Subaru Telescope 2007 Highlights and Future Plans

1. Subaru Telescope2007 Masa Hayashi Subaru Users’ Meeting January 31, 2008

2. Major Events in 2007 • Call for the 1st Strategic Observing Program • HyperSuprime-Cam subproject established • Discussions on collaboration with Princeton Univ. and ASIAA toward MOUs • Time exchange with Gemini and Keck • Change of Associate DirectorToru Yamada => Hideki Takami • The 1st Subaru International Conference (Dec 11-15)“Panoramic Views of Galaxy Formation and Evolution”

3. Subaru Telescope Organization Director Hayashi [M] Senior Advisors Karoji, (Ando, Iye, Mizumoto) Associate Director (HR & Operation) Nishimura Associate Director (Budget and Engineering) Usuda [T] Associate Director (General) Takami Head Official Naito Manager Mitaka Office Noguchi Human Res. Assis. Guthier Assistant to Director Endo General Affairs Okazaki, Otsuki Sub-Manager Aoki [W] Director’s Office Secretary Higashio Accounting Unit Chief Kawabe Accounting Unit Staff Watanabe [S], Formanek, Yoshida, Roth [2 TBDs] Science Operation Division Terada Telescope Engineering Division Tomono Software Division (Takami [H]) Accounting Kuwata Takamoto (Kimura [H]) Iwami Scientist (Takato) Engineers & Technicians Kanzawa, Miyashita, Negishi, Iseki, Kurakami, Uraguchi, Nabeshima Support Astronomers Furusawa [H] (S-Cam), Fujiyoshi (COMICS), Hattori [T] (FOCAS), Tajitsu (HDS), Tanaka [I] (MOIRCS), Pyo (IRCS), Aoki [K] (CISCO), Ishii (CIAO), (2TBDs) OCS Software Engineers and Prog. Associates Bon, Jeschke, Streeper Inagaki, (TBD) Gen2 Science Advisors (Terada, Tomono) Open Use (Takeda) Imanishi Kashikawa Yoshida [C] Hyper Suprime-Cam Subproject Manager (Miyazaki) Instrument Software Engineers Tait, Cook, Dinkins, Golota, Weber Technical Support Division Toyofuku Night Operation Grp Leader (TBD) Obs. System Assoc. & Night Op. Assis. Letawsky, Garay, Harasawa, Hatakeyama, Lemmen, Potter, Scarla Computer & Data Management Division Noumaru Scientists Komiyama, Nakaya, Morokuma, Kawanomoto Public Relations (Imanishi) Ofuku Mech. Team Foreperson Ferreira Summit Mech. Techs (I) Castro, Balbarino, Spencer System Advisor Kawai System Administrators Winegar, Schubert, Scanlon Engineers & Technicians Doi, Tanaka [Y], (Kamata, Gillingham) Data Management (Yagi) Day Crew II Foreperson Namikawa Shift Leaders Yutani, Ohshima (Loaned fm Mtk) Summit Telescope Techs (II) Hasegawa [A], Iwasaki Tateishi Instrument Group Leader Engineers Colley Lab Engineers & Techs Omata, Elms, Gorman, Ramos [TBD] Hyper Suprime Cam Subproject Science Activities Arimoto Kodama Public Information and Outreach Office Hayashi [S] PIO Office Staff Fuse, McLoud, Usuda-Sato [K], De Sa Facility Maintenance Tech Tamae Posdocs Minowa Nakajima Kandori Science Operation Associate Fuselier Motor Pool/Transp. Tech Hopkins AO Development Manager Hayano Scientists & Engineers Oya,Guyon, Watanabe [M], Hattori [M], Saito, [Engineer] (Dinkins, Golota) FMOS Commissioning Manager Takato Sub-Manager Akiyama Commissioning Scientists & Engineer Tamura [N], Kimura, (Tait) Other (Miyauchi) Library Committee Chair (Takato) Science & Education Posdocs Ishioka Furuya Graduate Students Mitaka Office Librarian Tsang HiCIAO Project Suzuki (Kandori) ELT Project Sasaki Student Assistants Affiliated Researchers Nitta Safety Officer Noumaru (Interim) PIAA and Extreme AO Proj. PI (Guyon) New Development Directorate Division Chief Safety Engineer Tsutsumi Those who have major duties in other projects or divisions are shown in the parentheses. Updated January 8, 2007

4. Operation Budget USD18M (NAOJ faculty staff personnel expenses and computer system rental fee are not included)

5. Publications

6. Proposal Statistics

7. Telescope Time Usage

8. Downtime Statistics

9. Instrument Usage (Service observations are not included)

10. 13 News Releases in 2007 COSMOS (Massey et al.) γ Cep (Fukagawa et al.) Strange Hα filament (Yagi et al.) Crab nebula (Yamada et al.) Schwassman-Wachman (Fuse et al.) Deep Impact (Kadono et al.) Extragalactic Thorium (Aoki et al.) Spin-orbit alignment (Narita et al.) Meteor tracks (Iye et al.) Jet? (Hioki et al.) Leo II more extended (Komiyama et al.) Another target? Ancient galaxy morphology (Akiyama et al.)

11. Coming Instrument Status • Suprime-Cam with full depletion layer CCDs • HiCIAOStrategic observing proposal under review at SAC • AO188Risk shared use of NGS from S08B • FMOSContinue testing • Hyper Suprime-CamConceptual Design Review and fabrication • WFMOSGemini-Subaru WFMOS WorkshopContinue discussion with Gemini

12. Major Issues in 2008 • Keep steadyoperations and outcomes • Telescope Control System (SOSS) on new hardware (June) • Begin fabrication of Hyper Suprime-Cam with successful CoDR • Conclude MOUs with Princeton Univ and ASIAA • Continue time exchange with Gemini and Keck • Gemini-Subaru-JSPS Workshop on WFMOS (May 19-22) • Organize the 2nd Subaru international conference

13. Some Minor Remarks • Please send an e-mail to Science Operation Division Chief terada (@naoj.org) with CCs to nishimura and masa if you ask to add or change targets. • We ask all the MOIRCS MOS users to provide time (~1 hour) to take pre-images for the next MOS users. We will consult this issue with SAC soon. • No TOO for Keck-Subaru exchanged time (5 nights)