1. The Hyper Suprime-Cam SSP Survey: Overview and Survey Design
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Aihara, H., Arimoto, N., Armstrong, R., Arnouts, S., Bahcall, N. A., Bickerton, S., Bosch, J., Bundy, K., Capak, P. L., Chan, J. H. H., Chiba, M., Coupon, J., Egami, E., Enoki, M., Finet, F., Fujimori, H., Fujimoto, S., Furusawa, H., Furusawa, J., Goto, T., Goulding, A., Greco, J. P., Greene, J. E., Gunn, J. E., Hamana, T., Harikane, Y., Hashimoto, Y., Hattori, T., Hayashi, M., Hayashi, Y., Hełminiak, K. G., Higuchi, R., Hikage, C., Ho, P. T. P., Hsieh, B. -C., Huang, K., Huang, S., Ikeda, H., Imanishi, M., Inoue, A. K., Iwasawa, K., Iwata, I., Jaelani, A. T., Jian, H. -Y., Kamata, Y., Karoji, H., Kashikawa, N., Katayama, N., Kawanomoto, S., Kayo, I., Koda, J., Koike, M., Kojima, T., Komiyama, Y., Konno, A., Koshida, S., Koyama, Y., Kusakabe, H., Leauthaud, A., Lee, C. -H., Lin, L., Lin, Y. -T., Lupton, R. H., Mandelbaum, R., Matsuoka, Y., Medezinski, E., Mineo, S., Miyama, S., Miyatake, H., Miyazaki, S., Momose, R., More, A., More, S., Moritani, Y., Moriya, T. J., Morokuma, T., Mukae, S., Murata, R., Murayama, H., Nagao, T., Nakata, F., Niida, M., Niikura, H., Nishizawa, A. J., Obuchi, Y., Oguri, M., Oishi, Y., Okabe, N., Okura, Y., Ono, Y., Onodera, M., Onoue, M., Osato, K., Ouchi, M., Price, P. A., Pyo, T. -S., Sako, M., Okamoto, S., Sawicki, M., Shibuya, T., Shimasaku, K., Shimono, A., Shirasaki, M., Silverman, J. D., Simet, M., Speagle, J., Spergel, D. N., Strauss, M. A., Sugahara, Y., Sugiyama, N., Suto, Y., Suyu, S. H., Suzuki, N., Tait, P. J., Takata, T., Takada, M., Tamura, N., Tanaka, M. M., Tanaka, M., Tanaka, Y., Terai, T., Terashima, Y., Toba, Y., Toshikawa, J., Turner, E. L., Uchida, T., Uchiyama, H., Umetsu, K., Uraguchi, F., Urata, Y., Usuda, T., Utsumi, Y., Wang, S. -Y., Wang, W. -H., Wong, K. C., Yabe, K., Yamada, Y., Yamanoi, H., Yasuda, N., Yeh, S., Yonehara, A., and Yuma, S.
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Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics - Abstract
Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) is a wide-field imaging camera on the prime focus of the 8.2m Subaru telescope on the summit of Maunakea in Hawaii. A team of scientists from Japan, Taiwan and Princeton University is using HSC to carry out a 300-night multi-band imaging survey of the high-latitude sky. The survey includes three layers: the Wide layer will cover 1400 deg$^2$ in five broad bands ($grizy$), with a $5\,\sigma$ point-source depth of $r \approx 26$. The Deep layer covers a total of 26~deg$^2$ in four fields, going roughly a magnitude fainter, while the UltraDeep layer goes almost a magnitude fainter still in two pointings of HSC (a total of 3.5 deg$^2$). Here we describe the instrument, the science goals of the survey, and the survey strategy and data processing. This paper serves as an introduction to a special issue of the Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, which includes a large number of technical and scientific papers describing results from the early phases of this survey., Comment: 14 pages, 7 figures, 5 tables. Corrected for a typo in the coordinates of HSC-Wide spring equatorial field in Table 5
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- 2017
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