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

149 citations · 184 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.IM20167 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.IM20161 cited

A Novel Reflectometer for Relative Reflectance Measurements of CCDs

Murdock Hart, Robert H. Barkhouser, James E. Gunn +1

The high quantum efficiencies (QE) of backside illuminated charge coupled devices (CCD) has ushered in the age of the large scale astronomical survey. The QE of these devices can b…

astro-ph.IM2016149 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-ph.IM20149 cited

Optical Design of the SuMIRe PFS Spectrograph

Sandrine Pascal, Sebastien Vives, Robert Barkhouser +1

The SuMIRe Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS), developed for the 8-m class SUBARU telescope, will consist of four identical spectrographs, each receiving 600 fibers from a 2394 fiber r…

astro-ph.IM20149 cited

The near infrared camera for the Subaru Prime Focus Spectrograph

Stephen A. Smee, James E. Gunn, Mirek Golebiowski +10

We present the detailed design of the near infrared camera for the SuMIRe (Subaru Measurement of Images and Redshifts) Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) being developed for the Subaru…

astro-ph.IM20146 cited

Volume phase holographic gratings for the Subaru Prime Focus Spectrograph: performance measurements of the prototype grating set

Robert Barkhouser, James Arns, James E. Gunn

The Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) is a major instrument under development for the 8.2 m Subaru telescope. Four identical spectrograph modules are located in a room above one Nasmy…