Daily Archives: 2025-01-31

Press Conference: “The new wide-field multi-object spectrograph “PFS” for the Subaru Telescope finally begins its full operation”   January 10, 2025

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On January 10, 2025, Kavli IPMU and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) held a joint press conference to report on the completion of the Subaru Telescope PFS instruments and introduce the expected science from Subaru PFS. Hitoshi Murayama, the PI of the PFS project, presented an overview of PFS and its science cases. Naoyuki Tamura, the Project Manager… Read more »

14th PFS Collaboration meeting at Kavli IPMU

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The 14th Subaru Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) Collaboration Meeting was held over three days, from January 7 to 9, 2025, at Kavli IPMU in Japan. We had approximately 120 in-person participants and 60 online participants, for a total of about 180 participants. We had our PFS colleagues from both the technical team and the science working groups. In particular, with… Read more »