Report

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Report from Subaru Advisory Committee
The main issues of the current SAC
Extensive (strategic) program of Subaru
telescope International collaborations over
Subaru Telescope Next generation instruments for
Subaru Telescope
in the era of extremely large telescopes
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Other tasks
Recommendation of TAC member Organization of
Subaru Users Meeting (this symposium) Exchange
program of telescope time (KECK,
GIMINI) Discussion over instrumentation
proposals, TMT, . .
Almost once in every month, SAC has meeting to
discuss over the above issues. Subaru users are
encouraged to join in the discussion.
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Extensive program for strategic use of Subaru
telescope
Following the approval at the last UM in 2007,
SAC announced the Call for Proposal and selected
one from two proposals for the second stage of
the reviewing, based on the comments by TAC and
celebrated reviewers.
2007/03/24 Call for Proposal (dead line July
31) 2007/09/25 Reviewing by SAC, based on the
reports celebrated
reviewers 2007/11/20 hearing from TAC
2008/01/29 final TAC report
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The project program should involve nationwide
observers and theoreticians to produce scientific
outcomes of highest quality.
HiCAO group will have a workshop tomorrow
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If the proposal is accepted by SAC, Subaru will
flexibly schedule the observations, e,g., from
DDT, taking into account of the status of the
instruments (AO188, HiCAO). A new unique
instrument has its peak time to produce good
scientific results. We should not lose the
chance. Therefore, the observations will be
started as early as possible even using DDT.
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International collaborations with Subaru Telescope
Proposal from Princeton University (this
symposium) (coupled with HSC construction
and Subaru extensive program) MOU is
expected to be concluded soon between NAOJ and
Princeton Univ. key words
10-year collaboration
100 nights with HSC, HiCAO,
exchange of young astronomers,
joint research data archive for
open use
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Proposal from ASIAA (this symposium)
Education of Taiwan astronomers by Japanese
astronomers, especially in optical and
infrared. SAC will send young
astronomer to the mini-workshop at Taiwan.
Finance contribution to Subaru To join in
the construction of HSC (technical staff
scientists) To have a right to submit
proposals to Subaru open use without any
restriction.
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Other offers from foreign institutes
AURA, VLT, We expect other many
cases with various styles or
options. Possible offers from Subaru Telescope
e.g., exchange of VLT and Subaru
telescope time
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Next generation instruments for Subaru Telescope
Proposal of WFMOS from Gemini Observatory
The preliminary design is in progress and will
finish in late 2008 . The contribution by
Japanese astronomers are highly welcome.
However, it is not clear yet when and how
Japanese astronomers join in this
project? Proposals from two groups
e.g., Galaxy group (The final report has
not been submitted yet) Such a highly
efficient spectrograph like WFMOS is strongly
anticipated from group of galaxy
researchers. The second new instrument
is a near-infrared camera with very
wide field of view or a 3-D spectrograph.
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However, it is not clear yet how to develop and
construct the instruments. SAC should be
responsible for making the process(?). However,
collaboration of scientists, instrumentation
groups, Subaru staff and their hard efforts are
indispensable.
The guideline of future astronomical
instrumentation by Japanese, especially young,
researchers for Subaru and other telescopes
should be discussed and proposed in conjunction
with such large instruments for Subaru and TMT.