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Instrument Citations

Please cite the following papers when you first refer to one of the Subaru instruments in a publication.

AO188

  • Hayano Y., et al. 2008, Current status of the laser guide star adaptive optics system for Subaru Telescope, Proc. SPIE, vol. 7015, 25
  • Hayano Y., et al. 2010, Commisioning status of Subaru laser guide sta adaptive optics system, Proc. SPIE, vol. 7736, 21

AO36

  • Takami, H., et al. 2004, Performance of Subaru Cassegrain Adaptive Optics System, PASJ, 56, 225

CHARIS

  • Groff, T. D., et al. 2015, The CHARIS IFS for high contrast imaging at Subaru, Proc. SPIE, vol. 9605, 1C
  • Groff, T. D., et al. 2016, Laboratory testing and performance verification of the CHARIS integral field spectrograph, Proc. SPIE, vol. 9908, 0O
  • Brandt, T. D., et al. 2017, Data reduction pipeline for the CHARIS integral-field spectrograph I: detector readout calibration and data cube extraction, Journal of Astro. Tel., vol. 3, id.048002

CIAO

  • Murakawa, K., et al. 2004, CIAO: Coronagraphic Imager with Adaptive Optics on the Subaru Telescope, PASJ, 56, 509

COMICS

  • Kataza, H., et al. 2000, COMICS: The Cooled Mid-Infrared Camera and Spectrometer for the Subaru Telescope, Proc. SPIE, vol. 4008, 1144
  • Okamoto, Y., et al. 2003, Improved performances and capabilities of the cooled mid-infrared camera and spectrometer (COMICS) for the Subaru telescope, Proc. SPIE, vol. 4841, 169

FMOS

  • Kimura, M., et al. 2010, The Fibre Multi-Object Spectrograph (FMOS) for Subaru Telescope, PASJ, 62, 1135

FOCAS

  • Yoshida, M., et al. 2000, Software structure and its performance on FOCAS instrument control, a MOS design, and an analyzing package, Proc. SPIE, vol. 4009, 240
  • Kashikawa, N., et al. 2002, FOCAS: The Faint Object Camera and Spectrograph for the Subaru Telescope, PASJ, 54, 819

HDS

  • Noguchi, K., et al. 2002, High Dispersion Spectrograph (HDS) for the Subaru Telescope, PASJ, 54, 855
  • I2-Cell: Sato, B., et al. 2002, Development of Iodine Cells for the Subaru HDS and the Okayama HIDES: II. New Software for Precise Radial Velocity Measurements, PASJ, 54, 873

HiCIAO

  • Hodapp, K. W., et al. 2008, HiCIAO: the Subaru Telescope's new high-contrast coronographic imager for adaptive optics, Proc. SPIE., vol. 7014, 19
  • Suzuki, R., et al. 2010, Performance characterization of the HiCIAO instrument for the Subaru Telescope, Proc. SPIE, vol. 7735, 30

HSC

  • Miyazaki, S. et al. 2018, Hyper Suprime-Cam: System design and verification of image quality, PASJ, 70, S1
  • Komiyama, Y. et al. 2018, Hyper Suprime-Cam: Camera dewar design, PASJ, 70, S2
  • Kawanomoto, S. et al. 2018, Hyper Suprime-Cam: Filters, PASJ, 70, 66
  • Furusawa, H. et al. 2018, The on-site quality-assurance system for Hyper Suprime-Cam: OSQAH, PASJ, 70, S3

IRCS

  • Tokunaga, A. T., et al. 1998, Infrared camera and spectrograph for the SUBARU Telescope, Proc. SPIE, vol. 3354, 512
  • Kobayashi, N., et al. 2000, IRCS: Infrared Camera and Spectrograph for the Subaru Telescope, Proc. SPIE, vol. 4008, 1056

Kyoto3DII

  • Sugai, H., et al. 2010, The Kyoto Tridimensional Spectrograph II on Subaru and the University of Hawaii 88 in Telescopes, PASP, 122, 103

MOIRCS

  • Suzuki, R. et al. 2008, Multi-Object Infrared Camera and Spectrograph (MOIRCS) for the Subaru Telescope I. Imaging, PASJ, 60, 1347
  • Ichikawa, T. et al. 2006, MOIRCS: Multi-Object Infrared Camera and Spectrograph for SUBARU, Proc. SPIE, vol. 6269, 38

For MOIRCS detector upgrade in 2015:

  • Walawender, J. et al. 2016, The NuMOIRCS Project: Detector Upgrade Overview and Early Commissioning Results, Proc. SPIE, vol. 9908, 2
  • Fabricius, M. et al. 2016, Detector Upgrade of Subaru's Multi-Object Infrared Camera and Spectrograph (MOIRCS), Proc. SPIE, vol. 9908, 28

OHS/CISCO

  • CISCO: Motohara, K., et al. 2002, CISCO: Cooled Infrared Spectrograph and Camera for OHS on the Subaru Telescope, PASJ, 54, 315
  • OHS: Iwamuro, F., Motohara, K., Maihara, T., Hata, R., & Harashima, T. 2001, OHS: OH-airglow Suppressor for the Subaru Telescope, PASJ, 53, 355

SCExAO

  • Guyon, O., et al. 2010, The Subaru coronagraphic extreme AO (SCExAO) system: wavefront control and detection of exoplanets with coherent light modulation in the focal plane, Proc. SPIE, vol. 7736, 24
  • Vogt, F., et al. 2010, The Subaru Coronographic Extreme AO (SCExAO) system: implementation and performances of the Coronographic Low Order WaveFront Sensor, Proc. SPIE, vol. 7736, 12
  • Grrrel, V. et al. 2010, The Subaru coronagraphic extreme AO (SCExAO) system: visible imaging mode, Proc. SPIE, vol. 7736, 5V

Suprime-Cam

  • Miyazaki, S., et al. 2002, Subaru Prime Focus Camera --- Suprime-Cam, PASJ, 54, 833

General

The performance and on-going improvement of the Subaru telescope updated in early 2004 is described in:

  • Iye, M., et al. 2004, Current Performance and On-Going Improvements of the 8.2 m Subaru Telescope, PASJ, 56, 381