The Hyper Suprime-Cam SSP Survey: Overview and Survey Design
Abstract
Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) is a wide-field imaging camera on the prime focus of the 8.2m Subaru telescope on the summit of Maunakea in Hawaii. A team of scientists from Japan, Taiwan and Princeton University is using HSC to carry out a 300-night multi-band imaging survey of the high-latitude sky. The survey includes three layers: the Wide layer will cover 1400 deg in five broad bands (), with a point-source depth of . The Deep layer covers a total of 26~deg in four fields, going roughly a magnitude fainter, while the UltraDeep layer goes almost a magnitude fainter still in two pointings of HSC (a total of 3.5 deg). Here we describe the instrument, the science goals of the survey, and the survey strategy and data processing. This paper serves as an introduction to a special issue of the Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, which includes a large number of technical and scientific papers describing results from the early phases of this survey.
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@article{arxiv.1704.05858,
title = {The Hyper Suprime-Cam SSP Survey: Overview and Survey Design},
author = {H. Aihara and N. Arimoto and R. Armstrong and S. Arnouts and N. A. Bahcall and S. Bickerton and J. Bosch and K. Bundy and P. L. Capak and J. H. H. Chan and M. Chiba and J. Coupon and E. Egami and M. Enoki and F. Finet and H. Fujimori and S. Fujimoto and H. Furusawa and J. Furusawa and T. Goto and A. Goulding and J. P. Greco and J. E. Greene and J. E. Gunn and T. Hamana and Y. Harikane and Y. Hashimoto and T. Hattori and M. Hayashi and Y. Hayashi and K. G. Hełminiak and R. Higuchi and C. Hikage and P. T. P. Ho and B. -C. Hsieh and K. Huang and S. Huang and H. Ikeda and M. Imanishi and A. K. Inoue and K. Iwasawa and I. Iwata and A. T. Jaelani and H. -Y. Jian and Y. Kamata and H. Karoji and N. Kashikawa and N. Katayama and S. Kawanomoto and I. Kayo and J. Koda and M. Koike and T. Kojima and Y. Komiyama and A. Konno and S. Koshida and Y. Koyama and H. Kusakabe and A. Leauthaud and C. -H. Lee and L. Lin and Y. -T. Lin and R. H. Lupton and R. Mandelbaum and Y. Matsuoka and E. Medezinski and S. Mineo and S. Miyama and H. Miyatake and S. Miyazaki and R. Momose and A. More and S. More and Y. Moritani and T. J. Moriya and T. Morokuma and S. Mukae and R. Murata and H. Murayama and T. Nagao and F. Nakata and M. Niida and H. Niikura and A. J. Nishizawa and Y. Obuchi and M. Oguri and Y. Oishi and N. Okabe and Y. Okura and Y. Ono and M. Onodera and M. Onoue and K. Osato and M. Ouchi and P. A. Price and T. -S. Pyo and M. Sako and S. Okamoto and M. Sawicki and T. Shibuya and K. Shimasaku and A. Shimono and M. Shirasaki and J. D. Silverman and M. Simet and J. Speagle and D. N. Spergel and M. A. Strauss and Y. Sugahara and N. Sugiyama and Y. Suto and S. H. Suyu and N. Suzuki and P. J. Tait and T. Takata and M. Takada and N. Tamura and M. M. Tanaka and M. Tanaka and M. Tanaka and Y. Tanaka and T. Terai and Y. Terashima and Y. Toba and J. Toshikawa and E. L. Turner and T. Uchida and H. Uchiyama and K. Umetsu and F. Uraguchi and Y. Urata and T. Usuda and Y. Utsumi and S. -Y. Wang and W. -H. Wang and K. C. Wong and K. Yabe and Y. Yamada and H. Yamanoi and N. Yasuda and S. Yeh and A. Yonehara and S. Yuma},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.05858},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
14 pages, 7 figures, 5 tables. Corrected for a typo in the coordinates of HSC-Wide spring equatorial field in Table 5