Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) for the Subaru Telescope: Overview, recent progress, and future perspectives
Creators: name: Tamura, Naoyuki
name: Takato, Naruhisa
name: Shimono, Atsushi
name: Moritani, Yuki
name: Yabe, Kiyoto
name: Ishizuka, Yuki
name: Ueda, Akitoshi
name: Kamata, Yukiko
name: Aghazarian, Hrand
name: Arnouts, Stephane
name: Barban, Gabriel
name: Barkhouser, Robert H.
name: Borges, Renato C.
name: Braun, David F.
name: Carr, Michael A.
name: Chabaud, Pierre-Yves
name: Chang, Yin-Chang
name: Chen, Hsin-Yo
name: Chiba, Masashi
name: Chou, Richard C. Y.
name: Chu, You-Hua
name: Cohen, Judith G.
name: de Almeida, Rodrigo P.
name: de Oliveira, Antonio C.
name: de Oliveira, Ligia S.
name: Dekany, Richard G.
name: Dohlen, Kjetil
name: Santos, Jesulino B. dos
name: Santos, Leandro H. dos
name: Ellis, Richard S.
name: Fabricius, Maximilian
name: Ferrand, Didier
name: Ferreira, Decio
name: Golebiowski, Mirek
name: Greene, Jenny E.
name: Gross, Johannes
name: Gunn, James E.
name: Hammond, Randolph
name: Harding, Albert
name: Hart, Murdock
name: Heckman, Timothy M.
name: Hirata, Christopher M.
name: Ho, Paul
name: Hope, Stephen C.
name: Hovland, Larry
name: Hsu, Shu-Fu
name: Hu, Yen-Shan
name: Huang, Ping-Jie
name: Jaquet, Marc
name: Jing, Yipeng
name: Karr, Jennifer
name: Kimura, Masahiko
name: King, Matthew E.
name: Komatsu, Eiichiro
name: Brun, Vincent Le
name: Fevre, Olivier Le
name: Fur, Arnaud Le
name: Mignant, David Le
name: Ling, Hung-Hsu
name: Loomis, Craig P.
name: Lupton, Robert H.
name: Madec, Fabrice
name: Mao, Peter
name: Marrara, Lucas S.
name: de Oliveira, Claudia Mendes
name: Minowa, Yosuke
name: Morantz, Chaz N.
name: Murayama, Hitoshi
name: Murray, Graham J.
name: Ohyama, Youichi
name: Orndorff, Joseph
name: Pascal, Sandrine
name: Pereira, Jefferson M.
name: Reiley, Daniel J.
name: Reinecke, Martin
name: Ritter, Andreas
name: Roberts, Mitsuko
name: Schwochert, Mark A.
name: Seiffert, Michael D.
name: Smee, Stephen A.
name: Sodre, Laerte
name: Spergel, David N.
name: Steinkraus, Aaron J.
name: Strauss, Michael A.
name: Surace, Christian
name: Suto, Yasushi
name: Suzuki, Nao
name: Swinbank, John
name: Tait, Philip J.
name: Takada, Masahiro
name: Tamura, Tomonori
name: Tanaka, Yoko
name: Tresse, Laurence
name: Verducci, Orlando
name: Vibert, Didier
name: Vidal, Clement
name: Wang, Shiang-Yu
name: Wen, Chih-Yi
name: Yan, Chi-Hung
name: Yasuda, Naoki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: 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 ~1.6-2.7A. 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.
description: 17 pages, 10 figures. Proceeding of SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016