Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) for the Subaru Telescope: Overview, recent progress, and future perspectives
Abstract
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 ~1.6-2.7A. An international collaboration is developing this instrument under the initiative of Kavli IPMU. The project is now going into the construction phase aiming at undertaking system integration in 2017-2018 and subsequently carrying out engineering operations in 2018-2019. This article gives an overview of the instrument, current project status and future paths forward.
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@article{arxiv.1608.01075,
title = {Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) for the Subaru Telescope: Overview, recent progress, and future perspectives},
author = {Naoyuki Tamura and Naruhisa Takato and Atsushi Shimono and Yuki Moritani and Kiyoto Yabe and Yuki Ishizuka and Akitoshi Ueda and Yukiko Kamata and Hrand Aghazarian and Stephane Arnouts and Gabriel Barban and Robert H. Barkhouser and Renato C. Borges and David F. Braun and Michael A. Carr and Pierre-Yves Chabaud and Yin-Chang Chang and Hsin-Yo Chen and Masashi Chiba and Richard C. Y. Chou and You-Hua Chu and Judith G. Cohen and Rodrigo P. de Almeida and Antonio C. de Oliveira and Ligia S. de Oliveira and Richard G. Dekany and Kjetil Dohlen and Jesulino B. dos Santos and Leandro H. dos Santos and Richard S. Ellis and Maximilian Fabricius and Didier Ferrand and Decio Ferreira and Mirek Golebiowski and Jenny E. Greene and Johannes Gross and James E. Gunn and Randolph Hammond and Albert Harding and Murdock Hart and Timothy M. Heckman and Christopher M. Hirata and Paul Ho and Stephen C. Hope and Larry Hovland and Shu-Fu Hsu and Yen-Shan Hu and Ping-Jie Huang and Marc Jaquet and Yipeng Jing and Jennifer Karr and Masahiko Kimura and Matthew E. King and Eiichiro Komatsu and Vincent Le Brun and Olivier Le Fevre and Arnaud Le Fur and David Le Mignant and Hung-Hsu Ling and Craig P. Loomis and Robert H. Lupton and Fabrice Madec and Peter Mao and Lucas S. Marrara and Claudia Mendes de Oliveira and Yosuke Minowa and Chaz N. Morantz and Hitoshi Murayama and Graham J. Murray and Youichi Ohyama and Joseph Orndorff and Sandrine Pascal and Jefferson M. Pereira and Daniel J. Reiley and Martin Reinecke and Andreas Ritter and Mitsuko Roberts and Mark A. Schwochert and Michael D. Seiffert and Stephen A. Smee and Laerte Sodre and David N. Spergel and Aaron J. Steinkraus and Michael A. Strauss and Christian Surace and Yasushi Suto and Nao Suzuki and John Swinbank and Philip J. Tait and Masahiro Takada and Tomonori Tamura and Yoko Tanaka and Laurence Tresse and Orlando Verducci and Didier Vibert and Clement Vidal and Shiang-Yu Wang and Chih-Yi Wen and Chi-Hung Yan and Naoki Yasuda},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.01075},
year = {2016}
}
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17 pages, 10 figures. Proceeding of SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016