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Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) for the Subaru telescope: ongoing integration and future plans

Naoyuki Tamura, You-Hua Chu, James E. Gunn, Michael A. Strauss, Timothy M. Heckman, Stephen A. Smee, Olivier Le Fèvre, David Le Mignant, Hrand Aghazarian, Pierre-Yves Chabaud, Yin-Chang Chang, Chueh-Yi Chou (+103 others)
2018 Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII  

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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 spectrograph. Exploiting the Subaru prime focus, 2394 reconfigurable fibers will be distributed over the 1.3 deg field of view. The spectrograph has been designed with 3 arms of blue, red, and near-infrared cameras to simultaneously observe spectra from 380nm to 1260nm in one exposure at a resolution of ∼1.6−2.7Å. An
more » ... national collaboration is developing this instrument under the initiative of Kavli IPMU. The project recently started undertaking the commissioning process of a subsystem at the Subaru Telescope side, with the integration and test processes of the other subsystems ongoing in parallel. We are aiming to start engineering night-sky operations in 2019, and observations for scientific use in 2021. This article gives an overview of the instrument, current project status and future paths forward.
doi:10.1117/12.2311871 fatcat:ja6zkrqmszgchaq4lqgsfmkvj4
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Naoyuki Tamura, You-Hua Chu, James E. Gunn, Michael A. Strauss, Timothy M. Heckman, Stephen A. Smee, Olivier Le Fèvre, David Le Mignant, Hrand Aghazarian, Pierre-Yves Chabaud, Yin-Chang Chang, Chueh-Yi Chou, Rodorigo P. de Almeida, Antonio C. de Oliveira, Richard G. Dekany, Kjetil Dohlen, Jesulino B. dos Santos, Leandro H. dos Santos, Jeniffer L. Karr, Masahiko Kimura, Matthew E. King, Michitaro Koike, Arnaud Le Fur, Hung-Hsu Ling, Vincent Le Brun, Craig P. Loomis, Robert H. Lupton, Fabrice Madec, Peter H. Mao, Hitoshi Murayama, Masahiro Takada, Yuki Moritani, Kiyoto Yabe, Yuki Ishizuka, Naruhisa Takato, Akitoshi Ueda, Atsushi Shimono, Yukiko Kamata, Shiang-Yu Wang, Laerte Sodré Junior, Lígia S. de Oliveira, Yipeng Jing, Judith G. Cohen, Daniel J. Reiley, Micheal D. Seiffert, Mark A. Schwochert, Eiichiro Komatsu, Richard S. Ellis, Stephane Arnouts, Robert H. Barkhouser, Philippe Balard, Rudy Barette, Mohamed Belhadi, Jill A. Burnham, Neven Caplar, Javier Garcia-Carpio, Michael A. Carr, Hsin-Yo Chen, Maximilian Fabricius, Decio Ferreira, Hisanori Furusawa, Mirek Golebiowski, Johannes Gross, Randolph Hammond, Albert Harding, Murdock Hart, Paul T. Ho, Stephen C. Hope, David J. Hover, Shu-Fu Hsu, Yen-Shan Hu, Ping-Jie Huang, Sara Jamal, Marc Jaquet, Eric Jeschke, Erin Kado-Fong, Danilo Marchesini, Lucas S. Marrara, Dmitry Medvedev, Sogo Mineo, Yosuke Minowa, Youichi Ohyama, Masato Onodera, Joseph Orndorff, Sandrine Pascal, Josh Peebles, Guillaume Pernot, Raphael Pourcelot, Martin Reinecke, Mitsuko Roberts, Josimar A. Rosa, Julien Rousselle, Alain Schmitt, Hassan Siddiqui, Aaron J. Steinkraus, Christian Surace, Philip J. Tait, Tomonori Tamura, Masayuki Tanaka, Yoko Tanaka, Aniruddha R. Thakar, Orlando Verducci, Didier Vibert, Zuo Wang, Chih-Yi Wen, Suzanne Werner, Yoshihiko Yamada, Chi-Hung Yan, Naoki Yasuda, Hiroshige Yoshida, Michitoshi Yoshida, Graham J. Murray, Hideki Takami, Christopher J. Evans, Luc Simard. "Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) for the Subaru telescope: ongoing integration and future plans." Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII (2018)