Abstract
Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) is a wide-field imaging camera on the prime focus of the 8.2-m Subaru telescope on the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii. A team of scientists from Japan, Taiwan, and Princeton University is using HSC to carry out a 300-night multi-band imaging survey of the high-latitude sky. The survey includes three layers: the Wide layer will cover 1400 deg2 in five broad bands (grizy), with a 5 σ point-source depth of r ≈ 26. The Deep layer covers a total of 26 deg2 in four fields, going roughly a magnitude fainter, while the UltraDeep layer goes almost a magnitude fainter still in two pointings of HSC (a total of 3.5 deg2). Here we describe the instrument, the science goals of the survey, and the survey strategy and data processing. This paper serves as an introduction to a special issue of the Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, which includes a large number of technical and scientific papers describing results from the early phases of this survey.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | S4 |
Journal | Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan |
Volume | 70 |
Issue number | Special Issue 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 2018 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Space and Planetary Science
Keywords
- Cosmology: observations
- Galaxies: general
- Large-scale structure of universe
- Surveys
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In: Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, Vol. 70, No. Special Issue 1, S4, 01.2018.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - The Hyper Suprime-Cam SSP survey
T2 - Overview and survey design
AU - Aihara, Hiroaki
AU - Arimoto, Nobuo
AU - Armstrong, Robert
AU - Arnouts, Stéphane
AU - Bahcall, Neta A.
AU - Bickerton, Steven
AU - Bosch, James
AU - Bundy, Kevin
AU - Capak, Peter L.
AU - Chan, James H.H.
AU - Chiba, Masashi
AU - Coupon, Jean
AU - Egami, Eiichi
AU - Enoki, Motohiro
AU - Finet, Francois
AU - Fujimori, Hiroki
AU - Fujimoto, Seiji
AU - Furusawa, Hisanori
AU - Furusawa, Junko
AU - Goto, Tomotsugu
AU - Goulding, Andy
AU - Greco, Johnny P.
AU - Greene, Jenny E.
AU - Gunn, James E.
AU - Hamana, Takashi
AU - Harikane, Yuichi
AU - Hashimoto, Yasuhiro
AU - Hattori, Takashi
AU - Hayashi, Masao
AU - Hayashi, Yusuke
AU - Hełminiak, Krzysztof G.
AU - Higuchi, Ryo
AU - Hikage, Chiaki
AU - Ho, Paul T.P.
AU - Hsieh, Bau Ching
AU - Huang, Kuiyun
AU - Huang, Song
AU - Ikeda, Hiroyuki
AU - Imanishi, Masatoshi
AU - Inoue, Akio K.
AU - Iwasawa, Kazushi
AU - Iwata, Ikuru
AU - Jaelani, Anton T.
AU - Jian, Hung Yu
AU - Kamata, Yukiko
AU - Karoji, Hiroshi
AU - Kashikawa, Nobunari
AU - Katayama, Nobuhiko
AU - Kawanomoto, Satoshi
AU - Kayo, Issha
AU - Koda, Jin
AU - Koike, Michitaro
AU - Kojima, Takashi
AU - Komiyama, Yutaka
AU - Konno, Akira
AU - Koshida, Shintaro
AU - Koyama, Yusei
AU - Kusakabe, Haruka
AU - Leauthaud, Alexie
AU - Lee, Chien Hsiu
AU - Lin, Lihwai
AU - Lin, Yen Ting
AU - Lupton, Robert H.
AU - Mandelbaum, Rachel
AU - Matsuoka, Yoshiki
AU - Medezinski, Elinor
AU - Mineo, Sogo
AU - Miyama, Shoken
AU - Miyatake, Hironao
AU - Miyazaki, Satoshi
AU - Momose, Rieko
AU - More, Anupreeta
AU - More, Surhud
AU - Moritani, Yuki
AU - Oriya, Takashi J.M.
AU - Morokuma, Tomoki
AU - Mukae, Shiro
AU - Murata, Ryoma
AU - Murayama, Hitoshi
AU - Nagao, Tohru
AU - Nakata, Fumiaki
AU - Niida, Mana
AU - Niikura, Hiroko
AU - Nishizawa, Atsushi J.
AU - Obuchi, Yoshiyuki
AU - Oguri, Masamune
AU - Oishi, Yukie
AU - Okabe, Nobuhiro
AU - Okamoto, Sakurako
AU - Okura, Yuki
AU - Ono, Yoshiaki
AU - Onodera, Masato
AU - Onoue, Masafusa
AU - Osato, Ken
AU - Ouchi, Masami
AU - Price, Paul A.
AU - Pyo, Tae Soo
AU - Sako, Masao
AU - Sawicki, Marcin
AU - Shibuya, Takatoshi
AU - Shimasaku, Kazuhiro
AU - Shimono, Atsushi
AU - Shirasaki, Masato
AU - Silverman, John D.
AU - Simet, Melanie
AU - Speagle, Joshua
AU - Spergel, David N.
AU - Strauss, Michael A.
AU - Sugahara, Yuma
AU - Sugiyama, Naoshi
AU - Suto, Yasushi
AU - Suyu, Sherry H.
AU - Suzuki, Nao
AU - Tait, Philip J.
AU - Takada, Masahiro
AU - Takata, Tadafumi
AU - Tamura, Naoyuki
AU - Tanaka, Manobu M.
AU - Tanaka, Masaomi
AU - Tanaka, Masayuki
AU - Tanaka, Yoko
AU - Terai, Tsuyoshi
AU - Terashima, Yuichi
AU - Toba, Yoshiki
AU - Tominaga, Nozomu
AU - Toshikawa, Jun
AU - Turner, Edwin L.
AU - Uchida, Tomohisa
AU - Uchiyama, Hisakazu
AU - Umetsu, Keiichi
AU - Uraguchi, Fumihiro
AU - Urata, Yu Ji
AU - Usuda, Tomonori
AU - Utsumi, Yousuke
AU - Wang, Shiang Yu
AU - Wang, Wei Hao
AU - Wong, Kenneth C.
AU - Yabe, Kiyoto
AU - Yamada, Yoshihiko
AU - Yamanoi, Hitomi
AU - Yasuda, Naoki
AU - Yeh, Sherry
AU - Yonehara, Atsunori
AU - Yuma, Suraphong
N1 - Funding Information: The Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) collaboration includes the astronomical communities of Japan and Taiwan, and Princeton University. The HSC instrumentation and software were developed by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU), the University of Tokyo, the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), the Academia Sinica Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics in Taiwan (ASIAA), and Princeton University. Funding was contributed by the FIRST program from Japanese Cabinet Office, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), the Toray Science Foundation, NAOJ, Kavli IPMU, KEK, ASIAA, and Princeton University. This paper makes use of software developed for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. We thank the LSST Project for making their code available as free software at 〈http://dm.lsst.org〉. Funding Information: This work is supported in part by JSPS KAKENHI (Grant Number JP 15H03654) as well as MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (15H05887, 15H05892, 15H05893, 15K21733). Funding Information: The Pan-STARRS1 Surveys (PS1) have been made possible through contributions of the Institute for Astronomy, the University of Hawaii, the Pan-STARRS Project Office, the Max-Planck Society and its participating institutes, the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, The Johns Hopkins University, Durham University, the University of Edinburgh, Queen’s University Belfast, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network Incorporated, the National Central University of Taiwan, the Space Telescope Science Institute, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Grant No. NNX08AR22G issued through the Planetary Science Division of the NASA Science Mission Directorate, the National Science Foundation under Grant No. AST-1238877, the University of Maryland, and Eotvos Lorand University (ELTE) and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Funding Information: The Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) collaboration includes the astronomical communities of Japan and Taiwan, and Princeton University. The HSC instrumentation and software were developed by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU), the University of Tokyo, the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), the Academia Sinica Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics in Taiwan (ASIAA), and Princeton University. Funding was contributed by the FIRST program from Japanese Cabinet Office, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), the Toray Science Foundation, NAOJ, Kavli IPMU, KEK, ASIAA, and Princeton University. This paper makes use of software developed for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. We thank the LSST Project for making their code available as free software at (http://dm.lsst.org). The Pan-STARRS1 Surveys (PS1) have been made possible through contributions of the Institute for Astronomy, the University of Hawaii, the Pan-STARRS Project Office, the Max-Planck Society and its participating institutes, the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, The Johns Hopkins University, Durham University, the University of Edinburgh, Queen's University Belfast, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network Incorporated, the National Central University of Taiwan, the Space Telescope Science Institute, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Grant No. NNX08AR22G issued through the Planetary Science Division of the NASA Science Mission Directorate, the National Science Foundation under Grant No. AST-1238877, the University of Maryland, and Eotvos Lorand University (ELTE) and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Based on data collected at the Subaru Telescope and retrieved from the HSC data archive system, which is operated by Subaru Telescope and Astronomy Data Center at National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. This work is supported in part by JSPS KAKENHI (Grant Number JP 15H03654) as well as MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (15H05887, 15H05892, 15H05893, 15K21733). Publisher Copyright: © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Astronomical Society of Japan. All rights reserved.
PY - 2018/1
Y1 - 2018/1
N2 - Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) is a wide-field imaging camera on the prime focus of the 8.2-m Subaru telescope on the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii. A team of scientists from Japan, Taiwan, and Princeton University is using HSC to carry out a 300-night multi-band imaging survey of the high-latitude sky. The survey includes three layers: the Wide layer will cover 1400 deg2 in five broad bands (grizy), with a 5 σ point-source depth of r ≈ 26. The Deep layer covers a total of 26 deg2 in four fields, going roughly a magnitude fainter, while the UltraDeep layer goes almost a magnitude fainter still in two pointings of HSC (a total of 3.5 deg2). Here we describe the instrument, the science goals of the survey, and the survey strategy and data processing. This paper serves as an introduction to a special issue of the Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, which includes a large number of technical and scientific papers describing results from the early phases of this survey.
AB - Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) is a wide-field imaging camera on the prime focus of the 8.2-m Subaru telescope on the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii. A team of scientists from Japan, Taiwan, and Princeton University is using HSC to carry out a 300-night multi-band imaging survey of the high-latitude sky. The survey includes three layers: the Wide layer will cover 1400 deg2 in five broad bands (grizy), with a 5 σ point-source depth of r ≈ 26. The Deep layer covers a total of 26 deg2 in four fields, going roughly a magnitude fainter, while the UltraDeep layer goes almost a magnitude fainter still in two pointings of HSC (a total of 3.5 deg2). Here we describe the instrument, the science goals of the survey, and the survey strategy and data processing. This paper serves as an introduction to a special issue of the Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, which includes a large number of technical and scientific papers describing results from the early phases of this survey.
KW - Cosmology: observations
KW - Galaxies: general
KW - Large-scale structure of universe
KW - Surveys
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