Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam Project
- Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU), University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwa-no-Ha, Kashiwa, Chiba, 277-8568 (Japan)
The Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) is the project building a new prime-focus camera for the 8.2 m Subaru Telescope with field-of-view of about 1.8 square degrees, about factor 10 larger than that of the current Suprime-Cam camera. We are planning to carry out a wide-field multi-passband imaging survey with the HSC covering an area of {approx}2000 square degrees and reaching to a depth of i{sub lim{approx}}26.2(5{sigma} for a point source). Thanks to the unique wide-field capabilities and excellent image quality of the Subaru Telescope the HSC wide-field survey will allow high-precision measurements of weak lensing distortions of distant galaxy images caused by foreground large-scale structures, which can be used to constrain cosmological parameters including the nature of dark energy as well as probe the properties of collision-less dark matter. Here I briefly describe the HSC project and the major scientific goals we can achieve with the planned HSC wide-field survey.
- OSTI ID:
- 21426612
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1279, Issue 1; Conference: Conference on deciphering the ancient universe with gamma-ray bursts, Kyoto (Japan), 19-23 Apr 2010; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3509247; (c) 2010 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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