9th PFS collaboration meeting

  1. Date:
    • Joint sessions: 28 and 29 November 2017
    • Break-out sessions: 27 and 30 November and 1 December 2017
  2. Venue: Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, the University of Tokyo, Japan

Program of joint sessions

Tuesday, 13 December 2016

Time Name Title
08:30 (Breakfast)
09:00 Naoyuki Tamura (Kavli IPMU) Announcements from LOC
09:10 Hitoshi Murayama (Kavli IPMU) Opening remark & PFS collaboration updates
09:35 Naoyuki Tamura (Kavli IPMU) Reports from the project office
10:15 (Break)
10:35 Richard Ellis (ESO) Report of the PFS science meeting in August
11:05 Michitoshi Yoshida (Subaru) Current status of Subaru Telescope & comments to PFS collaboration
11:35 (Conference photo)
12:05 (Lunch)
13:30 Shiang-Yu Wang (ASIAA) Prime Focus Instrument (PFI)
13:50 Shiang-Yu Wang (ASIAA) Metrology camera system (MCS)
14:10 Decio Ferreira (LNA) Fiber system
14:35 Poster short talks
1. Cobra module integration details -- Mitsuko Roberts (Caltech)
2. Cobra FRD testing -- Brent Belland (Caltech)
3. Cobra life time test & analysis -- Dan Reiley (Caltech)
4. FPS, MCS, and fiber Positioning Sequencer closed-loop simulation -- Chi-Hung Yan/ Chih-Yi Wen/ Jeniffer Karr (ASIAA)
5. Tower connector -- Lucas Marrara (Brazillian consotium)
6. Cable B prototype -- Graham Murray (Durham)
7. SpS software development -- Arnaud Le Fur (LAM)
8. Commissioning -- Yuki Moritani (Kavli IPMU)
9. Calibration lamp system -- Jim Gunn (Princeton)
10. Detector characteristics - Murdock Hart (JHU) / Jim Gunn (Princeton)
11. Temporal and spatial variation of sky spectra -- Murdock Hart (JHU)
12. 2D PSF characterization -- Neven Caplar (Princeton)
13. Instrument on-sky sensitivity estimation -- Kiyoto Yabe (Kavli IPMU)
14. IR4, SCR, IR3 at Subaru for PFS spectrograph system -- Tomonori Tamura (Subaru)
15:08 (Break and poster session)
15:50 David Le Mignant (LAM)
Steve Smee (JHU)
Spectrograph System (SpS)
16:20 Atsushi Shimono (Kavli IPMU) Instrument control software
16:40 Naruhisa Takato (Subaru) Subaru's progress for PFS
17:00 Masato Onodera (Subaru) PFS operation from Subaru's perspectives
17:20 Masahiro Takada (Kavli IPMU) HSC SSP survey current status

Wednesday, 14 December 2016

Time Name Title
08:30 (Breakfast)
09:00 Masahiro Takada (Kavli IPMU) Scope of the morning session
09:05 Eiichiro Komatsu (MPA) Updates from Cosmology WG
09:30 (Discussion)
09:40 Masashi Chiba (Tohoku) Updates from Galactic Archaeology WG
10:05 (Discussion)
10:15 (Break)
10:35 Jenny Greene (Princeton) Updates from Galaxy & AGN evolution WG: z=1-2 component
11:00 (Discussion)
11:10 Olivier Le Fevre (LAM) Updates from Galaxy & AGN evolution WG: z=2-7 + IGM tomography component
11:35 (Discussion)
11:45 Kiyoto Yabe (Kavli IPMU) Survey simulations
12:15 (Discussion)
12:25 (Lunch)
14:00 Naoyuki Tamura (Kavli IPMU) Scope of the afternoon session & introduction for sky subtraction mini-session
14:15 Robert Lupton (Princeton) 2D data reduction pipeline & comments on sky subtraction
14:45 (Discussion)
○ sky subtraction performance
○ guidelines for on-sky instrument sensitivity
15:00 (Break)
15:20 Johannes Gross (JPL) Fiber positioner system
15:50 Maximilian Fabricius (MPE) Fiber allocation & survey optimization
16:15 Stephane Arnouts (LAM) 1D data reduction pipeline
16:40 Masayuki Tanaka (NAOJ) HSC+PFS science database
17:05 (Discussion)
17:20 Naoyuki Tamura (Kavli IPMU) Announcement
17:25 Hitoshi Murayama (Kavli IPMU) Closing words
19:00 (Conference dinner)