Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) for the Subaru telescope: A next-generation facility instrument of the Subaru telescope has started coming

Naoyuki Tamura; Naruhisa Takato; Yuki Moritani; Kiyoto Yabe; Yuki Ishizuka; Yukiko Kamata; Ali Allaoui; Stéphane Arnouts; Robert H. Barkhouser; Philippe Balard; Rudy Barette; Mohamed Belhadi; Jill A. Burnham; Neven Caplar; Michael A. Carr; Pierre Yves Chabaud; Yin Chang Chang; Hsin Yo Chen; Chueh Yi Chou; You Hua Chu; Judith G. Cohen; Ricardo Costa; Thibaut Crahchet; Rodrigo P. de Almeida; Antonio C. de Oliveira; Ligia S. de Oliveira; Kjetil Dohlen; Leandro H. dos Santos; Richard S. Ellis; Maximilian Fabricius; Décio Ferreira; Hisanori Furusawa; Javier Garciá-Carpio; Mirek Golebiowski; Aidan Gray; James E. Gunn; Randolph Hammond; Albert Harding; Murdock Hart; Timothy M. Heckman; Stephen C. Hope; Shu Fu Hsu; Yen Shan Hu; Ping Jie Huang; Marc Jaquet; Eric Jeschke; Yipeng Jing; Erin Kado-Fong; Jennifer L. Karr; Satoshi Kawanomoto; Masahiko Kimura; Michitaro Koike; Eiichiro Komatsu; Shintaro Koshida; Vincent Le Brun; Olivier Le Févre; Arnaud Le Fur; David Le Mignant; Hung Hsu Ling; Craig P. Loomis; Robert H. Lupton; Fabrice Madec; Danilo Marchesini; Edouard Marguerite; Lucas S. Marrara; Dmitry Medvedev; Sogo Mineo; Hitoshi Murayama; Graham J. Murray; Youichi Ohyama; Hirofumi Okita; Yuki Okura; Masato Onodera; Joseph Orndorff; Sandrine Pascal; Joshua Peebles; Lucio Ramos; Daniel J. Reiley; Martin Reinecke; Mitsuko Roberts; Josimar A. Rosa; Julien P. Rousselle; Mira Sarkis; Alain Schmitt; Michael D. Seiffert; Kiaina Schubert; Hassan Siddiqui; Stephen A. Smee; Laerte Sodre; Michael A. Strauss; Christian Surace; Manuchehr Taghizadeh Popp; Philip J. Tait; Masahiro Takada; Satoshi Takita; Tomonori Tamura; Masayuki Tanaka; Yoko Tanaka; Aniruddha R. Thakar; Didier Vibert; Shiang Yu Wang; Chih Yi Wen; Suzanne Werner; Matthew Wung; Yoshihiko Yamada; Takuji Yamashita; Chi Hung Yan; Naoki Yasuda; Hiroshige Yoshida; Michitoshi Yoshida

doi:10.1117/12.2562206

Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) for the Subaru telescope: A next-generation facility instrument of the Subaru telescope has started coming

Naoyuki Tamura, Naruhisa Takato, Yuki Moritani, Kiyoto Yabe, Yuki Ishizuka, Yukiko Kamata, Ali Allaoui, Stéphane Arnouts, Robert H. Barkhouser, Philippe Balard, Rudy Barette, Mohamed Belhadi, Jill A. Burnham, Neven Caplar, Michael A. Carr, Pierre Yves Chabaud, Yin Chang Chang, Hsin Yo Chen, Chueh Yi Chou, You Hua ChuJudith G. Cohen, Ricardo Costa, Thibaut Crahchet, Rodrigo P. de Almeida, Antonio C. de Oliveira, Ligia S. de Oliveira, Kjetil Dohlen, Leandro H. dos Santos, Richard S. Ellis, Maximilian Fabricius, Décio Ferreira, Hisanori Furusawa, Javier Garciá-Carpio, Mirek Golebiowski, Aidan Gray, James E. Gunn, Randolph Hammond, Albert Harding, Murdock Hart, Timothy M. Heckman, Stephen C. Hope, Shu Fu Hsu, Yen Shan Hu, Ping Jie Huang, Marc Jaquet, Eric Jeschke, Yipeng Jing, Erin Kado-Fong, Jennifer L. Karr, Satoshi Kawanomoto, Masahiko Kimura, Michitaro Koike, Eiichiro Komatsu, Shintaro Koshida, Vincent Le Brun, Olivier Le Févre, Arnaud Le Fur, David Le Mignant, Hung Hsu Ling, Craig P. Loomis, Robert H. Lupton, Fabrice Madec, Danilo Marchesini, Edouard Marguerite, Lucas S. Marrara, Dmitry Medvedev, Sogo Mineo, Hitoshi Murayama, Graham J. Murray, Youichi Ohyama, Hirofumi Okita, Yuki Okura, Masato Onodera, Joseph Orndorff, Sandrine Pascal, Joshua Peebles, Lucio Ramos, Daniel J. Reiley, Martin Reinecke, Mitsuko Roberts, Josimar A. Rosa, Julien P. Rousselle, Mira Sarkis, Alain Schmitt, Michael D. Seiffert, Kiaina Schubert, Hassan Siddiqui, Stephen A. Smee, Laerte Sodre, Michael A. Strauss, Christian Surace, Manuchehr Taghizadeh Popp, Philip J. Tait, Masahiro Takada, Satoshi Takita, Tomonori Tamura, Masayuki Tanaka, Yoko Tanaka, Aniruddha R. Thakar, Didier Vibert, Shiang Yu Wang, Chih Yi Wen, Suzanne Werner, Matthew Wung, Yoshihiko Yamada, Takuji Yamashita, Chi Hung Yan, Naoki Yasuda, Hiroshige Yoshida, Michitoshi Yoshida

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PFS (Prime Focus Spectrograph), a next generation facility instrument on the Subaru telescope, is a very wide-field, massively multiplexed, and optical & near-infrared spectrograph. Exploiting the Subaru prime focus, 2394 reconfigurable fibers will be distributed in the 1.3 degree-diameter field of view. The spectrograph system has been designed with 3 arms of blue, red, and near-infrared cameras to simultaneously deliver spectra from 380nm to 1260nm in one exposure. The instrumentation has been conducted by the international collaboration managed by the project office hosted by Kavli IPMU. The team is actively integrating and testing the hardware and software of the subsystems some of which such as Metrology Camera System, the first Spectrograph Module, and the first on-telescope fiber cable have been delivered to the Subaru telescope observatory at the summit of Maunakea since 2018. The development is progressing in order to start on-sky engineering observation in 2021, and science operation in 2023. In parallel, the collaboration is trying to timely develop a plan of large-sky survey observation to be proposed and conducted in the framework of Subaru Strategic Program (SSP). This article gives an overview of the recent progress, current status and future perspectives of the instrumentation and scientific operation.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII
Editors	Christopher J. Evans, Julia J. Bryant, Kentaro Motohara
Publisher	SPIE
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510636811
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562206
State	Published - 2020
Externally published	Yes
Event	Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII 2020 - Virtual, Online, United States Duration: Dec 14 2020 → Dec 22 2020

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	11447
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

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Conference	Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII 2020
Country/Territory	United States
City	Virtual, Online
Period	12/14/20 → 12/22/20

Keywords

Future instrument
International collaboration
Multi-object spectroscopy
Near-infrared spectroscopy
Optical and near-infrared spectroscopy
Optical fibers
Optical spectroscopy
Subaru telescope
Wide-field instrument

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Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Tamura, N., Takato, N., Moritani, Y., Yabe, K., Ishizuka, Y., Kamata, Y., Allaoui, A., Arnouts, S., Barkhouser, R. H., Balard, P., Barette, R., Belhadi, M., Burnham, J. A., Caplar, N., Carr, M. A., Chabaud, P. Y., Chang, Y. C., Chen, H. Y., Chou, C. Y., ... Yoshida, M. (2020). Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) for the Subaru telescope: A next-generation facility instrument of the Subaru telescope has started coming. In C. J. Evans, J. J. Bryant, & K. Motohara (Eds.), Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII [1144713] (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 11447). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562206

Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) for the Subaru telescope : A next-generation facility instrument of the Subaru telescope has started coming. / Tamura, Naoyuki; Takato, Naruhisa; Moritani, Yuki et al.

Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII. ed. / Christopher J. Evans; Julia J. Bryant; Kentaro Motohara. SPIE, 2020. 1144713 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 11447).

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Tamura, N, Takato, N, Moritani, Y, Yabe, K, Ishizuka, Y, Kamata, Y, Allaoui, A, Arnouts, S, Barkhouser, RH, Balard, P, Barette, R, Belhadi, M, Burnham, JA, Caplar, N, Carr, MA, Chabaud, PY, Chang, YC, Chen, HY, Chou, CY, Chu, YH, Cohen, JG, Costa, R, Crahchet, T, de Almeida, RP, de Oliveira, AC, de Oliveira, LS, Dohlen, K, dos Santos, LH, Ellis, RS, Fabricius, M, Ferreira, D, Furusawa, H, Garciá-Carpio, J, Golebiowski, M, Gray, A, Gunn, JE, Hammond, R, Harding, A, Hart, M, Heckman, TM, Hope, SC, Hsu, SF, Hu, YS, Huang, PJ, Jaquet, M, Jeschke, E, Jing, Y, Kado-Fong, E, Karr, JL, Kawanomoto, S, Kimura, M, Koike, M, Komatsu, E, Koshida, S, Le Brun, V, Le Févre, O, Le Fur, A, Le Mignant, D, Ling, HH, Loomis, CP, Lupton, RH, Madec, F, Marchesini, D, Marguerite, E, Marrara, LS, Medvedev, D, Mineo, S, Murayama, H, Murray, GJ, Ohyama, Y, Okita, H, Okura, Y, Onodera, M, Orndorff, J, Pascal, S, Peebles, J, Ramos, L, Reiley, DJ, Reinecke, M, Roberts, M, Rosa, JA, Rousselle, JP, Sarkis, M, Schmitt, A, Seiffert, MD, Schubert, K, Siddiqui, H, Smee, SA, Sodre, L, Strauss, MA, Surace, C, Popp, MT, Tait, PJ, Takada, M, Takita, S, Tamura, T, Tanaka, M, Tanaka, Y, Thakar, AR, Vibert, D, Wang, SY, Wen, CY, Werner, S, Wung, M, Yamada, Y, Yamashita, T, Yan, CH, Yasuda, N, Yoshida, H & Yoshida, M 2020, Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) for the Subaru telescope: A next-generation facility instrument of the Subaru telescope has started coming. in CJ Evans, JJ Bryant & K Motohara (eds), Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII., 1144713, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 11447, SPIE, Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII 2020, Virtual, Online, United States, 12/14/20. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562206

Tamura N, Takato N, Moritani Y, Yabe K, Ishizuka Y, Kamata Y et al. Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) for the Subaru telescope: A next-generation facility instrument of the Subaru telescope has started coming. In Evans CJ, Bryant JJ, Motohara K, editors, Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII. SPIE. 2020. 1144713. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering). doi: 10.1117/12.2562206

Tamura, Naoyuki ; Takato, Naruhisa ; Moritani, Yuki et al. / Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) for the Subaru telescope : A next-generation facility instrument of the Subaru telescope has started coming. Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII. editor / Christopher J. Evans ; Julia J. Bryant ; Kentaro Motohara. SPIE, 2020. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering).

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