Subaru Telescope
(Subaru)
(8.2 meter telescope in Hawaii)
Subaru Telescope is an 8 meter reflector telescope
of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ).
The telescope is located in Hawaii on Mauna Kea.
It began operation in 1998, having the world's largest
monolithic mirror until surpassed in 2005.
Instruments:
Some decommissioned instruments:
- AO36 - 36-element AO system.
- CIAO - Coronagraphic Imager.
- COMICS - Cooled Mid Infrared Camera and Spectrograph.
- HiCIAO - High-contrasts Coronagraphic Imager and Adaptive Optics.
- OHS/CISCO - OH-Airglow Suppressor/Cooled Infrared Spectrograph and Camera for OHS
- Kyoto3DII - Kyoto tridimensional spectrograph II.
- FMOS - Fiber Multi-object Spectrograph.
- Suprime-Cam - decommissioned in 2017, replaced by HSC.
- SWIMS - Simultaneous-color Wide-field Infrared Multi-object Spectrograph.
In development is PFS (for Prime Focus Spectrograph),
designed for galaxy surveys for cosmology research.
It will collect visible light and near infrared
using 2400 optical fibers to simultaneously observe multiple targets.
It has three arms, each covering a different band,
which image the same slit plane simultaneously.
Commissioning began in 2021 with hopes of scientific observation in 2024.
Among the surveys carried out on the Subaru Telescope
is HSC-SSP (Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program).
(telescope,reflector,visible light,infrared,ground,Hawaii)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subaru_Telescope
http://www.naoj.org/en/
http://oir.asiaa.sinica.edu.tw/subaru/pfs.php
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021PJAB...97..337I/abstract
https://pfs.ipmu.jp/
Referenced by pages:
Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA)
AEGIS
angular resolution
aperture masking interferometry (AMI)
extreme adaptive optics (ExAO)
HRS
Magellanic Analog Dwarf Companions And Stellar Halos (MADCASH)
Mauna Kea
Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO)
monolithic mirror
multi-object spectrograph
Nasmyth telescope
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ)
PALMS
prime focus
protoplanetary disk (PPD)
reflector telescope
Ritchey-Chrétien telescope (RCT)
segmented mirror
Subaru Deep Field (SDF)
Subaru PFS
Subaru XMM-Newton Deep Survey (SXDS)
University of Tokyo Atacama Observatory (TAO)
Wide-field Multi-object Spectrograph (WFMOS)
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