Suprime Cam: Subaru prime focus camera

Yutaka Komiyama; Satoshi Miyazaki; Masafumi Yagi; Naoki Yasuda; Sadanori Okamura; Masaki Sekiguchi; Mamoru Doi; Kazuhiro Shimasaku; Fumiaki Nakata; Hisanori Furusawa; Masahiko Kimura; Masami Ouchi; Masaru Hamabe; Hidehiko Nakaya

doi:10.1117/12.460911

7 March 2003 Suprime-Cam: Subaru prime focus camera

Yutaka Komiyama, Satoshi Miyazaki, Masafumi Yagi, Naoki Yasuda, Sadanori Okamura, Masaki Sekiguchi, Mamoru Doi, Kazuhiro Shimasaku, Fumiaki Nakata, Hisanori Furusawa, Masahiko Kimura, Masami Ouchi, Masaru Hamabe, Hidehiko Nakaya

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Proceedings Volume 4841, Instrument Design and Performance for Optical/Infrared Ground-based Telescopes; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.460911
Event: Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 2002, Waikoloa, Hawai'i, United States

Abstract

The Suprime-Cam is a CCD camera which is attached to the prime focus of the Subaru Telescope. Ten MIT/LL CCDs are tiled with small gaps to realize large field of view (34' x 27') with 0.2 arcsec sampling. This makes the Suprime-Cam very powerful and unique instrument among 8-10m class telescopes. We present basic design, key techniques, current status and performance of the Suprime-Cam. We also mention ongoing survey programs with the Suprime-Cam, followed by future upgrade plans of the camera.

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Yutaka Komiyama, Satoshi Miyazaki, Masafumi Yagi, Naoki Yasuda, Sadanori Okamura, Masaki Sekiguchi, Mamoru Doi, Kazuhiro Shimasaku, Fumiaki Nakata, Hisanori Furusawa, Masahiko Kimura, Masami Ouchi, Masaru Hamabe, and Hidehiko Nakaya "Suprime-Cam: Subaru prime focus camera", Proc. SPIE 4841, Instrument Design and Performance for Optical/Infrared Ground-based Telescopes, (7 March 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.460911

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