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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 robotic positioner at the telescope prime focus. Each…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Sandrine Pascal , Sebastien Vives , Robert Barkhouser , James Gunn

The Cobra fiber positioner is being developed by the California Institute of Technology (CIT) and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for the Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) instrument that will be installed at the Subaru Telescope on Mauna…

We describe the conceptual design of the camera cryostats, detectors, and detector readout electronics for the SuMIRe Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) being developed for the Subaru telescope. The SuMIRe PFS will consist of four identical…

The FIBRE-pac (FMOS image-based reduction package) is an IRAF-based reduction tool for the fiber multiple-object spectrograph (FMOS) of the Subaru telescope. To reduce FMOS images, a number of special techniques are necessary because each…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 F. Iwamuro , Y. Moritani , K. Yabe , M. Sumiyoshi , K. Kawate , N. Tamura , M. Akiyama , M. Kimura , N. Takato , P. Tait , K. Ohta , T. Totani , Y. Suzuki , M. Tonegawa

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 microlens in its tip, and conducting this light through a…

MSE will be a massively multiplexed survey telescope, including a segmented primary mirror which feeds fibers at the prime focus, including an array of approximately four thousand fibers, positioned precisely to feed banks of spectrographs…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 Alexis Hill , Alexandre Blin , David Horville , Shan Mignot , Kei Szeto

The Fiber Optical Cable and Connector System (FOCCoS), provides optical connection between 2400 positioners and a set of spectrographs by an optical fibers cable as part of Subaru PFS instrument. Each positioner retains one fiber entrance…

In this paper, we describe the optical imaging data processing pipeline developed for the Subaru Telescope's Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) instrument. The HSC Pipeline builds on the prototype pipeline being developed by the Large Synoptic Survey…

The Fiber Optical Cable and Connector System, FOCCoS, for the Prime Focus Spectrograph, PFS, is responsible for transporting light from the Subaru Telescope focal plane to a set of four spectrographs. Each spectrograph will be fed by a…

One crucial aspect of planning any large scale astronomical survey is constructing an observing strategy that maximizes reduced data quality. This is especially important for surveys that are rather heterogeneous and broad-ranging in their…

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 consisting of four identical spectrograph modules, each receiving…

The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) is an airborne astronomical observatory comprised of a 2.5-meter telescope mounted in the aft section of a Boeing 747SP aircraft. During routine operations, several instruments…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-18 R. Y. Shuping , R. Krzaczek , W. D. Vacca , M. Charcos-Llorens , W. T. Reach , R. Alles , M. Clarke , R. Melchiorri , J. Radomski , S. Shenoy , D. Sandel , E. B. Omelian

We present details of the design for the CCD readout electronics for the Subaru Telescope Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS). The spectrograph is comprised of four identical spectrograph modules, each collecting roughly 600 spectra. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Stephen C. Hope , James E. Gunn , Craig P. Loomis , Roger E. Fitzgerald , Grant O. Peacock

The Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (HSC-SSP) is a three-layered imaging survey aimed at addressing some of the most outstanding questions in astronomy today, including the nature of dark matter and dark energy. The survey has…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-14 Hiroaki Aihara , Robert Armstrong , Steven Bickerton , James Bosch , Jean Coupon , Hisanori Furusawa , Yusuke Hayashi , Hiroyuki Ikeda , Yukiko Kamata , Hiroshi Karoji , Satoshi Kawanomoto , Michitaro Koike , Yutaka Komiyama , Robert H. Lupton , Sogo Mineo , Hironao Miyatake , Satoshi Miyazaki , Tomoki Morokuma , Yoshiyuki Obuchi , Yukie Oishi , Yuki Okura , Paul A. Price , Tadafumi Takata , Manobu M. Tanaka , Masayuki Tanaka , Yoko Tanaka , Tomohisa Uchida , Fumihiro Uraguchi , Yousuke Utsumi , Shiang-Yu Wang , Yoshihiko Yamada , Hitomi Yamanoi , Naoki Yasuda , Nobuo Arimoto , Masashi Chiba , Francois Finet , Hiroki Fujimori , Seiji Fujimoto , Junko Furusawa , Tomotsugu Goto , Andy Goulding , James E. Gunn , Yuichi Harikane , Takashi Hattori , Masao Hayashi , Krzysztof G. Helminiak , Ryo Higuchi , Chiaki Hikage , Paul T. P. Ho , Bau-Ching Hsieh , Kuiyun Huang , Song Huang , Masatoshi Imanishi , Ikuru Iwata , Anton T. Jaelani , Hung-Yu Jian , Nobunari Kashikawa , Nobuhiko Katayama , Takashi Kojima , Akira Konno , Shintaro Koshida , Haruka Kusakabe , Alexie Leauthaud , C. -H. Lee , Lihwai Lin , Yen-Ting Lin , Rachel Mandelbaum , Yoshiki Matsuoka , Elinor Medezinski , Shoken Miyama , Rieko Momose , Anupreeta More , Surhud More , Shiro Mukae , Ryoma Murata , Hitoshi Murayama , Tohru Nagao , Fumiaki Nakata , Hiroko Niikura , Atsushi J. Nishizawa , Masamune Oguri , Nobuhiro Okabe , Yoshiaki Ono , Masato Onodera , Masafusa Onoue , Masami Ouchi , Tae-Soo Pyo , Takatoshi Shibuya , Kazuhiro Shimasaku , Melanie Simet , Joshua Speagle , David N. Spergel , Michael A. Strauss , Yuma Sugahara , Naoshi Sugiyama , Yasushi Suto , Nao Suzuki , Philip J. Tait , Masahiro Takada , Tsuyoshi Terai , Yoshiki Toba , Edwin L. Turner , Hisakazu Uchiyama , Keiichi Umetsu , Yuji Urata , Tomonori Usuda , Sherry Yeh , Suraphong Yuma

The Subaru Deep Field (SDF) project is a program of Subaru Observatory to carry out a deep galaxy survey over a blank field as large as 34'x27'. The program consists of very deep multi-band optical imaging, near infrared imaging for smaller…

The paper presents the third data release of Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (HSC-SSP), a wide-field multi-band imaging survey with the Subaru 8.2m telescope. HSC-SSP has three survey layers (Wide, Deep, and UltraDeep) with…

The Fiber Optical Cable and Connector System (FOCCoS), provides optical connection between 2400 positioners and a set of spectrographs through optical fibers cables as part of PFS instrument for Subaru telescope. The optical fiber cable…

We describe the development of automated emission line detection software for the Fiber Multi-Object Spectrograph (FMOS), which is a near-infrared spectrograph fed by $400$ fibers from the $0.2$ deg$^2$ prime focus field of view of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Motonari Tonegawa , Tomonori Totani , Fumihide Iwamuro , Masayuki Akiyama , Gavin Dalton , Karl Glazebrook , Kouji Ohta , Hiroyuki Okada , Kiyoto Yabe