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, Ricardo CostaThibaut 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 Givans, Javier Garciá-Carpio, Mirek Golebiowski, Aidan Gray, James E. Gunn, Satoshi Hamano, Randolph Hammond, Albert Harding, Kota Hayashi, Wanqiu He, Timothy M. Heckman, Stephen C. Hope, Shu Fu Hsu, Yen Shan Hu, Ping 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, Gerald Lemson, Romain Lhoussaine Ben Brahim, 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, Arik Mitschang, 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, 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, Takuji Yamashita, Chi Hung Yan, Naoki Yasuda, Hiroshige Yoshida, Michitoshi Yoshida

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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.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationGround-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX
EditorsChristopher J. Evans, Julia J. Bryant, Kentaro Motohara
PublisherSPIE
ISBN (Electronic)9781510653498
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
EventGround-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX 2022 - Montreal, Canada
Duration: Jul 17 2022Jul 22 2022

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume12184
ISSN (Print)0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)1996-756X

Conference

ConferenceGround-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX 2022
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityMontreal
Period7/17/227/22/22

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Keywords

  • Subaru Telescope
  • future instrument under commissioning
  • international collaboration
  • large sky survey
  • multi-object spectroscopy
  • optical and near-infrared spectroscopy
  • optical fibers
  • wide-field instrument

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