Suprime-Cam
This page is under modification (02/04/2009)Introduction
The Subaru Prime Focus Camera (Suprime-Cam) is a mosaic of ten 2048 x 4096 CCDs, located at the prime focus of Subaru Telescope, which covers a 34' x 27' field of view with a pixel scale of 0.20''.
When referring to Suprime-Cam in a paper, please use the following citation.
Instrument
- Basic instrument parameters (For old MIT CCD)
- CCD information (For old MIT CCD)
- Available general filters and sensitivities (For old MIT CCD)
- User filter acceptance policy: English Japanese
- Filter operation policy: English Japanese
Observation
Data Analysis
An example of a data reduction package for Suprime-Cam (MIT CCD data) named 'SDFRED' is introduced in the webpages below maintained at Mitaka, NAOJ (Links to an external domain). Please contact your Support Astronomer for data reduction of data with Hamamatsu CCDs.
Further information
Questions regarding Suprime-Cam should be directed to Fumiaki Nakata. Please note that all numbers on these pages are subject to change as the performance of Suprime-Cam is better determined.
4 February 2009