Overview of the Subaru telescope instrumentation

Takuya Yamashita; Tetsuo Nishimura

doi:10.1117/12.461903

7 March 2003 Overview of the Subaru Telescope instrumentation

Takuya Yamashita, Tetsuo Nishimura

Proceedings Volume 4841, Instrument Design and Performance for Optical/Infrared Ground-based Telescopes; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.461903
Event: Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 2002, Waikoloa, Hawai'i, United States

Abstract

The Subaru Telescope has seven first generation optical and infrared instruments now being handed-over from the instrument teams to the observatory and being offered for its open use. We describe brief history of the telescope project and overview of the instrumentation program. Brief status of the Individual instruments is given separately. Exchanging focal plane and instruments is important for such multi-purpose telescope and the effectiveness of the system with the Subaru Telescope is discussed. Finally, current challenges of the program and future plans are summarized.

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Takuya Yamashita and Tetsuo Nishimura "Overview of the Subaru Telescope instrumentation", Proc. SPIE 4841, Instrument Design and Performance for Optical/Infrared Ground-based Telescopes, (7 March 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.461903

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