The Hyper Suprime-Cam SSP Survey: Overview and Survey Design
Creators: name: Aihara, H.
name: Arimoto, N.
name: Armstrong, R.
name: Arnouts, S.
name: Bahcall, N. A.
name: Bickerton, S.
name: Bosch, J.
name: Bundy, K.
name: Capak, P. L.
name: Chan, J. H. H.
name: Chiba, M.
name: Coupon, J.
name: Egami, E.
name: Enoki, M.
name: Finet, F.
name: Fujimori, H.
name: Fujimoto, S.
name: Furusawa, H.
name: Furusawa, J.
name: Goto, T.
name: Goulding, A.
name: Greco, J. P.
name: Greene, J. E.
name: Gunn, J. E.
name: Hamana, T.
name: Harikane, Y.
name: Hashimoto, Y.
name: Hattori, T.
name: Hayashi, M.
name: Hayashi, Y.
name: Hełminiak, K. G.
name: Higuchi, R.
name: Hikage, C.
name: Ho, P. T. P.
name: Hsieh, B. -C.
name: Huang, K.
name: Huang, S.
name: Ikeda, H.
name: Imanishi, M.
name: Inoue, A. K.
name: Iwasawa, K.
name: Iwata, I.
name: Jaelani, A. T.
name: Jian, H. -Y.
name: Kamata, Y.
name: Karoji, H.
name: Kashikawa, N.
name: Katayama, N.
name: Kawanomoto, S.
name: Kayo, I.
name: Koda, J.
name: Koike, M.
name: Kojima, T.
name: Komiyama, Y.
name: Konno, A.
name: Koshida, S.
name: Koyama, Y.
name: Kusakabe, H.
name: Leauthaud, A.
name: Lee, C. -H.
name: Lin, L.
name: Lin, Y. -T.
name: Lupton, R. H.
name: Mandelbaum, R.
name: Matsuoka, Y.
name: Medezinski, E.
name: Mineo, S.
name: Miyama, S.
name: Miyatake, H.
name: Miyazaki, S.
name: Momose, R.
name: More, A.
name: More, S.
name: Moritani, Y.
name: Moriya, T. J.
name: Morokuma, T.
name: Mukae, S.
name: Murata, R.
name: Murayama, H.
name: Nagao, T.
name: Nakata, F.
name: Niida, M.
name: Niikura, H.
name: Nishizawa, A. J.
name: Obuchi, Y.
name: Oguri, M.
name: Oishi, Y.
name: Okabe, N.
name: Okura, Y.
name: Ono, Y.
name: Onodera, M.
name: Onoue, M.
name: Osato, K.
name: Ouchi, M.
name: Price, P. A.
name: Pyo, T. -S.
name: Sako, M.
name: Okamoto, S.
name: Sawicki, M.
name: Shibuya, T.
name: Shimasaku, K.
name: Shimono, A.
name: Shirasaki, M.
name: Silverman, J. D.
name: Simet, M.
name: Speagle, J.
name: Spergel, D. N.
name: Strauss, M. A.
name: Sugahara, Y.
name: Sugiyama, N.
name: Suto, Y.
name: Suyu, S. H.
name: Suzuki, N.
name: Tait, P. J.
name: Takata, T.
name: Takada, M.
name: Tamura, N.
name: Tanaka, M. M.
name: Tanaka, M.
name: Tanaka, M.
name: Tanaka, Y.
name: Terai, T.
name: Terashima, Y.
name: Toba, Y.
name: Toshikawa, J.
name: Turner, E. L.
name: Uchida, T.
name: Uchiyama, H.
name: Umetsu, K.
name: Uraguchi, F.
name: Urata, Y.
name: Usuda, T.
name: Utsumi, Y.
name: Wang, S. -Y.
name: Wang, W. -H.
name: Wong, K. C.
name: Yabe, K.
name: Yamada, Y.
name: Yamanoi, H.
name: Yasuda, N.
name: Yeh, S.
name: Yonehara, A.
name: Yuma, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) is a wide-field imaging camera on the prime focus of the 8.2m Subaru telescope on the summit of Maunakea 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 deg$^2$ in five broad bands ($grizy$), with a $5\,σ$ point-source depth of $r \approx 26$. The Deep layer covers a total of 26~deg$^2$ 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 deg$^2$). 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.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures, 5 tables. Corrected for a typo in the coordinates of HSC-Wide spring equatorial field in Table 5