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

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astro-ph.IM2014★ 11 cited

Active optics for high-dynamic variable curvature mirrors

Emmanuel Hugot, Marc Ferrari, Gerard R. Lemaitre +5

Variable curvature mirrors of large amplitude are designed by using finite element analysis. The specific case studied reaches at least a 800 μm sag with an optical quality better…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 24 cited

Design and development of a freeform active mirror for an astronomy application

Zalpha Challita, Tibor Agócs, Emmanuel Hugot +10

The advent of extremely large telescopes will bring unprecedented light-collecting power and spatial resolution, but it will also lead to a significant increase in the size and com…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 14 cited

Fiber Optical Cable and Connector System (FOCCoS) for PFS/Subaru

Antonio Cesar de Oliveira, Lígia Souza de Oliveira, Márcio V. de Arruda +29

FOCCoS, Fiber Optical Cable and Connector System, has the main function of capturing the direct light from the focal plane of Subaru Telescope using optical fibers, each one with a…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 3 cited

Current status of the Spectrograph System for the SuMIRe/PFS

S. Vives, D. Le Mignant, J. E. Gunn +17

The Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) is a new facility instrument for Subaru Telescope which will be installed in around 2017. It is a multi-object spectrograph fed by about 2400 fib…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 4 cited

Progress with the Prime Focus Spectrograph for the Subaru Telescope: a massively multiplexed optical and near-infrared fiber spectrograph

Hajime Sugai, Naoyuki Tamura, Hiroshi Karoji +81

The Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) is an optical/near-infrared multi-fiber spectrograph with 2394 science fibers, which are distributed in 1.3 degree diameter field of view at Suba…