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Paper: Galactic Archaeology with Subaru: Prospects for Wide-Field Surveys
Volume: 458, Galactic Archaeology: Near-Field Cosmology and the Formation of the Milky Way
Page: 399
Authors: Chiba, M.
Abstract: Having a very wide field of view at prime focus, Subaru is distinguished and uniquely positioned to do wide-field surveys for Galactic Archaeology (GA) science cases requiring its large aperture. Here we present our plan for such wide-field GA surveys using a wide-field imager, Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC), and a wide-field multi-object spectrograph, Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS). HSC will see first light in 2012. The basic concept of PFS has been approved in the Subaru community and its commissioning will be in around 2015. The primary scientific driver for both of these wide-field instruments is cosmology, but they will offer us important opportunities to conduct strategic GA surveys as well, especially in synergy with Gaia and other upcoming projects related to GA in the next decade.
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