4 papers
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…
J-GEM near-infrared follow-up observations of the gravitational wave event S240422ed
Ichiro Takahashi, Tomoki Morokuma, Masaomi Tanaka +9
We report our near-infrared (NIR) follow-up observations of the gravitational wave (GW) event S240422ed using the Subaru Telescope/MOIRCS. S240422ed was initially classified as a b…
A Joint Search for the Electromagnetic Counterpart to the Gravitational-Wave Binary Black-Hole Merger Candidate S250328ae with the Dark Energy Camera and the Prime Focus Spectrograph
Haibin Zhang, Mitsuru Kokubo, Sean MacBride +20
The first detection of an optical counterpart to a gravitational wave signal revealed that collaborative efforts between instruments with different specializations provide a unique…
EMPRESS. XV. A New Determination of the Primordial Helium Abundance Suggesting a Moderately Low Value
Hiroto Yanagisawa, Masami Ouchi, Akinori Matsumoto +18
We present a new constraint on the primordial helium abundance, , based on Subaru observations. A major source of uncertainty in previous determination…