Project Area | Probing the Dark Energy through an Extremely Wide & Deep Survey with Subaru Telescope |
Project/Area Number |
18072003
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas
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Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
Review Section |
Science and Engineering
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Research Institution | The University of Tokyo (2010-2012) National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (2006-2009) |
Principal Investigator |
KAROJI Hiroshi 東京大学, カブリ数物連携宇宙研究機構, 特任教授 (30221196)
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Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MIYAZAKI Satoshi 国立天文台, 先端技術センター, 准教授 (20290885)
KOMIYAMA Yutaka 国立天文台, ハワイ観測所, 助教 (20370108)
HAMANA Takashi 国立天文台, 理論研究部, 助教 (70399301)
NAKAYA Hidehiko 国立天文台, 先端技術センター, 助教 (70450179)
ICHIKAWA Takashi 東北大学, 理学研究科, 教授 (80212992)
NARIAI Kyouji 国立天文台, 名誉教授 (50012844)
FURUSAWA Hisanori 国立天文台, ハワイ観測所, 特任助教 (10425407)
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Project Period (FY) |
2006 – 2012
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Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2012)
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Budget Amount *help |
¥793,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥793,300,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥37,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥37,300,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥37,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥37,300,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥225,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥225,100,000)
Fiscal Year 2008: ¥281,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥281,100,000)
Fiscal Year 2007: ¥155,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥155,800,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥56,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥56,700,000)
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Keywords | ダークエネルギー / ダークマター / 重力レンズ / すばる望遠鏡 / 観測的宇宙論 / 観測的宇宙 |
Research Abstract |
The main goal of this project was to develop and fabricate an ultra-wide imager (named Hyper Suprim-Cam: HSC) mounted on the prime focus of Subaru Telescope at Mauna Kea, Hawaii. Very challenging development items such as huge aspherical lenses, highly stiff and light-weighted fine ceramics needed for lens barrel, high QE large format CCD, etc. have been all successfully cleared, and HSC camera has been manufactured and mounted on Subaru Telescope to open to the starlight. First preliminary results reveal the very high image quality (better than 0.5 arc-seconds) over the entire field of view of 1.5 degrees, promising perspective to lead world-wide research programs of Dark Energy & Dark Matter by providing extremely accurate images and their analyzed data of millions of remote galaxies.
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