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…
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…
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…