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Progress and Perspective of Solar System Science using Subaru

Science Sessions - Solar System

Subaru is a powerful tool for detecting faint structures and small objects in the solar system. In the past 20 years, surveys by ground-based observations such as SDSS and Pan-STARRS as well as those from space such as Akari and NEOWISE were carried out. A number of solar system small bodies have been discovered, and their orbital distribution, surface composition, physical characteristics have been investigated. Subaru also worked on some surveys, and this telescope turned out much more efficient for detecting smaller solar system bodies than any other surveys do.

Subaru has also served as an indispensable tool for space explorations. It has provided various planetary explorations such as New Horizons or Hayabusa with fundamental information so that the missions’ scientific values go enhanced to a great deal. Subaru has also supplied complementary data that spacecraft mission cannot principally bring in, as part of simultaneous observation with the missions.

In this session, we review and discuss how the solar system science was carried out, promoted and stimulated over the twenty years of the Subaru telescope. We will also overview on-going and future projects and related individual studies in this field. The main objective is to share new information in the solar system, which Subaru has substantially extended since the start of its operation.
b/g image: Tails of Comet ISON by Hyper Suprime Cam

SOC: Chair - Fumi Yoshida (CIT-PERC), Dave Tholen (IfA), Konstantin Batygin (Caltech), Masateru Ishiguro (SNU), Meg Schwamb (Gemini), Mike Brown (Keck), Shiang-Yu Wang (EAO), Tsuyoshi Terai (Subaru), Yasuhito Sekine (U. of Tokyo)

DAY5 (THU)

(I) Fumi Yoshida (PERC, Chiba Institute of Technology)
"Solar System sciences with Subaru telescope" (PDF)

(I) Hideyo Kawakita (Kyoto Sangyo U.)
"Cometary Science from the Subaru Telescope" (PDF)

(I) Takafumi Otsubo (ISAS / JAXA)
"Mid-infrared observations and mineralogy of comet dust grains with Subaru/COMICS" (PDF)

(I) JJ Kavelaars (National Research Council of Canada)
"Observing the distant solar system with Subaru and the New Horizons spacecraft." (PDF)

(I) Glenn Orton (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech)
"Ground-Based Thermal-Infrared Investigations of Planetary Atmospheres" (PDF)

(I) Ruobing Dong (U. of Victoria)
"Observing the Formation of Solar System Planet Analogs" (PDF)

DAY6 (FRI)

(I) Rosemary Pike (ASIAA)
"Mapping Surface Colors of TNOs through Large Surveys" (PDF)

Shuya Tan (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
"Observations of Europa’s surface materials with Subaru/IRCS and its comparison with laboratory experiments" (PDF)

(I) Dave Tholen (UH-IfA)
"Asteroids Near and Far" (PDF)

Stefanie Milam (NASA/GSFC)
"Detailed Studies on Small Bodies in the Solar System with Subaru and WFIRST synergies" (PDF)

KEYNOTE (FRI)

(I) Mike Brown (Caltech)
"The search for Planet Nine" (PDF)

Address

Subaru Telescope
650 N Aohoku Pl
Hilo, HI, 96720 United States

Organizers

Dr. Sakurako Okamoto
Dr. Rhythm Shimakawa
at Subaru Telescope

Contact

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