Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) for the Subaru telescope: overview, recent progress, and future perspectives

Naoyuki Tamura , Naruhisa Takato , Atsushi Shimono , Yuki Moritani , Kiyoto Yabe , Yuki Ishizuka , Akitoshi Ueda , Yukiko Kamata , Hrand Aghazarian , Stéphane Arnouts , Gabriel Barban , Robert H. Barkhouser , Renato C. Borges , David F. Braun , Michael A. Carr , Pierre-Yves Chabaud , Yin-Chang Chang , Hsin-Yo Chen , Masashi Chiba Chiba , Richard C. Y. Chou , You-Hua Chu , Judith G. Cohen , Rodrigo P. de Almeida , Antonio C. de Oliveira , Ligia S. de Oliveira , Richard G. Dekany , Kjetil Dohlen , Jesulino B. dos Santos , Leandro H. dos Santos , Richard S. Ellis , Maximilian Fabricius , Didier Ferrand , Décio Ferreira , Mirek Golebiowski , Jenny E. Greene , Johannes Gross , James E. Gunn , Randolph Hammond , Albert Harding , Murdock Hart , Timothy M. Heckman , Christopher M. Hirata , Paul Ho , Stephen C. Hope , Larry Hovland , Shu-Fu Hsu , Yen-Shan Hu , Ping-Jie Huang , Marc Jaquet , Yipeng Jing , Jennifer Karr , Masahiko Kimura , Matthew E. King , Eiichiro Komatsu , Vincent Le Brun , O. Le Fèvre , Arnaud Le Fur , F. Madec , P. Mao , L. S. Marrara , C. Mendes De Oliveira , Y. Minowa , C. Morantz , H. Murayama , G. J. Murray , Y. Ohyama , J. Orndorff , S. Pascal , J. M. Pereira , D. J. Reiley , M. Reinecke , A. Ritter , M. Roberts , M. A. Schwochert , M. D. Seiffert , S. A. Smee , L. Sodre , D. N. Spergel , A. J. Steinkraus , M. A. Strauss , C. Surace , Y. Suto , N. Suzuki , J. Swinbank , P. J. Tait , M. Takada , T. Tamura , Y. Tanaka , L. Tresse , O. Verducci , D. Vibert (1) , C. Vidal (1) , S.-Y. Wang , C.-Y. Wen , C.-H. Yan , N. Yasuda

1 LAM - Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille

PFS (Prime Focus Spectrograph), a next generation facility instrument on the 8.2-meter Subaru Telescope, is a very wide-field, massively multiplexed, optical and near-infrared spectrograph. Exploiting the Subaru prime focus, 2394 reconfigurable fibers will be distributed over the 1.3 deg field of view. The spectrograph has been designed with 3 arms of blue, red, and near-infrared cameras to simultaneously observe spectra from 380nm to 1260nm in one exposure at a resolution of∼1.6−2.7 A. An international collaboration is developing this instrument under the initiative of Kavli IPMU. The project is now going into the construction phase aiming at undertaking system integration in 2017-2018 and subsequently carrying out engineering operations in 2018-2019. This article gives an overview of the instrument, current project status and future paths forward.

Keywords: Multi-object spectroscopy; Optical and near-infrared spectroscopy; Optical spectroscopy; Near-infrared spectroscopy; International collaboration; Optical fibers; Wide-field instrument; Future instruments; Subaru Telescope

Domains: Astrophysics [astro-ph]; Computer Science [cs]

Naoyuki Tamura, Naruhisa Takato, Atsushi Shimono, Yuki Moritani, Kiyoto Yabe, et al.. Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) for the Subaru telescope: overview, recent progress, and future perspectives. Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI, SPIE, 2016, Unknown, Unknown Region. pp.99081M, ⟨10.1117/12.2232103⟩. ⟨hal-01428082⟩