Monthly Archives: July 2024

Readiness review for open-use was held

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PFS project had a very important meeting on 9th and 10th July 2024 (HST); the readiness review meeting to start open use in the S25A semester of Subaru Telescope. Programs for S25A, which starts from 2025 February, are called a half year beforehand, namely, 2024 August. Envisioning the call-for in one month, we had a meeting to review the PFS… Read more »

The forth near infrared camera was installed.

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Time flies; it’s already a half of 2024 was over. In this article we are goin to report that we have achieved a milestone in the middle of June. The PFS instrument obtains about 2400 spectra using 4 spectrograph modules. Each module has three cameras; blue, red and near-infrared. Among of them, the near-infrared cameras have been developed at Johns… Read more »