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Project overview and update on ULTIMATE-Subaru: the next-generation wide-field AO instrument for the Subaru telescope

  • Yosuke Minowa*
  • , Yusei Koyama
  • , Masayuki Akiyama
  • , Sadman Ali
  • , Takamasa Bando
  • , Joshua Carter
  • , David Chandler
  • , Chi Yi Chou
  • , Jesse Cranney
  • , Celine D'Orgeville
  • , Yutaka Hayano
  • , Takashi Hattori
  • , Roger Haynes
  • , Dionne Haynes
  • , Angela Hernandez Delgado
  • , Nicholas Herrald
  • , Masayuki Hirabayashi
  • , Junichi Katakura
  • , Masahiko Kimura
  • , Tadayuki Kodama
  • Masahiro Konishi, Andrew Kruse, Noelia Martinez Rey, Kumiko Morihana, Masaki Morita, Kentaro Motohara, Yoshiyuki Obuchi, Hajime Ogane, Hirofumi Okita, Yoshito Ono, Shin Oya, Naohisa Sato, Yuhei Takagi, Hideki Takami, Ichi Tanaka, Yoko Tanaka, Koki Terao, Chihiro Tokoku, Fumihiro Uraguchi, Lu Wang, Shiang Yu Wang, Kenshi Yanagisawa, Hiroshige Yoshida, Michitoshi Yoshida
*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

ULTIMATE-Subaru is the next-generation facility instrument program of the Subaru Telescope which will extend the existing Subaru's wide-field survey capability to the near-infrared wavelength. The ULTIMATE-Subaru instrument suite includes Ground-Layer Adaptive Optics (GLAO) and wide-field near-infrared instruments, aiming to provide ∼0.2 arcsec image size at K band (2.2 µm) over 20 arcmin diameter field of view at the Cassegrain focus. The planned first light instrument is a Wide-Field Imager (WFI), which covers a 14 × 14 square arcmin field of view from 0.9 to 2.5 µm in wavelength. GLAO and WFI are currently in the final design phase, aiming to start the commissioning observations at the telescope in 2028. In parallel to the development for ULTIMATE wide-field instruments, there are ongoing activities to develop a narrow-field wide-band spectrograph (NINJA) together with a Laser Tomography AO system (ULTIMATE-START) utilizing the Adaptive Secondary Mirror and the Laser Guide Star Facility being developed for the GLAO system. In this presentation, an overview of the ULTIMATE-SUBARU instruments, their current status, and future prospects will be presented.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationGround-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X
EditorsJulia J. Bryant, Kentaro Motohara, Joel R. Vernet
PublisherSPIE
Volume13096
ISBN (Electronic)9781510675155
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024
EventGround-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X 2024 - Yokohama, Japan
Duration: 16 Jun 202421 Jun 2024

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume13096
ISSN (Print)0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)1996-756X

Conference

ConferenceGround-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X 2024
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityYokohama
Period16/06/2421/06/24

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