Hyper Suprime-Cam: System design and verification of image quality

Satoshi Miyazaki; Yutaka Komiyama; Satoshi Kawanomoto; Yoshiyuki Doi; Hisanori Furusawa; Takashi Hamana; Yusuke Hayashi; Hiroyuki Ikeda; Yukiko Kamata; Hiroshi Karoji; Michitaro Koike; Tomio Kurakami; Shoken Miyama; Tomoki Morokuma; Fumiaki Nakata; Kazuhito Namikawa; Hidehiko Nakaya; Kyoji Nariai; Yoshiyuki Obuchi; Yukie Oishi; Norio Okada; Yuki Okura; Philip Tait; Tadafumi Takata; Yoko Tanaka; Masayuki Tanaka; Tsuyoshi Terai; Daigo Tomono; Fumihiro Uraguchi; Tomonori Usuda; Yousuke Utsumi; Yoshihiko Yamada; Hitomi Yamanoi; Hiroaki Aihara; Hiroki Fujimori; Sogo Mineo; Hironao Miyatake; Masamune Oguri; Tomohisa Uchida; Manobu M. Tanaka; Naoki Yasuda; Masahiro Takada; Hitoshi Murayama; Atsushi J. Nishizawa; Naoshi Sugiyama; Masashi Chiba; Toshifumi Futamase; Shiang Yu Wang; Hsin Yo Chen; Paul T.P. Ho; Eric J.Y. Liaw; Chi Fang Chiu; Cheng Lin Ho; Tsang Chih Lai; Yao Cheng Lee; Dun Zen Jeng; Satoru Iwamura; Robert Armstrong; Steve Bickerton; James Bosch; James E. Gunn; Robert H. Lupton; Craig Loomis; Paul Price; Steward Smith; Michael A. Strauss; Edwin L. Turner; Hisanori Suzuki; Yasuhito Miyazaki; Masaharu Muramatsu; Koei Yamamoto; Makoto Endo; Yutaka Ezaki; Noboru Ito; Noboru Kawaguchi; Satoshi Sofuku; Tomoaki Taniike; Kotaro Akutsu; Naoto Dojo; Kazuyuki Kasumi; Toru Matsuda; Kohei Imoto; Yoshinori Miwa; Masayuki Suzuki; Kunio Takeshi; Hideo Yokota

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Hyper Suprime-Cam: System design and verification of image quality

Satoshi Miyazaki, Yutaka Komiyama, Satoshi Kawanomoto, Yoshiyuki Doi, Hisanori Furusawa, Takashi Hamana, Yusuke Hayashi, Hiroyuki Ikeda, Yukiko Kamata, Hiroshi Karoji, Michitaro Koike, Tomio Kurakami, Shoken Miyama, Tomoki Morokuma, Fumiaki Nakata, Kazuhito Namikawa, Hidehiko Nakaya, Kyoji Nariai, Yoshiyuki Obuchi, Yukie OishiNorio Okada, Yuki Okura, Philip Tait, Tadafumi Takata, Yoko Tanaka, Masayuki Tanaka, Tsuyoshi Terai, Daigo Tomono, Fumihiro Uraguchi, Tomonori Usuda, Yousuke Utsumi, Yoshihiko Yamada, Hitomi Yamanoi, Hiroaki Aihara, Hiroki Fujimori, Sogo Mineo, Hironao Miyatake, Masamune Oguri, Tomohisa Uchida, Manobu M. Tanaka, Naoki Yasuda, Masahiro Takada, Hitoshi Murayama, Atsushi J. Nishizawa, Naoshi Sugiyama, Masashi Chiba, Toshifumi Futamase, Shiang Yu Wang, Hsin Yo Chen, Paul T.P. Ho, Eric J.Y. Liaw, Chi Fang Chiu, Cheng Lin Ho, Tsang Chih Lai, Yao Cheng Lee, Dun Zen Jeng, Satoru Iwamura, Robert Armstrong, Steve Bickerton, James Bosch, James E. Gunn, Robert H. Lupton, Craig Loomis, Paul Price, Steward Smith, Michael A. Strauss, Edwin L. Turner, Hisanori Suzuki, Yasuhito Miyazaki, Masaharu Muramatsu, Koei Yamamoto, Makoto Endo, Yutaka Ezaki, Noboru Ito, Noboru Kawaguchi, Satoshi Sofuku, Tomoaki Taniike, Kotaro Akutsu, Naoto Dojo, Kazuyuki Kasumi, Toru Matsuda, Kohei Imoto, Yoshinori Miwa, Masayuki Suzuki, Kunio Takeshi, Hideo Yokota

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The Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) is an 870 megapixel prime focus optical imaging camera for the 8.2 m Subaru telescope. The wide-field corrector delivers sharp images of 0.2 (FWHM) in the HSC-i band over the entire 1.5 diameter field of view. The collimation of the camera with respect to the optical axis of the primary mirror is done with hexapod actuators, the mechanical accuracy of which is a few microns. Analysis of the remaining wavefront error in off-focus stellar images reveals that the collimation of the optical componentsmeets design specifications.While there is a flexure of mechanical components, it also is within the design specification. As a result, the camera achieves its seeing-limited imaging on Maunakea during most of the time; the median seeing over several years of observing is 0.67 (FWHM) in the i band. The sensors use p-channel, fully depleted CCDs of 200μm thickness (2048 × 4176 15μm square pixels) and we employ 116 of them to pave the 50 cm diameter focal plane. The minimum interval between exposures is 34 s, including the time to read out arrays, to transfer data to the control computer, and to save them to the hard drive. HSC on Subaru uniquely features a combination of a large aperture, a wide field of view, sharp images and a high sensitivity especially at longer wavelengths, which makes the HSC one of the most powerful observing facilities in the world.

Original language	English
Article number	S1
Journal	Publication of the Astronomical Society of Japan
Volume	70
Issue number	Special Issue 1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/pasj/psx063
Publication status	Published - 2018 Jan 1

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Miyazaki, S., Komiyama, Y., Kawanomoto, S., Doi, Y., Furusawa, H., Hamana, T., Hayashi, Y., Ikeda, H., Kamata, Y., Karoji, H., Koike, M., Kurakami, T., Miyama, S., Morokuma, T., Nakata, F., Namikawa, K., Nakaya, H., Nariai, K., Obuchi, Y., ... Yokota, H. (2018). Hyper Suprime-Cam: System design and verification of image quality. Publication of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 70(Special Issue 1), Article S1. https://doi.org/10.1093/pasj/psx063

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AU - Miyazaki, Satoshi

AU - Komiyama, Yutaka

AU - Kawanomoto, Satoshi

AU - Doi, Yoshiyuki

AU - Furusawa, Hisanori

AU - Hamana, Takashi

AU - Hayashi, Yusuke

AU - Ikeda, Hiroyuki

AU - Kamata, Yukiko

AU - Karoji, Hiroshi

AU - Koike, Michitaro

AU - Kurakami, Tomio

AU - Miyama, Shoken

AU - Morokuma, Tomoki

AU - Nakata, Fumiaki

AU - Namikawa, Kazuhito

AU - Nakaya, Hidehiko

AU - Nariai, Kyoji

AU - Obuchi, Yoshiyuki

AU - Oishi, Yukie

AU - Okada, Norio

AU - Okura, Yuki

AU - Tait, Philip

AU - Takata, Tadafumi

AU - Tanaka, Yoko

AU - Tanaka, Masayuki

AU - Terai, Tsuyoshi

AU - Tomono, Daigo

AU - Uraguchi, Fumihiro

AU - Usuda, Tomonori

AU - Utsumi, Yousuke

AU - Yamada, Yoshihiko

AU - Yamanoi, Hitomi

AU - Aihara, Hiroaki

AU - Fujimori, Hiroki

AU - Mineo, Sogo

AU - Miyatake, Hironao

AU - Oguri, Masamune

AU - Uchida, Tomohisa

AU - Tanaka, Manobu M.

AU - Yasuda, Naoki

AU - Takada, Masahiro

AU - Murayama, Hitoshi

AU - Nishizawa, Atsushi J.

AU - Sugiyama, Naoshi

AU - Chiba, Masashi

AU - Futamase, Toshifumi

AU - Wang, Shiang Yu

AU - Chen, Hsin Yo

AU - Ho, Paul T.P.

AU - Liaw, Eric J.Y.

AU - Chiu, Chi Fang

AU - Ho, Cheng Lin

AU - Lai, Tsang Chih

AU - Lee, Yao Cheng

AU - Jeng, Dun Zen

AU - Iwamura, Satoru

AU - Armstrong, Robert

AU - Bickerton, Steve

AU - Bosch, James

AU - Gunn, James E.

AU - Lupton, Robert H.

AU - Loomis, Craig

AU - Price, Paul

AU - Smith, Steward

AU - Strauss, Michael A.

AU - Turner, Edwin L.

AU - Suzuki, Hisanori

AU - Miyazaki, Yasuhito

AU - Muramatsu, Masaharu

AU - Yamamoto, Koei

AU - Endo, Makoto

AU - Ezaki, Yutaka

AU - Ito, Noboru

AU - Kawaguchi, Noboru

AU - Sofuku, Satoshi

AU - Taniike, Tomoaki

AU - Akutsu, Kotaro

AU - Dojo, Naoto

AU - Kasumi, Kazuyuki

AU - Matsuda, Toru

AU - Imoto, Kohei

AU - Miwa, Yoshinori

AU - Suzuki, Masayuki

AU - Takeshi, Kunio

AU - Yokota, Hideo

N1 - Funding Information: This work is in part supported by as MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (15H05892, 15H05887, 15H05893, 15K21733). Funding Information: The Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) collaboration includes the astronomical communities of Japan and Taiwan, and Princeton University. The HSC instrumentation and software were developed by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU), the University of Tokyo, the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), the Academia Sinica Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics in Taiwan (ASIAA), and Princeton University. Funding was contributed by the FIRST program from the Japanese Cabinet Office, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), the Toray Science Foundation, NAOJ, Kavli IPMU, KEK, ASIAA, and Princeton University. HM is supported by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.We thank the LSST Project for making their code available as free software at 〈http://dm.lsst.org〉. Funding Information: HM is supported by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Publisher Copyright: © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Astronomical Society of Japan. All rights reserved.

PY - 2018/1/1

Y1 - 2018/1/1

N2 - The Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) is an 870 megapixel prime focus optical imaging camera for the 8.2 m Subaru telescope. The wide-field corrector delivers sharp images of 0.2 (FWHM) in the HSC-i band over the entire 1.5 diameter field of view. The collimation of the camera with respect to the optical axis of the primary mirror is done with hexapod actuators, the mechanical accuracy of which is a few microns. Analysis of the remaining wavefront error in off-focus stellar images reveals that the collimation of the optical componentsmeets design specifications.While there is a flexure of mechanical components, it also is within the design specification. As a result, the camera achieves its seeing-limited imaging on Maunakea during most of the time; the median seeing over several years of observing is 0.67 (FWHM) in the i band. The sensors use p-channel, fully depleted CCDs of 200μm thickness (2048 × 4176 15μm square pixels) and we employ 116 of them to pave the 50 cm diameter focal plane. The minimum interval between exposures is 34 s, including the time to read out arrays, to transfer data to the control computer, and to save them to the hard drive. HSC on Subaru uniquely features a combination of a large aperture, a wide field of view, sharp images and a high sensitivity especially at longer wavelengths, which makes the HSC one of the most powerful observing facilities in the world.

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