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astro-ph.IM2026

Prime Focus Spectrograph on the Subaru Telescope: Overview of Science Operations

Masayuki Tanaka, Akira Arai, Wanqiu He +30

The paper presents the science operation framework for Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS or 'Onohi'ula in its Hawaiian name) installed at the 8.2m Subaru Telescope on the summit of Mau…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 1.1k cited

The Hyper Suprime-Cam SSP Survey: Overview and Survey Design

H. Aihara, N. Arimoto, R. Armstrong +139

Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) is a wide-field imaging camera on the prime focus of the 8.2m Subaru telescope on the summit of Maunakea in Hawaii. A team of scientists from Japan, Taiwan…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 3 cited

SUBARU prime focus spectrograph: integration, testing and performance for the first spectrograph

F. Madec, A. Le Fur, D. Le Mignant +22

The Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) of the Subaru Measurement of Images and Redshifts (SuMIRe) project for Subaru telescope consists in four identical spectrographs fed by 600 fiber…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 7 cited

Visible camera cryostat design and performance for the SuMIRe Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS)

Stephen A. Smee, James E. Gunn, Mirek Golebiowski +13

We describe the design and performance of the SuMIRe Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) visible camera cryostats. SuMIRe PFS is a massively multi-plexed ground-based spectrograph consi…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 6 cited

The survey operation software system development for Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) on Subaru Telescope

Atsushi Shimono, Naoyuki Tamura, Naruhisa Takato +6

The Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) is a wide-field, multi-object spectrograph accommodating 2394 fibers to observe the sky at the prime focus of the Subaru telescope. The software…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 149 cited

Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) for the Subaru Telescope: Overview, recent progress, and future perspectives

Naoyuki Tamura, Naruhisa Takato, Atsushi Shimono +97

PFS (Prime Focus Spectrograph), a next generation facility instrument on the 8.2-meter Subaru Telescope, is a very wide-field, massively multiplexed, optical and near-infrared spec…