. Smee +20

We describe the conceptual design of the camera cryostats, detectors, and detector readout electronics for the SuMIRe Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) being developed for the Subaru…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 21 cited

The metrology cameras for Subaru PFS and FMOS

Shiang-Yu Wang, Yen-Shan Hu, Chi-Hung Yan +11

The Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) is a new multi-fiber spectrograph on Subaru telescope. PFS will cover around 1.4 degree diameter field with ~2400 fibers. To ensure precise posit…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 21 cited

Prime Focus Spectrograph - Subaru's future -

Hajime Sugai, Hiroshi Karoji, Naruhisa Takato +51

The Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) of the Subaru Measurement of Images and Redshifts (SuMIRe) project has been endorsed by Japanese community as one of the main future instruments…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 62 cited

New Techniques for High-Contrast Imaging with ADI: the ACORNS-ADI SEEDS Data Reduction Pipeline

Timothy D. Brandt, Michael W. McElwain, Edwin L. Turner +44

We describe Algorithms for Calibration, Optimized Registration, and Nulling the Star in Angular Differential Imaging (ACORNS-ADI), a new, parallelized software package to reduce hi…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 97 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Data Characterization and Map Making

Rolando Dünner, Matthew Hasselfield, Tobias A. Marriage +71

We present a description of the data reduction and mapmaking pipeline used for the 2008 observing season of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). The data presented here at 148 GH…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 34 cited

The Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment (CIBER): The Wide-Field Imagers

J. Bock, I. Sullivan, T. Arai +19

We have developed and characterized an imaging instrument to measure the spatial properties of the diffuse near-infrared extragalactic background light in a search for fluctuations…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 19 cited

The LEGUE Input Catalogue for Dark Night Observing in the LAMOST Pilot Survey

Fan Yang, Jeffrey L. Carlin, Chao Liu +14

We outline the design of the dark nights portion of the LAMOST Pilot Survey, which began observations in October 2011. In particular, we focus on Milky Way stellar candidates that…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 20 cited

The LEGUE High Latitude Bright Survey Design for the LAMOST Pilot Survey

Yueyang Zhang, Jeffrey L. Carlin, Fan Yang +14

We describe the footprint and input catalog for bright nights in the LAMOST Pilot Survey, which began in October 2011. Targets are selected from two stripes in the north and south…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 29 cited

The site conditions of the Guo Shou Jing Telescope

Song Yao, Chao Liu, Haotong Zhang +18

The weather at Xinglong Observing Station, where the Guo Shou Jing Telescope (GSJT) is located, is strongly affected by the monsoon climate in north-east China. The LAMOST survey s…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 37 cited

An Algorithm for Preferential Selection of Spectroscopic Targets in LEGUE

Jeffrey L. Carlin, Sebastien Lepine, Heidi Jo Newberg +22

We describe a general target selection algorithm that is applicable to any survey in which the number of available candidates is much larger than the number of objects to be observ…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 22 cited

Star-galaxy separation in the AKARI NEP Deep Field

A. Solarz, A. Pollo, T. T. Takeuchi +10

Context: It is crucial to develop a method for classifying objects detected in deep surveys at infrared wavelengths. We specifically need a method to separate galaxies from stars u…