Suprime-Cam

Current Status (8/2/2011):

• Suprime-Cam is not available for observation at the moment due to the telescope cooling system incident. The damage assessment of Suprime-Cam as well as the Primary Focus Unit is ongoing. The repair plan is now under examination.

Introduction

The Subaru Prime Focus Camera (Suprime-Cam) is a mosaic of ten 2048 x 4096 CCDs, located at the prime focus of Subaru Telescope, which covers a 34' x 27' field of view with a pixel scale of 0.20''.

When referring to Suprime-Cam in a paper, please use the following citation.

Instrument

• Basic instrument parameters   (For previously used MIT CCD)
• CCD information   (For previously used MIT CCD)
• Available general filters and sensitivities   (For previously used MIT CCD)
• User filter acceptance policy: English Japanese
• Filter operation policy: English Japanese

Observation

• Guide to exposure times
• Exposure Time Calculator

Data Analysis

An example of data reduction packages for Suprime-Cam named 'SDFRED1' (for MIT CCD data) and 'SDFRED2' (for Hamamatsu FDCCD data) are introduced in the webpages below.

English Japanese

Further information

Questions regarding Suprime-Cam should be directed to Fumiaki Nakata. Please note that all numbers on these pages are subject to change as the performance of Suprime-Cam is better determined.

2 August 2011