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Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) for the Subaru Telescope: Overview, recent progress, and future perspectives
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Working Paper
Author
Tamura, NaoyukiTakato, NaruhisaShimono, AtsushiMoritani, YukiYabe, KiyotoIshizuka, YukiUeda, AkitoshiKamata, YukikoAghazarian, HrandArnouts, StephaneBarban, GabrielBarkhouser, Robert H.Borges, Renato C.Braun, David F.Carr, Michael A.Chabaud, Pierre-YvesChang, Yin-ChangChen, Hsin-YoChiba, MasashiChou, Richard C. Y.Chu, You-HuaCohen, Judith G.de Almeida, Rodrigo P.de Oliveira, Antonio C.de Oliveira, Ligia S.Dekany, Richard G.Dohlen, KjetilSantos, Jesulino B. dosSantos, Leandro H. dosEllis, Richard S.Fabricius, MaximilianFerrand, DidierFerreira, DecioGolebiowski, MirekGreene, Jenny E.Gross, JohannesGunn, James E.Hammond, RandolphHarding, AlbertHart, MurdockHeckman, Timothy M.Hirata, Christopher M.Ho, PaulHope, Stephen C.Hovland, LarryHsu, Shu-FuHu, Yen-ShanHuang, Ping-JieJaquet, MarcJing, YipengKarr, JenniferKimura, MasahikoKing, Matthew E.Komatsu, EiichiroBrun, Vincent LeFevre, Olivier LeFur, Arnaud LeMignant, David LeLing, Hung-HsuLoomis, Craig P.Lupton, Robert H.Madec, FabriceMao, PeterMarrara, Lucas S.de Oliveira, Claudia MendesMinowa, YosukeMorantz, Chaz N.Murayama, HitoshiMurray, Graham J.Ohyama, YouichiOrndorff, JosephPascal, SandrinePereira, Jefferson M.Reiley, Daniel J.Reinecke, MartinRitter, AndreasRoberts, MitsukoSchwochert, Mark A.Seiffert, Michael D.Smee, Stephen A.Sodre Jr., LaerteSpergel, David N.Steinkraus, Aaron J.Strauss, Michael A.Surace, ChristianSuto, YasushiSuzuki, NaoSwinbank, JohnTait, Philip J.Takada, MasahiroTamura, TomonoriTanaka, YokoTresse, LaurenceVerducci Jr., OrlandoVibert, DidierVidal, ClementWang, Shiang-YuWen, Chih-YiYan, Chi-HungYasuda, Naoki
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Subject
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
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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.
Comment: 17 pages, 10 figures. Proceeding of SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016