1. Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) for the Subaru telescope: ongoing integration and future plans
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Eiichiro Komatsu, David Le Mignant, Pierre Yves Chabaud, Yipeng Jing, Philippe Balard, Stephen A. Smee, Atsushi Shimono, Julien Rousselle, Sara Jamal, Yuki Moritani, Rudy Barette, Kjetil Dohlen, Naoyuki Tamura, Tomonori Tamura, Vincent Le Brun, David Hover, Yoshihiko Yamada, Michitoshi Yoshida, Fabrice Madec, Raphael Pourcelot, Shiang-Yu Wang, Youichi Ohyama, Yoko Tanaka, Lucas Souza Marrara, Eric Jeschke, Olivier Le Fèvre, Masahiko Kimura, M. Golebiowski, Masahiro Takada, Michael A. Carr, Ping Jie Huang, Robert H. Barkhouser, Josimar A. Rosa, Naoki Yasuda, Robert H. Lupton, Dmitry Medvedev, Chih Yi Wen, Albert Harding, Stephen C. Hope, Peter H. Mao, Micheal D. Seiffert, Masayuki Tanaka, Yin Chang Chang, Craig P. Loomis, Hiroshige Yoshida, Masato Onodera, Yukiko Kamata, Hisanori Furusawa, Aniruddha R. Thakar, Aaron J. Steinkraus, Matthew E. King, M. Jaquet, Chueh Yi Chou, Hassan Siddiqui, Arnaud Le Fur, Hung Hsu Ling, Murdock Hart, Guillaume Pernot, Neven Caplar, Mohamed Belhadi, Alain Schmitt, Erin Kado-Fong, Zuo Wang, Randolph Hammond, Chi-Hung Yan, You-Hua Chu, Antonio Cesar de Oliveira, Yen Shan Hu, Yosuke Minowa, Kiyoto Yabe, Michael A. Strauss, Richard S. Ellis, Paul T. P. Ho, Javier Garcia-Carpio, Jesulino Bispo dos Santos, Stéphane Arnouts, Josh Peebles, Mitsuko Roberts, Danilo Marchesini, Shu Fu Hsu, Richard Dekany, Orlando Verducci, D. Vibert, Maximilian Fabricius, Judith G. Cohen, Martin Reinecke, Leandro Henrique dos Santos, Christian Surace, Johannes Gross, Jill Burnham, Timothy M. Heckman, Daniel J. Reiley, Ligia Souza de Oliveira, Naruhisa Takato, Yuki Ishizuka, Sogo Mineo, Décio Ferreira, Jeniffer L. Karr, Hitoshi Murayama, Sandrine Pascal, Akitoshi Ueda, Philip J. Tait, Laerte Sodré, Hrand Aghazarian, Suzanne Werner, Graham J. Murray, Rodorigo P. De Almeida, Joe D. Orndorff, Michitaro Koike, M. Schwochert, James E. Gunn, Hsin Yo Chen, Beaussier, Catherine, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), UNIROUEN - UFR Santé (UNIROUEN UFR Santé), Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU), Statens Serum Institut [Copenhagen], Evans, Christopher J., Simard, Luc, Takami, Hideki, and Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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Focus (computing) ,[SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph] ,Computer science ,Field of view ,[SDU.ASTR] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph] ,01 natural sciences ,7. Clean energy ,Prime (order theory) ,010309 optics ,[SDU] Sciences of the Universe [physics] ,[SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics] ,0103 physical sciences ,Systems engineering ,Subaru Telescope ,010303 astronomy & astrophysics ,Spectrograph ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS - 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 ~ 1.6-2.7Å. An international 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.
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- 2018