Dr. Christian Surace Profile

Dr. Christian Surace

at Lab d'Astrophysique de Marseille

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Publications (22)

Proceedings Article | 15 August 2024 Presentation + Paper

Presentation + Paper

Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) for Subaru Telescope: progressing final steps to science operation

Naoyuki Tamura, Kiyoto Yabe, Shintaro Koshida, Yuki Moritani, Masayuki Tanaka, Miho Ishigaki, Yuki Ishizuka, Yukiko Kamata, Ali Allaoui, Akira Arai, Stéphane Arnouts, Rudy Barette, Robert Barkhouser, Eddie Bergeron, Patrick Blanchard, Neven Caplar, Michael Carle, Pierre-Yves Chabaud, Yin-Chang Chang, Hsin-Yo Chen, Richard C. Chou, Judith Cohen, Ricardo Costa, Thibaut Crauchet, Rodorigo de Almeida, Antonio de Oliveira, Ligia de Oliveira, Kjetil Dohlen, Leandro dos Santos, László Dobos, Richard Ellis, Steve Ertel, Maximilian Fabricius, Décio Ferreira, Hisanori Furusawa, Wilfred Gee, Javier Garciá-Carpio, Roman Gerasimov, Mirek Golebiowski, Aidan Gray, James Gunn, ChangHoon Hahn, Satoshi Hamano, Randolph Hammond, Albert Harding, Takashi Hattori, Kota Hayashi, Wanqiu He, Timothy Heckman, Stephen Hope, Shu-Fu Hsu, Pin-Jie Huang, Marc Jaquet, Eric Jeschke, Christian Jespersen, Yipeng Jing, Russell Kackley, Jennifer Karr, Satoshi Kawanomoto, Masahiko Kimura, Evan Kirby, Michitaro Koike, Eiichiro Komatsu, Yusei Koyama, Vincent Le Brun, Arnaud Le Fur, David Le Mignant, Gerald Lemson, Yen-Ting Lin, Hung-Hsu Ling, Craig Loomis, Robert Lupton, Fabrice Madec, Danilo Marchesini, Lucas Marrara, Dmitry Medvedev, Sogo Mineo, Arik Mitschang, Satoshi Miyazaki, Kumiko Morihana, Takahiro Morishima, Hitoshi Murayama, Graham Murray, Sakurako Okamoto, Hirofumi Okita, Masato Onodera, Vera Passegger, Joshua Peebles, Paul Price, Tae-Soo Pyo, Lucio Ramos, Daniel Reiley, Martin Reinecke, Mitsuko Roberts, Josemar Rosa, Julien Rousselle, Kody Rubio, Kiaina Schubert, Michael Seiffert, Jared Siegel, Stephen Smee, Laerte Sodré, Michael Strauss, Tomomi Sunayama, Christian Surace, Masahiro Takada, Yuhei Takagi, Ichi Tanaka, Yoko Tanaka, Aniruddha Thakar, Didier Vibert, Shiang-Yu Wang, Chih-Yi Wen, Suzanne Werner, Matthew Wung, Chi-Hung Yan, Naoki Yasuda, Hiroshige Yoshida

Proceedings Volume 13096, 1309605 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3015967

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Equipment, Engineering, Cameras, Calibration, Observatories, Stars, Near infrared, Observational astronomy, Spectrographs

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The instrumentation of the Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS), a next generation facility instrument on the Subaru telescope, is now in the final phase of its commissioning process and its general, open-use operations for sciences will provisionally start in 2025. The instrument enables simultaneous spectroscopy with 2386 individual fibers distributed over a very wide (∼1.3 degrees in diameter) field of view on the Subaru’s prime focus. The spectra cover a wide range of wavelengths from 380nm to 1260nm in one exposure in the Low-Resolution (LR) mode (while the visible red channel has the Medium-Resolution (MR) mode as well that covers 710−885nm). The system integration activities at the observatory on Maunakea in Hawaii have been continuing since the arrival of the Metrology Camera System in 2018. On-sky engineering tests and observations have also been carried out continually since September 2021 and, despite various difficulties in interlacing commissioning processes with development activities on the schedule and addressing some major issues on hardware and software, the team successfully observed many targeted stars as intended over the entire field of view (Engineering First Light) in September 2022. Then in parallel to the arrival, integration and commissioning of more hardware components, validations and optimizations of the performance and operation of the instrument are ongoing. The accuracy of the fiber positioning process and the speed of the fiber reconfiguration process have been recently confirmed to be ∼ 20−30μm for 95% of allocated fibers, and ∼130 seconds, respectively. While precise quantitative analyses are still in progress, the measured throughput has been confirmed to be consistent with the model where the information from various sub-components and sub-assemblies is integrated. Long integration of relatively faint objects are being taken to validate an expected increase of signal-to-noise ratio as more exposures are taken and co-added without any serious systematic errors from, e.g., sky subtraction process. The PFS science operation will be carried out in a queue mode by default and various developments, implementations and validations have been underway accordingly in parallel to the instrument commissioning activities. Meetings and sessions are arranged continually with the communities of potential PFS users on multiple scales, and discussions are iterated for mutual understanding and possible optimization of the rules and procedures over a wide range of processes such as proposal submission, observation planning, data acquisition and data delivery. The end-to-end processes of queue observations including successive exposures with updated plans based on assessed qualities of the data from past observations are being tested during engineering observations, and further optimizations are being undertaken. In this contribution, a top-level summary of these achievements and ongoing progresses and future perspectives will be provided.

Proceedings Article | 18 July 2024 Presentation + Paper

Presentation + Paper

MOSAIC at the ELT: a unique instrument for the largest ground-based telescope

Roser Pelló, Mathieu Puech, Éric Prieto, Myriam Rodrigues, Rubén Sanchez-Janssen, Gavin Dalton, Franck Ducret, Kacem El Hadi, María García-Vargas, Jeff Lynn, Nazim Bharmal, Diane Chapuis, Michel Dupieux, Clément Hottier, Marie Larrieu, Laurent Martin, Meghna Mohamed, Tim Morris, Ana Pérez, Walter Seifert, Wenli Xu, Simon Morris, Lex Kaper, Jesús Gallego, Jose Afonso, Beatriz Barbuy, Thierry Contini, Alexis Finoguenov, Susan Kassin, Christopher Miller, Göran Ostlin, Laura Pentericci, Daniel Schaerer, Matthias Steinmetz, Bodo Ziegler, Ricardo Araujo, Joar Brynnel, Bruno Castilho, Christopher Conselice, Nick Cvetojevic, Christopher Davison, Julien Dejonghe, Mirka Dessauges-Zavadsky, Kjetil Dohlen, Décio Ferreira, Armando Gil de Paz, Thiago Gonçalves, Isabelle Guinouard, Matthew Hayes, Derek Ives, Annemieke Janssen, Carol Kehrig, Andreas Kelz, Davor Krajnović, Audrey Lanotte, Nicolas Laporte, Philippe Laporte, Soren Larsen, Bertran Lemasle, Ian Lewis, Jiang-Tao Li, Elena Pancino, Matthew Pieri, Christian Surace, Markus Thurneysen, Susanna Vergani, François Wildi, Fernando Álvarez Moreno, Raziye Artan, Mathilde Beaulieu, Eva Besada, Arjan Bik, Charlotte Bond, Mohamed Bouri, Jérémie Boy, David Bramall, Sarah Brands, Antonio Braulio, Tim Butterley, Cristina Cabello, Marina Calero de Ory, Rocio Calvo, Africa Castillo Morales, Zalpha Challita, Stephen Chittik, Andrés Curto Maldonado, Fátima De Frontat, Elfi Dijkstra, Eddy Elswijk, Gilles Fasola, Carmen Feiz, Fabio Fialho, Johan Floriot, Paolo Franzetti, Marco Fumana, Luis Gabarra, Lia Garcia, Adriana Gargiulo, Julien Gaudemard, Domenico Giannone, Polly Gill, Alicia Gomez-Gutierrez, Carole Gouvret, Alan Guenther, Douglas Harvey, José Miguel Ibáñez Mengual, Jorge Iglesias, Yevgeniy Ivanisenko, Peter Kunst, Sander Kwast, Kieran Leschinski, Gianluca Licausi, Sebastiano Ligori, Juan Antonio López Orozco, Adam Lowe, Mike Macintosh, Héctor Magan, Manuel Maldonado, Thomas Marquart, Lucimara Martins, Marisole Melara, Jens Melinder, Jeannet Molema, David Montgomery, María Morales, Francisco Najarro, Nicolas Nardetto, Ramon Navarro, Antoine Ottomani, Tony Pamplona, Cyril Pannetier, Phil Parr-Burman, Sergio Pascual, María Peñataro, Isabel Pérez Grande, Jan Rinze Peterzon, Javier Piqueras, Nicolai Piskunov, Ramon Rodriguez Cardoso, Sergio Rodriguez Venzal, Rick Romp, Hossein Rostami, Frédéric Royer, Daniel Sablowski, Ainhoa Sanchez, Ernesto Sánchez Blanco, Ellen Schalling, Jurgen Schmoll, Noah Schwartz, Jay Stephan, Sylvestre Taburet, David Terrett, Ignacio Torralbo, Niels Tromp, Gerardo Veredas, Yanbin Yang, Alec York, Werner Zeilinger

Proceedings Volume 13096, 1309615 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3019047

KEYWORDS: Equipment, Galactic astronomy, Spectrographs, Near infrared, Spectral resolution, Telescopes, Stars, James Webb Space Telescope, Design, Extragalactic astronomy

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SPIE Journal Paper | 4 January 2024

Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer exposure time calculator for end-to-end simulator: to optimizing spectrograph design and observing simulation

Tae-Geun Ji, Jennifer Sobeck, Changgon Kim, Hojae Ahn, Mingyeong Yang, Taeeun Kim, Sungwook E. Hong, Kei Szeto, Jennifer L. Marshall, Christian Surace, Soojong Pak

JATIS, Vol. 10, Issue 01, 018001, (January 2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.10.1117/1.JATIS.10.1.018001

KEYWORDS: Equipment, Spectroscopy, Spectral resolution, Spectrographs, Lawrencium, Telescopes, Design, Software development, Near infrared, Device simulation

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Proceedings Article | 29 August 2022 Poster + Paper

Poster + Paper

An exposure time calculator for the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer

Tae-Geun Ji, Taeeun Kim, Changgon Kim, Hojae Ahn, Mingyeong Yang, Soojong Pak, Sungwook E. Hong, Jennifer E. Sobeck, Kei Szeto, Jennifer L. Marshall, Christian Surace

Proceedings Volume 12189, 121892N (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2629101

KEYWORDS: Spectral resolution, Signal to noise ratio, Spectroscopy, Optical fibers, Spectrographs, Data modeling, Telescopes, Software development, Lawrencium, Astronomy

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Proceedings Article | 29 August 2022 Presentation + Paper

Presentation + Paper

Development of the Program Execution System Architecture (PESA) for MSE

C. Surace, J. Marshall, J. Sobeck, K. Szeto, K. Ho, T. Vermeulen, L. Wells, C. Wipper, K. Withington

Proceedings Volume 12189, 1218916 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2627162

KEYWORDS: Data modeling, Sensors, Spectroscopy, Data processing, Data archive systems, Calibration, Interfaces, Algorithm development, Environmental sensing, Telescopes

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Proceedings Article | 29 August 2022 Presentation + Paper

Presentation + Paper

Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) for the Subaru Telescope: its start of the last development phase

Naoyuki Tamura, Yuki Moritani, Kiyoto Yabe, Yuki Ishizuka, Yukiko Kamata, Ali Allaoui, Akira Arai, Stéphane Arnouts, Robert Barkhouser, Rudy Barette, Patrick Blanchard, Eddie Bergeron, Neven Caplar, Pierre-Yves Chabaud, Yin-Chang Chang, Hsin-Yo Chen, Chueh-Yi Chou, You-Hua Chu, Judith Cohen, Richardo da Costa, Thibaut Crauchet, Rodrigo de Almeida, Antonio de Oliveira, Ligia de Oliveira, Kjetil Dohlen, Leandro dos Santos, Richard Ellis, Maximilian Fabricius, Décio Ferreira, Hisanori Furusawa, Jahmour Givans, Javier Garciá-Carpio, Mirek Golebiowski, Aidan Gray, James Gunn, Satoshi Hamano, Randolph Hammond, Albert Harding, Kota Hayashi, Wanqiu He, Timothy Heckman, Stephen Hope, Shu-Fu Hsu, Yen-Shan Hu, Pin Jie Huang, Miho Ishigaki, Eric Jeschke, Yipeng Jing, Erin Kado-Fong, Jennifer Karr, Satoshi Kawanomoto, Masahiko Kimura, Michitaro Koike, Eiichiro Komatsu, Shintaro Koshida, Vincent Le Brun, Arnaud Le Fur, David Le Mignant, Romain Lhoussaine, Yen-Ting Lin, Hung-Hsu Ling, Craig Loomis, Robert Lupton, Fabrice Madec, Danilo Marchesini, Edouard Marguerite, Lucas Marrara, Dmitry Medvedev, Sogo Mineo, Satoshi Miyazaki, Takahiro Morishima, Kazumi Murata, Hitoshi Murayama, Graham Murray, Hirofumi Okita, Masato Onodera, Joshua Peebles, Paul Price, Tae-Soo Pyo, Lucio Ramos, Daniel Reiley, Martin Reinecke, Mitsuko Roberts, Josimar Rosa, Julien Rousselle, Mira Sarkis, Michael Seiffert, Kiaina Schubert, Hassan Siddiqui, Stephen Smee, Laerte Sodré, Michael Strauss, Christian Surace, Manuchehr Taghizadeh Popp, Philip Tait, Masahiro Takada, Yuhei Takagi, Masayuki Tanaka, Yoko Tanaka, Aniruddha Thakar, Didier Vibert, Shiang-Yu Wang, Chih-Yi Wen, Suzanne Werner, Matthew Wung, Gerald Lemson, Arik Mitschang, Naoki Yasuda, Hiroshige Yoshida, Chi-Hung Yan, Michitoshi Yoshida, Takuji Yamashita

Proceedings Volume 12184, 1218410 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2628152

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Cameras, Spectrographs, Optical fibers, Observatories, Sensors, Astronomy, Software development, Near infrared, Connectors

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Proceedings Article | 29 August 2022 Poster

Poster

MOSAIC on the ELT: Planification of the instrument AITV

Kacem El Hadi, Kjetil Dohlen, Zalpha Challita, Johan Floriot, Laurent Martin, Tony Pamplona, Marc Jaquet, Franck Ducret, Christian Surace, Myriam Rodrigues, Marie Larrieu, Eric Prieto, Jean-Gabriel Cuby, Mathieu Puech, Lidia Tasca

Proceedings Volume 12184, 121843C (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2629462

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Spectrographs, Molybdenum, Adaptive optics, Stars, Star sensors, Standards development, Sensors, Sensor calibration, Relays

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Proceedings Article | 29 August 2022 Presentation

Presentation

MOSAIC on the ELT: the multi-object spectrograph for the ESO Extremely Large Telescope

Lidia Tasca, Mathieu Puech, Ruben Sanchez-Janssen, Myriam Rodrigues, Gavin Dalton, Eric Prieto, Franck Ducret, Jose Afonso, Beatriz Barbuy, Jean-Gabriel Cuby, Alexis Finoguenov, Jesus Gallego, Jorge Iglesias, Lex Kaper, Susan Kassin, Simon Morris, Christopher Miller, Goran Ostlin, Laura Pentericci, Matthias Steinmetz, Daniel Schaerer, Bodo Ziegler, Joar Brynnel, Bruno Castilho, Africa Castillo-Morales, Christopher Davison, Michel Dupieux, Kjetil Dohlen, Kacem El Hadi, Johan Floriot, Maria Luisa García-Vargas, Armando Gil de Paz, Isabelle Guinouard, Clement Hottier, Marc Jaquet, Annemieke Janssen, Andreas Kelz, Philippe Laporte, Laurent Martin, Marie Larrieu, Ian Lewis, Tim Morris, Ramon Navarro, Ana Perez, Walter Seifert, Christian Surace, Markus Thurneysen, Francois Wildi

Proceedings Volume 12184, 1218422 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630138

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Large telescopes, Galactic astronomy, Astronomical imaging, Stars, Near infrared, Spectroscopes, Near infrared spectroscopy, Molybdenum, Visible radiation

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Proceedings Article | 10 March 2021 Presentation + Paper

Presentation + Paper

Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) for the Subaru telescope: a next-generation facility instrument of the Subaru telescope has started coming

Naoyuki Tamura, Naruhisa Takato, Yuki Moritani, Kiyoto Yabe, Yuki Ishizuka, Yukiko Kamata, Ali Allaoui, Stéphane Arnouts, Robert Barkhouser, Philippe Balard, Rudy Barette, Mohamed Belhadi, Jill Burnham, Neven Caplar, Michael Carr, Pierre-Yves Chabaud, Yin-Chang Chang, Hsin-Yo Chen, Richard Chou, You-Hua Chu, Judith Cohen, Ricardo Costa, Thibaut Crauchet, Rodrigo de Almeida, Antonio de Oliveira, Ligia de Oliveira, Kjetil Dohlen, Leandro dos Santos, Richard Ellis, Maximilian Fabricius, Décio Ferreira, Hisanori Furusawa, Javier Garcia-Carpio, Mirek Golebiowski, Aidan Gray, James Gunn, Albert Harding, Randolph Hammond, Murdock Hart, Timothy Heckman, Stephen Hope, Shu-Fu Hsu, Yen-Sang Hu, Pin-Jie Huang, Marc Jaquet, Eric Jeschke, Yipeng Jing, Erin Kado-Fong, Jennifer Karr, Satoshi Kawanomoto, Masahiko Kimura, Michitaro Koike, Eiichiro Komatsu, Shintaro Koshida, Vincent Le Brun, Olivier Le Fèvre, Arnaud Le Fur, David Le Mignant, Hung-Hsu Ling, Craig Loomis, Robert Lupton, Fabrice Madec, Danilo Marchesini, Edouard Marguerite, Lucas Marrara, Dmitry Medvedev, Sogo Mineo, Hitoshi Murayama, Graham Murray, Youichi Ohyama, Hirofumi Okita, Yuki Okura, Masato Onodera, Joseph Orndorff, Sandrine Pascal, Joshua Peebles, Lucio Ramos, Daniel Reiley, Martin Reinecke, Mitsuko Roberts, Josimar Rosa, Julien Rousselle, Mira Sarkis, Alain Schmitt, Michael Seiffert, Kiaina Schubert, Hassan Siddiqui, Stephen Smee, Laerte Sodré, Michael Strauss, Christian Surace, Manuchehr Taghizadeh-Popp, Philip Tait, Masahiro Takada, Satoshi Takita, Tomonori Tamura, Masayuki Tanaka, Yoko Tanaka, Aniruddha Thakar, Didier Vibert, Shiang-Yu Wang, Chih-Yi Wen, Suzanne Werner, Matthew Wung, Yoshihiko Yamada, Takuji Yamashita, Chi-Hung Yan, Naoki Yasuda, Hiroshige Yoshida, Michitoshi Yoshida

Proceedings Volume 11447, 1144713 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562206

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Telescopes, Cameras, Imaging systems, Multiplexing, Optical fibers, Hardware testing, Metrology, Observatories, Visible radiation

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Presentation + Paper

Presentation + Paper

Designing software for the science operations of Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer

Kei Szeto, Jennifer Marshall, Nicolas Flagey, Kanoa Withington, Christian Surace

Proceedings Volume 11452, 1145207 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562846

KEYWORDS: Spectroscopy, Near infrared spectroscopy, Telescopes, Data archive systems, Data modeling, Multiplexing, Visible radiation, Spectral resolution

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Proceedings Article | 27 July 2018 Presentation + Paper

Presentation + Paper

Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) for the Subaru telescope: ongoing integration and future plans

Naoyuki Tamura, Naruhisa Takato, Atsushi Shimono, Yuki Moritani, Kiyoto Yabe, Yuki Ishizuka, Yukiko Kamata, Akitoshi Ueda, Hrand Aghazarian, Stephané Arnouts, Robert Barkhouser, Philippe Balard, Rudy Barette, Mohamed Belhadi, Jill Burnham, Neven Caplar, Michael Carr, Pierre-Yves Chabaud, Yin-Chang Chang, Hsin-Yo Chen, Chueh-Yi Chou, You-Hua Chu, Judith Cohen, Rodorigo de Almeida, Antonio de Oliveira, Lígia de Oliveira, Richard Dekany, Kjetil Dohlen, Jesulino dos Santos, Leandro dos Santos, Richard Ellis, Maximilian Fabricius, Decio Ferreira, Hisanori Furusawa, Javier Garcia-Carpio, Mirek Golebiowski, Johannes Gross, James Gunn, Randolph Hammond, Albert Harding, Murdock Hart, Timothy Heckman, Paul Ho, Stephen Hope, David Hover, Shu-Fu Hsu, Yen-Shan Hu, Ping-Jie Huang, Sara Jamal, Marc Jaquet, Eric Jeschke, Yipeng Jing, Erin Kado-Fong, Jeniffer Karr, Masahiko Kimura, Matthew King, Michitaro Koike, Eiichiro Komatsu, Vincent Le Brun, Olivier Le Fèvre, Arnaud Le Fur, David Le Mignant, Hung-Hsu Ling, Craig Loomis, Robert Lupton, Fabrice Madec, Peter Mao, Danilo Marchesini, Lucas Marrara, Dmitry Medvedev, Sogo Mineo, Yosuke Minowa, Hitoshi Murayama, Graham Murray, Youichi Ohyama, Masato Onodera, Joseph Orndorff, Sandrine Pascal, Josh Peebles, Guillaume Pernot, Raphael Pourcelot, Daniel Reiley, Martin Reinecke, Mitsuko Roberts, Josimar Rosa, Julien Rousselle, Alain Schmitt, Mark Schwochert, Micheal Seiffert, Hassan Siddiqui, Stephen Smee, Laerte Sodré, Aaron Steinkraus, Michael Strauss, Christian Surace, Philip Tait, Masahiro Takada, Tomonori Tamura, Masayuki Tanaka, Yoko Tanaka, Aniruddha Thakar, Orlando Verducci, Didier Vibert, Shiang-Yu Wang, Zuo Wang, Chih-Yi Wen, Suzanne Werner, Yoshihiko Yamada, Chi-Hung Yan, Naoki Yasuda, Hiroshige Yoshida, Michitoshi Yoshida

Proceedings Volume 10702, 107021C (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2311871

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Spectrographs, Optical fibers, Astronomy, Observatories, Cameras, Imaging systems, Astronomical telescopes, Physics, Prototyping

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Proceedings Article | 9 August 2016 Paper

Paper

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 Barkhouser, Renato Borges, David Braun, Michael Carr, Pierre-Yves Chabaud, Yin-Chang Chang, Hsin-Yo Chen, Masashi Chiba, Richard C. Chou, You-Hua Chu, Judith Cohen, Rodrigo de Almeida, Antonio de Oliveira, Ligia S. de Oliveira, Richard Dekany, Kjetil Dohlen, Jesulino dos Santos, Leandro dos Santos, Richard Ellis, Maximilian Fabricius, Didier Ferrand, Décio Ferreira, Mirek Golebiowski, Jenny Greene, Johannes Gross, James Gunn, Randolph Hammond, Albert Harding, Murdock Hart, Timothy Heckman, Christopher Hirata, Paul Ho, Stephen Hope, Larry Hovland, Shu-Fu Hsu, Yen-Shan Hu, Ping-Jie Huang, Marc Jaquet, Yipeng Jing, Jennifer Karr, Masahiko Kimura, Matthew King, Eiichiro Komatsu, Vincent Le Brun, Olivier Le Fèvre, Arnaud Le Fur, David Le Mignant, Hung-Hsu Ling, Craig Loomis, Robert Lupton, Fabrice Madec, Peter Mao, Lucas Marrara, Claudia Mendes de Oliveira, Yosuke Minowa, Chaz Morantz, Hitoshi Murayama, Graham Murray, Youichi Ohyama, Joseph Orndorff, Sandrine Pascal, Jefferson Pereira, Daniel Reiley, Martin Reinecke, Andreas Ritter, Mitsuko Roberts, Mark Schwochert, Michael Seiffert, Stephen Smee, Laerte Sodre, David Spergel, Aaron Steinkraus, Michael Strauss, Christian Surace, Yasushi Suto, Nao Suzuki, John Swinbank, Philip Tait, Masahiro Takada, Tomonori Tamura, Yoko Tanaka, Laurence Tresse, Orlando Verducci, Didier Vibert, Clement Vidal, Shiang-Yu Wang, Chih-Yi Wen, Chi-Hung Yan, Naoki Yasuda

Proceedings Volume 9908, 99081M (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232103

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Spectrographs, Imaging systems, Cameras, Observatories, Calibration, Astronomy, Stars, Sensors, Galactic astronomy

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SPIE Journal Paper | 23 June 2015 Open Access

Open Access

Prime Focus Spectrograph for the Subaru telescope: massively multiplexed optical and near-infrared fiber spectrograph

Hajime Sugai, Naoyuki Tamura, Hiroshi Karoji, Atsushi Shimono, Naruhisa Takato, Masahiko Kimura, Youichi Ohyama, Akitoshi Ueda, Hrand Aghazarian, Márcio de Arruda, Robert Barkhouser, Charles Bennett, Steve Bickerton, Alexandre Bozier, David Braun, Khanh Bui, Christopher Capocasale, Michael Carr, Bruno Castilho, Yin-Chang Chang, Hsin-Yo Chen, Chueh-Yi Chou, Olivia Dawson, Richard Dekany, Eric Ek, Richard Ellis, Robin English, Didier Ferrand, Décio Ferreira, Charles Fisher, Mirek Golebiowski, James Gunn, Murdock Hart, Timothy Heckman, Paul T. Ho, Stephen Hope, Larry Hovland, Shu-Fu Hsu, Yen-Shan Hu, Pin-Jie Huang, Marc Jaquet, Jennifer Karr, Jason Kempenaar, Matthew King, Olivier Le Fèvre, David Le Mignant, Hung-Hsu Ling, Craig Loomis, Robert Lupton, Fabrice Madec, Peter Mao, Lucas Souza Marrara, Brice Ménard, Chaz Morantz, Hitoshi Murayama, Graham Murray, Antonio Cesar de Oliveira, Claudia L. de Oliveira, Lígia de Oliveira, Joseph Orndorff, Rodrigo M. de Paiva Vilaça, Eamon Partos, Sandrine Pascal, Thomas Pegot-Ogier, Daniel Reiley, Reed Riddle, Leandro dos Santos, Jesulino dos Santos, Mark Schwochert, Michael Seiffert, Stephen Smee, Roger Smith, Ronald Steinkraus, Laerte Sodré, David Spergel, Christian Surace, Laurence Tresse, Clément Vidal, Sébastien Vives, Shiang-Yu Wang, Chih-Yi Wen, Amy Wu, Rosemary Wyse, Chi-Hung Yan

JATIS, Vol. 1, Issue 03, 035001, (June 2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.10.1117/1.JATIS.1.3.035001

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Telescopes, Cameras, Metrology, Microlens, Connectors, Astronomical telescopes, Sensors, Fiber science, Spectral resolution

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Proceedings Article | 8 July 2014 Paper

Paper

Progress with the Prime Focus Spectrograph for the Subaru Telescope: a massively multiplexed optical and near-infrared fiber spectrograph

Hajime Sugai, Naoyuki Tamura, Hiroshi Karoji, Atsushi Shimono, Naruhisa Takato, Masahiko Kimura, Youichi Ohyama, Akitoshi Ueda, Hrand Aghazarian, Marcio de Arruda, Robert Barkhouser, Charles Bennett, Steve Bickerton, Alexandre Bozier, David Braun, Khanh Bui, Christopher Capocasale, Michael Carr, Bruno Castilho, Yin-Chang Chang, Hsin-Yo Chen, Richard Chou, Olivia Dawson, Richard Dekany, Eric Ek, Richard Ellis, Robin English, Didier Ferrand, Décio Ferreira, Charles Fisher, Mirek Golebiowski, James Gunn, Murdock Hart, Timothy Heckman, Paul Ho, Stephen Hope, Larry Hovland, Shu-Fu Hsu, Yen-Sang Hu, Pin Jie Huang, Marc Jaquet, Jennifer Karr, Jason Kempenaar, Matthew King, Olivier Le Fèvre, David Le Mignant, Hung-Hsu Ling, Craig Loomis, Robert Lupton, Fabrice Madec, Peter Mao, Lucas Marrara, Brice Ménard, Chaz Morantz, Hitoshi Murayama, Graham Murray, Antonio Cesar de Oliveira, Claudia de Oliveira, Ligia de Oliveira, Joe Orndorff, Rodrigo de Paiva Vilaça, Eamon Partos, Sandrine Pascal, Thomas Pegot-Ogier, Daniel Reiley, Reed Riddle, Leandro Santos, Jesulino dos Santos, Mark Schwochert, Michael Seiffert, Stephen Smee, Roger Smith, Ronald Steinkraus, Laerte Sodré, David Spergel, Christian Surace, Laurence Tresse, Clément Vidal, Sebastien Vives, Shiang-Yu Wang, Chih-Yi Wen, Amy Wu, Rosie Wyse, Chi-Hung Yan

Proceedings Volume 9147, 91470T (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2054294

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Telescopes, Cameras, Microlens, Metrology, Structured optical fibers, Connectors, Charge-coupled devices, Sensors, Image quality

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The Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) is an optical/near-infrared multi-fiber spectrograph with 2394 science fibers, which are distributed in 1.3 degree diameter field of view at Subaru 8.2-meter telescope. The simultaneous wide wavelength coverage from 0.38 μm to 1.26 μm, with the resolving power of 3000, strengthens its ability to target three main survey programs: cosmology, Galactic archaeology, and galaxy/AGN evolution. A medium resolution mode with resolving power of 5000 for 0.71 μm to 0.89 μm also will be available by simply exchanging dispersers. PFS takes the role for the spectroscopic part of the Subaru Measurement of Images and Redshifts (SuMIRe) project, while Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) works on the imaging part. HSC’s excellent image qualities have proven the high quality of the Wide Field Corrector (WFC), which PFS shares with HSC. The PFS collaboration has succeeded in the project Preliminary Design Review and is now in a phase of subsystem Critical Design Reviews and construction. To transform the telescope plus WFC focal ratio, a 3-mm thick broad-band coated microlens is glued to each fiber tip. The microlenses are molded glass, providing uniform lens dimensions and a variety of refractive-index selection. After successful production of mechanical and optical samples, mass production is now complete. Following careful investigations including Focal Ratio Degradation (FRD) measurements, a higher transmission fiber is selected for the longest part of cable system, while one with a better FRD performance is selected for the fiber-positioner and fiber-slit components, given the more frequent fiber movements and tightly curved structure. Each Fiber positioner consists of two stages of piezo-electric rotary motors. Its engineering model has been produced and tested. After evaluating the statistics of positioning accuracies, collision avoidance software, and interferences (if any) within/between electronics boards, mass production will commence. Fiber positioning will be performed iteratively by taking an image of artificially back-illuminated fibers with the Metrology camera located in the Cassegrain container. The camera is carefully designed so that fiber position measurements are unaffected by small amounts of high special-frequency inaccuracies in WFC lens surface shapes. Target light carried through the fiber system reaches one of four identical fast-Schmidt spectrograph modules, each with three arms. All optical glass blanks are now being polished. Prototype VPH gratings have been optically tested. CCD production is complete, with standard fully-depleted CCDs for red arms and more-challenging thinner fully-depleted CCDs with blue-optimized coating for blue arms. The active damping system against cooler vibration has been proven to work as predicted, and spectrographs have been designed to avoid small possible residual resonances.

Proceedings Article | 24 September 2012 Paper

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SPIRou @ CFHT: data reduction software and simulation tools

Étienne Artigau, François Bouchy, Xavier Delfosse, Xavier Bonfils, Jean-François Donati, Pedro Figueira, Karun Thanjavur, David Lafrenière, René Doyon, Christian Surace, Claire Moutou, Isabelle Boisse, Leslie Saddlemyer, David Loop, Driss Kouach, Francesco Pepe, Christophe Lovis, Olivier Hernandez, Shiang-Yu Wang

Proceedings Volume 8451, 84513I (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926334

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Calibration, Absorption, Device simulation, Error analysis, Image segmentation, Telescopes, Polarization, Zemax, Spectrographs

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Proceedings Article | 24 September 2012 Paper

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Prime focus spectrograph: Subaru's future

Hajime Sugai, Hiroshi Karoji, Naruhisa Takato, Naoyuki Tamura, Atsushi Shimono, Youichi Ohyama, Akitoshi Ueda, Hung-Hsu Ling, Marcio Vital de Arruda, Robert Barkhouser, Charles Bennett, Steve Bickerton, David Braun, Robin Bruno, Michael Carr, João Batista de Carvalho Oliveira, Yin-Chang Chang, Hsin-Yo Chen, Richard Dekany, Tania Pereira Dominici, Richard Ellis, Charles Fisher, James Gunn, Timothy Heckman, Paul T. Ho, Yen-Shan Hu, Marc Jaquet, Jennifer Karr, Masahiko Kimura, Olivier Le Fèvre, David Le Mignant, Craig Loomis, Robert Lupton, Fabrice Madec, Lucas Marrara, Laurent Martin, Hitoshi Murayama, Antonio Cesar de Oliveira, Claudia Mendes de Oliveira, Ligia Souza de Oliveira, Joseph Orndorff, Rodrigo de Paiva Vilaça, Vanessa Macanhan, Eric Prieto, Jesulino Bispo dos Santos, Michael Seiffert, Stephen Smee, Roger Smith, Laerte Sodré, David Spergel, Christian Surace, Sebastien Vives, Shiang-Yu Wang, Chi-Hung Yan

Proceedings Volume 8446, 84460Y (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926954

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Cameras, Telescopes, Microlens, Sensors, Metrology, Galactic astronomy, Data archive systems, Astronomy, Collimators

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Proceedings Article | 11 August 2010 Paper

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The data processing pipelines for the Herschel/SPIRE imaging Fourier transform spectrometer

Trevor Fulton, Jean-Paul Baluteau, George Bendo, Dominique Benielli, Rene Gastaud, Matt Griffin, Steve Guest, Peter Imhof, Tanya Lim, Nanyao Lu, David Naylor, Pasquale Panuzzo, Edward Polehampton, Arnold Schwartz, Christian Surace, Bruce Swinyard, Kevin Xu

Proceedings Volume 7731, 773134 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.858282

KEYWORDS: Spectroscopy, Sensors, Fourier transforms, Data processing, Signal detection, Space telescopes, Telescopes, Astronomy, Spectral resolution, Raster graphics

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Proceedings Article | 6 August 2010 Paper

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In-orbit performance of the Herschel/SPIRE imaging Fourier transform spectrometer

David Naylor, Jean-Paul Baluteau, Mike Barlow, Dominique Benielli, Marc Ferlet, Trevor Fulton, Matthew Griffin, Timothy Grundy, Peter Imhof, Scott Jones, Ken King, Sarah Leeks, Tanya Lim, Nanyao Lu, Gibion Makiwa, Edward Polehampton, Giorgio Savini, Sunil Sidher, Locke Spencer, Christian Surace, Bruce Swinyard, Roger Wesson

Proceedings Volume 7731, 773116 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.856299

KEYWORDS: Spectroscopy, Fourier transforms, Sensors, Spectral resolution, Telescopes, Calibration, Detector arrays, Mirrors, Modulation, Interferometers

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Proceedings Article | 15 July 2008 Paper

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Toward a graphical user interface for the SPIRE spectrometer pipeline

C. Ordenovic, C. Surace, J.P. Baluteau, D. Benielli, P. Davis, T. Fulton

Proceedings Volume 7019, 70191C (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.790547

KEYWORDS: Spectroscopy, Fourier transforms, Human-machine interfaces, Photometry, Data processing, Java, Satellites, Data centers, Calibration, Electroluminescence

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Proceedings Article | 15 July 2008 Paper

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The oversampling mode for CoRoT exo-field observations

C. Surace, R. Alonso, P. Barge, R. Cautain, P. Y. Chabaud, M. Deleuil, T. Fenouillet, J. C. Meunier, C. Moutou

Proceedings Volume 7019, 70193B (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.789334

KEYWORDS: Stars, Planets, Detection and tracking algorithms, Satellites, Signal detection, Databases, Binary data, Space telescopes, Exoplanets, Data processing

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Proceedings Article | 12 July 2008 Paper

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The data processing pipeline for the Herschel/SPIRE imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer

Trevor Fulton, David Naylor, Jean-Paul Baluteau, Matt Griffin, Peter Davis-Imhof, Bruce Swinyard, Tanya Lim, Christian Surace, Dave Clements, Pasquale Panuzzo, Rene Gastaud, Edward Polehampton, Steve Guest, Nanyao Lu, Arnold Schwartz, Kevin Xu

Proceedings Volume 7010, 70102T (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.789850

KEYWORDS: Spectroscopy, Sensors, Fourier transforms, Signal detection, Data processing, Astronomy, Calibration, Space telescopes, Telescopes, Spectral resolution

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Proceedings Article | 16 September 2005 Paper

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Use of a local regularity analysis by a wavelet analysis for glitch detection

C. Ordénovic, C. Surace, B. Torrésani, A. Llebaria, J. Baluteau

Proceedings Volume 5909, 59091U (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.614966

KEYWORDS: Wavelets, Signal detection, Wavelet transforms, Fourier transforms, Statistical analysis, Interference (communication), Detection and tracking algorithms, Device simulation, Space telescopes, Telescopes

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