Tamura, N;
Takato, N;
Shimono, A;
Moritani, Y;
Yabe, K;
Ishizuka, Y;
Kamata, Y;
... Surace, C; + view all
(2018)
Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) for the Subaru telescope: Ongoing integration and future plans.
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Proceedings Volume 10702, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII; 107021C.
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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 ∼ 1.6-2.7Å. 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.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) for the Subaru telescope: Ongoing integration and future plans |
| Event: | SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation |
| ISBN-13: | 9781510619579 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1117/12.2311871 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2311871 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10056503 |
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