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Subaru Users Meeting 2025

October 29 - 31, 2025 JST
Large Seminar Room, Mitaka Campus, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ)

Purpose

Thanks to the long-term efforts of the Subaru community and international collaborations, the Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) has begun science operations this spring, and a large amount of exciting observational data is now being delivered. For further success of the Subaru Telescope, we also need to promote the development of the ULTIMATE-Subaru, accelerate the synergistic observation with LSST and Roman, and innovate the observational technology via PI-type instruments development. As the situation surrounding Subaru changes dynamically every year, the annual Subaru Users Meeting is a vital opportunity for community members to gather, share the latest scientific results, understand the future outlook, and explore ways to collaborate. It is also an important opportunity for the observatory to receive feedback from the community, and to sophisticate the observatory's strategy toward the future, "Subaru 3". We encourage everyone in the Subaru community to participate in this users meeting, and join intensive, exciting discussions on various topics around the Subaru Telescope.

Program

All date and time are in JST.

Day 1, 10/29(Wed)

Time γ€€γ€€γ€€γ€€ No. Title Speaker
9:55-10:00 Opening remark and announcement
10:00-11:40 Reports from the Observatory
γ€€10:00-10:20 O01 Director's report Satoshi Miyazaki
γ€€10:20-10:35 O02 Science Operation Report FY2025 Tae-Soo Pyo
γ€€10:35-10:45 003 Telescope Report Yutaka Hayano (online)
γ€€10:45-11:00 O04 Instrument Status Takashi Hattori
γ€€11:00-11:15 O05 ADC openuse services Hisanori Furusawa
γ€€11:15-11:30 O06 SAC report Tomoki Morokuma
γ€€11:30-11:40 O07 Okayama report Akito Tajitsu
11:40-12:20 Poster flash talks (28 posters)
1 min flash talks for P01-P14 + 5 min Q&A
1 min flash talks for P15-P29 + 5 min Q&A
12:20-13:50 Lunch & poster viewing
13:50-14:50 Future instruments and collaborations 1
γ€€13:50-14:20 O08 ULTIMATE Yusei Koyama
γ€€14:20-14:50 O09 Roman Takahiro Sumi
14:50-15:25 S01 Discussion 1: Future instrument plan (primarily in English. Japanese is OK)
γ€€14:50-15:00 Subaru's future instrument plan: current status and community discussion so far Yusei Koyama
γ€€15:00-15:10 Impact on FOCAS observations in ULTIMATE era Kentaro Aoki
γ€€15:10-15:25 Discussion
15:25-15:40 Break
15:40-17:40 Science talk 1 (12 min + 3 min Q&A)
γ€€15:40-15:55 O10 NINJA: Current Status of the NIR Spectrograph Chihiro Tokoku
γ€€15:55-16:10 O11 16 HSC-Medium Band Filters Atsushi J. Nishizawa
γ€€16:10-16:25 O12 MAHALO Deep Survey: Environmental effects on star-forming galaxies in protoclusters at cosmic noon Kazuki Daikuhara
γ€€16:25-16:40 O13 The Nature of the Stellar Halo in the Andromeda Galaxy Explored with the Subaru/HSC Itsuki Ogami
γ€€16:40-16:55 O14 Carbon isotopologue ratio measurements of Hot Jupiter with IGRINS-2/Gemini-North Yuya Hayashi
γ€€16:55-17:10 O15 MOIRCS confirmation of super-Eddington accretion in an extremely X-ray loud radio quasar at z=3.4
in the eROSITA/eFEDS field
Sakiko Obuchi
γ€€17:10-17:25 O16 Subaru Telescope and New Horizons: A Decade of Target Search, Recovery, and Results Anne Verbiscer
γ€€17:25-17:40 O17 A Joint Search for the EM Counterpart to the GW Binary Black Hole Merger Candidate S250328ae
with DECam and PFS
Haibin Zhang

Day 2, 10/30(Thu)

Time γ€€γ€€γ€€γ€€ No. Title Speaker
9:00-10:15 Report from Maunakea Observatories
γ€€9:00-9:15 O18 UH Institute for Astronomy Status and Future Plans Doug Simon
γ€€9:15-9:30 O19 Keck Observatory Update Rich Matsuda (online)
γ€€9:30-9:45 O20 Gemini Observatory Update Atsuko Nitta
γ€€9:45-10:00 O21 Canada-France-Hawai'i Telescope Jean-Gabriel Cuby
γ€€10:00-10:15 O22 TMT International Observatory Fengchuan Liu (online)
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-11:10 S02 TAC report and discussion (primarily in English. Japanese is OK) Takayuki Muto
11:10-11:35 Partnership program
γ€€11:10-11:15 O23 Introduction to Subaru partnership program Yusei Koyama
γ€€11:15-11:35 O24 New partner candidate: Scientific Interests of the Mexican Astrophysical Community with Subaru Yair Krongold
11:35-12:35 Science talk 2 (12 min + 3 min Q&A)
γ€€11:35-11:50 O25 Framework Development for Numerical Modeling of the Low Wind Effect at Subaru MΓ‘rton Koren
γ€€11:50-12:05 O26 [Th/Eu] ratios from the 5989 Γ… Thorium Line in the spectra of 36 Stars: constraints on r-process origins
and galactic chemical evolution
Kurumi Furutsuka
γ€€12:05-12:20 O27 Resolving the Giant LyΞ± Emitters Himiko & CR7 at z=6.6 with JWST/NIRSpec IFU+Subaru/HSC+ALMA Tomokazu Kiyota
γ€€12:20-12:35 O28 New Horizons and FOSSIL HSC data and the LSST for Solar System Object discovery JJ Kavelars
Conference Photo
12:35-14:00 Lunch & poster viewing
14:00-14:30 Future Instruments and collaborations 2
γ€€14:00-14:30 O29 HWO Olivier Guyon
14:30-16:30 Science talk 3 (12 min + 3 min Q&A)
γ€€14:30-14:45 O30 Synergies between Subaru Near-Infrared Surveys and NASA’s PRIMA Far-Infrared Mission Hanae Inami
γ€€14:45-15:00 O31 Multi-Wavelength High-Resolution Transmission Spectroscopy of KELT-20b with HDS, GRACES and IRD Stevanus Kristianto Nugroho
γ€€15:00-15:15 O32 The Extended Stellar Distribution in the Outskirts of the Ursa Minor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy Kyosuke Sato
γ€€15:15-15:30 O33 Cosmic Himalayas: The Highest QSO Density Peak at Cosmic Noon Bridging AGNs, Galaxies, and IGM Yongming Liang
15:30-15:45 Break
γ€€15:45-16:00 O34 Status Report of WISHES+ (S24B-080QI) Ken Osato
γ€€16:00-16:15 O35 Current Status of Testing General Relativity with the Star Orbiting Galactic Center BH Sgr A* Hiromi Saida
γ€€16:15-16:30 O36 A Search for Dynamical Memory in the Spin Distribution of Galaxies in HSC WIDE Survey Regions Masanori Iye
16:30-17:45 S03 PFS session (primarily in English. Japanese is OK)
γ€€15:30-16:50 Instrument report Shintaro Koshida
γ€€16:50-17:45 Discussions Masayuki Tanaka
18:30- Banquet (Large Seminar Room @ Subaru building)

Day 3, 10/31(Fri)

Time γ€€γ€€γ€€γ€€ No. Title Speaker
9:00-9:45 Future Instruments and collaborations 3
γ€€9:00-9:45 O37 LSST updates Masamune Oguri,
Yousuke Utsumi (online)
9:45-11:00 Science talk 4 (12 min + 3 min Q&A)
γ€€9:45-10:00 O38 Unveiling the Reionization Process through Subaru Intensive Program (S25A-047QI) Rieko Momose (online)
γ€€10:00-10:15 O39 MIRACLES (S21A-114QI) Yuichi Matsuda
γ€€10:15-10:30 O40 PFS-SSP Masahiro Takada
γ€€10:30-10:45 O41 IRD-SSP Bunei Sato (online)
γ€€10:45-11:00 O42 The Observing Accelerators with SCExAO Imaging Survey (OASIS): First Results (S24A-023I) Thayne Currie (online)
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-12:10 S04 Discussion 2: PI-type Instruments, Proposal duplication (primarily in English. Japanese is OK)
12:10-13:40 Lunch and poster viewing
13:40-15:10 S05 TMT-Subaru session (in Japanese)
γ€€13:40 - 13:45 Introduction Fumi Yoshida
γ€€13:45 - 14:05 Star formation in the extreme outer Galaxy revealed by JWST and Subaru (English) Natsuko Izumi
γ€€14:05 - 14:15 TMT-ACCESS report Ryuji Suzuki
γ€€14:15 - 14:35 TMT progress report Wako Aoki
γ€€14:35 - 14:50 Introduction and discussion of TMT science operations Sakurako Okamoto (online)
γ€€14:50 - 15:05 TMT Strategic Development Research Expenses. Report and discussion of the survey results Takayuki Kotani
γ€€15:05 - 15:10 Q&A
15:10-15:25 Break
15:25-16:25 S06 Discussion 3: Subaru 3 (in Japanese)
16:25-16:30 Closing remark

Posters

No. Title Author
P01 PyIRD: A Python-Based Data Reduction Pipeline for Subaru/IRD and REACH,
with Applications to Brown Dwarf Observations
Yui Kasagi
P02 Cancelled
P03 The Hyper Suprime-Cam Legacy Archive: Expanding Access to Science-Ready Data from 2014–2020 Sumiko Harasawa
P04 Novel Transmission Gratings with High-dispersion, High-efficiency and Wide Bandwidth II Noboru Ebizuka
P05 Search for long-period binary stars with compact objects Ataru Tanikawa
P06 Subaru/MOIRCS Wide-field Multi-object Spectroscopy of Very Low-mass objects in the R CrA region Takahiro Kanai
P07 Initial Analysis Results of Subaru/HSC Observations of TNOs for New Horizons Navigation Support Neo Yamashita
P08 Low-mass with high-SFR HΞ± emitters at z ~ 2 in ZFOURGE-COSMOS field Jeung Yun
P09 Instrument Performance verified through the PFS engineering observations Yuki Moritani
P10 Multi-Input Convolutional Neural Networks with Attention for Faint Moving Object Detection Masato Shibukawa
P11 Current status of DRP development for PFS Kiyoto Yabe
P12 The Origin of Phosphorus-rich Stars Ryota Hatami
P13 Unravelling star formation history in the Andromeda Galaxy halo(Subaru/HSC) Tensho Ito
P14 First Light of a Wide-Field, High-Speed CMOS Camera for the 90-Inch Telescope at Steward Observatory Mihiro Takahashi,
Kotaro Tsuchiya,
Mai Murakami
P15 Star forming regions in the outer part of the dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 6822 Sato Taiga
P16 Progress and Challenges in Planning for Subaru PFS Open-Use Programs Wanqiu He
P17 Subaru Nasmyth Beam Switcher : commissioning status Takashi Hattori
P18 MIRACLES. Subaru HSC Ultra Deep Narrow-band Survey Data for Direct Detection of the Cosmic Web Satoshi Yamanaka
P19 Latest Report on Synergistic Observations with Subaru for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Kazuki Daikuhara
P20 Resurrection of Subaru+COMICS for the study of solar system objects
with ground-based mid-infrared observations III
Takafumi Ootsubo
P21 Astrocomb and Fiber Feed Module for HDS Masashi Omiya
P22 Tech. IFU: Technology ferification for WFOS IFU Shinobu Ozaki
P23 IRD, REACH, and K-REACH: Current Status and Upgrade Plans for Near-Infrared High-Dispersion Spectrometer Takayuki Kotani
P24 ULTIMATE-START : Subaru Tomographic Adaptive Optics System Masayuki Akiyama
P25 Exoplanet and Circumstellar Disks Observations with SCExAO/CHARIS Olivier Guyon
P26 Visible-light High Contrast Observations with SCExAO/VAMPIRES Olivier Guyon
P27 Super-Resolution Spectro-Imaging with SCExAO/ Photonic Lanterns Olivier Guyon
P28 SCExAO: Enabling Deep Contrast Exoplanet Observations at the Diffraction Limit with New Technologies Olivier Guyon
P29 Updates on AO3k's new modules Julien Lozi

Outline

Meeting Title Subaru Users Meeting 2025
Date Wednesday, October 29 to Friday, October 31, 2025 JST
Venue Large Seminar Room, Mitaka Campus, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ)
Hosted by Subaru Science Advisory Committee (SAC), and Subaru Telescope
Meeting Style Hybrid
On-site at the Mitaka Campus, and
Online via Zoom
(*) Zoom information will be provided for those who submit registration.
Banquet Thursday, October 30, at 6pm
at the Large Seminar Room in the Mitaka Campus NAOJ
Organizing Committee Masayuki Tanaka (NAOJ)
Hirofumi Okita (NAOJ)
Yuhei Takagi (NAOJ)
Yuki Moritani (NAOJ)
Itsuki Ogami (NAOJ)
Tomoki Morokuma (Chiba Institute of Technology, SAC)
Daisuke Iono (NAOJ, SAC)
Mariko Kubo (Kwansei Gakuin University, SAC)

Zoom Informtion

Zoom information will be provided for those who submit registration.

NAOJ Nextcloud Web Server

All presentation files are requested to be submitted via NAOJ Nexcloud Web Server. The URL will be provided for those who submit registration.

Please follow the naming rule: "{Presentation Number}_{Name (Last Name)}_subaru_um2025.pdf."

Files must be PDF format. The presentation number is listed in the program.

(For example: T03_hayano_subaru_um2025.pdf, P09_moritani_subaru_um2025.pdf)

You can upload your presentation file, and you can freely see/download files, but you can NOT delete or edit your file, and you can NOT upload the same name file. If you need to revise your presentation file, please add a suffix like "v2" to identify its version.

Registration (CLOSED)

All participants to the Subaru Users Meeting 2025 require registration via Registration Form by the following dates.

Due date
Oral/Poster Presentation Wednesday, September 24, 2025 (Closed)
Banquet on 10/30(Thu) Wednesday, September 24, 2025 (Closed)
Travel support Wednesday, September 24, 2025 (Closed)
On-site participation Wednesday, October 15, 2025 (Closed)
Online participation Wednesday, October 22, 2025 (Closed)

(*) Zoom information will be provided for those who submit registration.

Handling of Personal Information

To organize the Subaru Users Meeting 2025, the organizing committee (subaru_um (at) naoj.org) collects your personal information, namely, your name, affiliation and e-mail address. We use your personal information only for organizing this meeting. We will keep some of your information until the next users meeting as a reference for it. By submitting the registration form, you agree that your personal data will be sent to the organizing committee and will be processed for the meeting organization.

Banquet

The banquet will be held at the large seminar room at 6:30pm on 10/30(Thu).
The banquet fee will be collected at the registration of the meeting.

Job Title Fee
Professors, associate professors 6,000 yen
Assistant professors 5,000 yen
Postdocs 4,000 yen
Students 2,000 yen
Others 5,000 yen

Venue & Travel

The Subaru Users Meeting 2025 will be held with a hybrid stye, on-site in the Mitaka campus NAOJ and online via Zoom. The on-site meeting is at the large seminar room on the 1st floor of the Subaru building (Campus Map-W1) in the Mitaka campus, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ). Zoom information will be provided to the resgisterd participants.

We have a small budget to support your domestic travel (transportation and accommodation costs) for those who are affiliated with domestic organizations.

Unfortunately, there is no vacancy in the Cosmos Lodge (Campus Map-N1) in the Mitaka campus NAOJ at the time of writing this page.

Mitaka Campus NAOJ

Mitaka Campus, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan

Access Information: ACCESS

Visitor Card Key (IMPORTANT)

NAOJ requires all visitors to register at the guard house (Campus Map-C1) upon their arrival. Please show your photo ID at the guard house next to the main gate. The organizing committee will submit pre-registation to the guard house so you only need to show your ID. A card key will be provided at the guard house, which you will need to enter buildings in the campus. You can keep the card key during the meeting (10/29-31), and return it to the guard house on the last day of your participation.

Code of Conduct

All attendees at the Subaru Users Meeting 2025 must agree to the NAOJ Code of Conduct.

Contact

If you have any questions, contact us at

subaru_um (at) naoj.org

Last Update: October 27, 2025