Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) for the Subaru Telescope: its start of the last development phase

Naoyuki Tamura; Yuki Moritani; Kiyoto Yabe; Yuki Ishizuka; Yukiko Kamata; Ali Allaoui; Akira Arai; Stéphane Arnouts; Robert H Barkhouser; Rudy Barette; Patrick Blanchard; Eddie Bergeron; Neven Caplar; Pierre-Yves Chabaud; Yin-Chang Chang; Hsin-Yo Chen; Chueh-Yi Chou; You-Hua Chu; Judith G. Cohen; Richardo L. da Costa; Thibaut Crauchet; 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; Jahmour J. Givans; Javier Garciá-Carpio; Mirek Golebiowski; Aidan Gray; James E. Gunn; Satoshi Hamano; Randolph P. Hammond; Albert Harding; Kota Hayashi; Wanqiu He; Timothy M. Heckman; Stephen C. Hope; Shu-Fu Hsu; Yen-Shan Hu; Pin Jie Huang; Miho N. Ishigaki; Eric Jeschke; Yipeng Jing; Erin Kado-Fong; Jennifer L. Karr; Satoshi Kawanomoto; Masahiko Kimura; Michitaro Koike; Eiichiro Komatsu; Shintaro Koshida; Vincent Le Brun; Arnaud Le Fur; David Le Mignant; Romain Lhoussaine; Yen-Ting Lin; Hung-Hsu Ling; Craig P. Loomis; Robert H. Lupton; Fabrice Madec; Danilo Marchesini; Edouard Marguerite; Lucas S. Marrara; Dmitry Medvedev; Sogo Mineo; Satoshi Miyazaki; Takahiro Morishima; Kazumi Murata; Hitoshi Murayama; Graham J. Murray; Hirofumi Okita; Masato Onodera; Joshua Peebles; Paul Price; Tae-Soo Pyo; Lucio Ramos; Daniel J. Reiley; Martin Reinecke; Mitsuko Roberts; Josimar A. Rosa; Julien P. Rousselle; Mira Sarkis; Michael D. Seiffert; Kiaina Schubert; Hassan Siddiqui; Stephen A. Smee; Laerte Sodré Jr.; Michael A. Strauss; Christian Surace; Manuchehr Taghizadeh Popp; Philip J. Tait; Masahiro Takada; Yuhei Takagi; Masayuki Tanaka; Yoko Tanaka; Aniruddha R. Thakar; Didier Vibert; Shiang-Yu Wang; Chih-Yi Wen; Suzanne Werner; Matthew Wung; Gerald Lemson; Arik Mitschang; Naoki Yasuda; Hiroshige Yoshida; Chi-Hung Yan; Michitoshi Yoshida; Takuji Yamashita

doi:10.1117/12.2628152

29 August 2022 Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) for the Subaru Telescope: its start of the last development phase

Naoyuki Tamura, Yuki Moritani, Kiyoto Yabe, Yuki Ishizuka, Yukiko Kamata, Ali Allaoui, Akira Arai, Stéphane Arnouts, Robert H Barkhouser, Rudy Barette, Patrick Blanchard, Eddie Bergeron, Neven Caplar, Pierre-Yves Chabaud, Yin-Chang Chang, Hsin-Yo Chen, Chueh-Yi Chou, You-Hua Chu, Judith G. Cohen, Richardo L. da Costa, Thibaut Crauchet, 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, Jahmour J. Givans, Javier Garciá-Carpio, Mirek Golebiowski, Aidan Gray, James E. Gunn, Satoshi Hamano, Randolph P. Hammond, Albert Harding, Kota Hayashi, Wanqiu He, Timothy M. Heckman, Stephen C. Hope, Shu-Fu Hsu, Yen-Shan Hu, Pin Jie Huang, Miho N. Ishigaki, Eric Jeschke, Yipeng Jing, Erin Kado-Fong, Jennifer L. Karr, Satoshi Kawanomoto, Masahiko Kimura, Michitaro Koike, Eiichiro Komatsu, Shintaro Koshida, Vincent Le Brun, Arnaud Le Fur, David Le Mignant, Romain Lhoussaine, Yen-Ting Lin, Hung-Hsu Ling, Craig P. Loomis, Robert H. Lupton, Fabrice Madec, Danilo Marchesini, Edouard Marguerite, Lucas S. Marrara, Dmitry Medvedev, Sogo Mineo, Satoshi Miyazaki, Takahiro Morishima, Kazumi Murata, Hitoshi Murayama, Graham J. Murray, Hirofumi Okita, Masato Onodera, Joshua Peebles, Paul Price, Tae-Soo Pyo, Lucio Ramos, Daniel J. Reiley, Martin Reinecke, Mitsuko Roberts, Josimar A. Rosa, Julien P. Rousselle, Mira Sarkis, Michael D. Seiffert, Kiaina Schubert, Hassan Siddiqui, Stephen A. Smee, Laerte Sodré Jr., Michael A. Strauss, Christian Surace, Manuchehr Taghizadeh Popp, Philip J. Tait, Masahiro Takada, Yuhei Takagi, Masayuki Tanaka, Yoko Tanaka, Aniruddha R. Thakar, Didier Vibert, Shiang-Yu Wang, Chih-Yi Wen, Suzanne Werner, Matthew Wung, Gerald Lemson, Arik Mitschang, Naoki Yasuda, Hiroshige Yoshida, Chi-Hung Yan, Michitoshi Yoshida, Takuji Yamashita

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Proceedings Volume 12184, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX; 1218410 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2628152
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2022, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Abstract

PFS (Prime Focus Spectrograph), a next generation facility instrument on the Subaru telescope, is now being tested on the telescope. The instrument is equipped with very wide (1.3 degrees in diameter) field of view on the Subaru’s prime focus, high multiplexity by 2394 reconfigurable fibers, and wide waveband spectrograph that covers from 380nm to 1260nm simultaneously in one exposure. Currently engineering observations are ongoing with Prime Focus Instrument (PFI), Metrology Camera System (MCS), the first spectrpgraph module (SM1) with visible cameras and the first fiber cable providing optical link between PFI and SM1. Among the rest of the hardware, the second fiber cable has been already installed on the telescope and in the dome building since April 2022, and the two others were also delivered in June 2022. The integration and test of next SMs including near-infrared cameras are ongoing for timely deliveries. The progress in the software development is also worth noting. The instrument control software delivered with the subsystems is being well integrated with its system-level layer, the telescope system, observation planning software and associated databases. The data reduction pipelines are also rapidly progressing especially since sky spectra started being taken in early 2021 using Subaru Nigh Sky Spectrograph (SuNSS), and more recently using PFI during the engineering observations. In parallel to these instrumentation activities, the PFS science team in the collaboration is timely formulating a plan of large-sky survey observation to be proposed and conducted as a Subaru Strategic Program (SSP) from 2024. In this article, we report these recent progresses, ongoing developments and future perspectives of the PFS instrumentation.

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Naoyuki Tamura, Yuki Moritani, Kiyoto Yabe, Yuki Ishizuka, Yukiko Kamata, Ali Allaoui, Akira Arai, Stéphane Arnouts, Robert H Barkhouser, Rudy Barette, Patrick Blanchard, Eddie Bergeron, Neven Caplar, Pierre-Yves Chabaud, Yin-Chang Chang, Hsin-Yo Chen, Chueh-Yi Chou, You-Hua Chu, Judith G. Cohen, Richardo L. da Costa, Thibaut Crauchet, 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, Jahmour J. Givans, Javier Garciá-Carpio, Mirek Golebiowski, Aidan Gray, James E. Gunn, Satoshi Hamano, Randolph P. Hammond, Albert Harding, Kota Hayashi, Wanqiu He, Timothy M. Heckman, Stephen C. Hope, Shu-Fu Hsu, Yen-Shan Hu, Pin Jie Huang, Miho N. Ishigaki, Eric Jeschke, Yipeng Jing, Erin Kado-Fong, Jennifer L. Karr, Satoshi Kawanomoto, Masahiko Kimura, Michitaro Koike, Eiichiro Komatsu, Shintaro Koshida, Vincent Le Brun, Arnaud Le Fur, David Le Mignant, Romain Lhoussaine, Yen-Ting Lin, Hung-Hsu Ling, Craig P. Loomis, Robert H. Lupton, Fabrice Madec, Danilo Marchesini, Edouard Marguerite, Lucas S. Marrara, Dmitry Medvedev, Sogo Mineo, Satoshi Miyazaki, Takahiro Morishima, Kazumi Murata, Hitoshi Murayama, Graham J. Murray, Hirofumi Okita, Masato Onodera, Joshua Peebles, Paul Price, Tae-Soo Pyo, Lucio Ramos, Daniel J. Reiley, Martin Reinecke, Mitsuko Roberts, Josimar A. Rosa, Julien P. Rousselle, Mira Sarkis, Michael D. Seiffert, Kiaina Schubert, Hassan Siddiqui, Stephen A. Smee, Laerte Sodré Jr., Michael A. Strauss, Christian Surace, Manuchehr Taghizadeh Popp, Philip J. Tait, Masahiro Takada, Yuhei Takagi, Masayuki Tanaka, Yoko Tanaka, Aniruddha R. Thakar, Didier Vibert, Shiang-Yu Wang, Chih-Yi Wen, Suzanne Werner, Matthew Wung, Gerald Lemson, Arik Mitschang, Naoki Yasuda, Hiroshige Yoshida, Chi-Hung Yan, Michitoshi Yoshida, and Takuji Yamashita "Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) for the Subaru Telescope: its start of the last development phase", Proc. SPIE 12184, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX, 1218410 (29 August 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2628152

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