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

149 citations · 167 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

Operational capabilities and on-sky performance of SAMOS at the completion of science commissioning

Massimo Robberto, Stephen A. Smee, Robert H. Barkhouser +9

We present the operational capabilities and on-sky performance of the SOAR Adaptive Module Optical Spectrograph (SAMOS) at the completion of its science commissioning phase. SAMOS…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 3 cited

Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V: Pioneering Panoptic Spectroscopy

Juna A. Kollmeier, Hans-Walter Rix, Conny Aerts +217

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V (SDSS-V) is pioneering panoptic spectroscopy: it is the first all-sky, multi-epoch, optical-to-infrared spectroscopic survey. SDSS-V is mapping the s…

astro-ph.IM2024

A Precision Cryogenic Positioning Stage for Detector Dithering and Flexure Compensation

Stephen A. Smee, Stephen C. Hope, Randolph P. Hammond +20

This paper presents the design and technical progress of a precision X-Y stage for detector dithering and flexure compensation. The stage is being developed for use in the Magellan…

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…

astro-ph2008★ 15 cited

The FourStar Infrared Camera

S. E. Persson, Robert Barkhouser, Christoph Birk +11

The FourStar infrared camera is a 1.0-2.5 micron (JHKs) near infrared camera for the Magellan Baade 6.5m telescope at Las Campanas Observatory (Chile). It is being built by Carnegi…