Publication
- ♣ Minowa et al. 2024, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 13096, id. 130961A 12 pp. [ADS link] "Project overview and update on ULTIMATE-Subaru: the next-generation wide-field AO instrument for the Subaru telescope", Minowa, Yosuke; Koyama, Yusei; Akiyama, Masayuki; Ali, Sadman; Bando, Takamasa; Carter, Joshua; Chandler, David; Chou, Chi-Yi; Cranney, Jesse; D'Orgeville, Celine; Hayano, Yutaka; Hattori, Takashi; Haynes, Roger; Haynes, Dionne; Hernandez Delgado, Angela; Herrald, Nicholas; Hirabayashi, Masayuki; Katakura, Junichi; Kimura, Masahiko; Kodama, Tadayuki; Konishi, Masahiro; Kruse, Andrew; Martinez Rey, Noelia; Morihana, Kumiko; Morita, Masaki; Motohara, Kentaro; Obuchi, Yoshiyuki; Ogane, Hajime; Okita, Hirofumi; Ono, Yoshito; Oya, Shin; Sato, Naohisa; Takagi, Yuhei; Takami, Hideki; Tanaka, Ichi; Tanaka, Yoko; Terao, Koki; Tokoku, Chihiro; Uraguchi, Fumihiro; Wang, Lu; Wang, Shiang-Yu; Yanagisawa, Kenshi; Yoshida, Hiroshige; Yoshida, Michitoshi
- ♣ Oya et al. 2024, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 13097, id. 130975I 8 pp. [ADS link] "ULTIMATE-Subaru: adaptive secondary mirror development status", Oya, Shin; Minowa, Yosuke; Okita, Hirofumi; Ono, Yoshito H.; Takami, Hideki
- ♣ Martinez et al. 2024, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 13097, id. 1309736 11 pp. [ADS link] "How to design your next generation laser guide star facility: assessing sodium photon return availability for the GLAO laser guide star facility in ULTIMATE-Subaru", Martinez, Noelia; Haguenauer, Pierre; Minowa, Yosuke; Ono, Yoshito; Haynes, Dionne; Koyama, Yusei; D'Orgeville, Celine
- ♣ Ogane et al. 2024, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 13097, id. 130973B 6 pp. [ADS link] "Prototyping activities of laser/natural guide star wavefront sensors for ULTIMATE-Subaru GLAO", Ogane, Hajime; Carter, Joshua; Chandler, David; Haynes, Dionne; Herrald, Nicholas; Martinez Rey, Noelia; Wang, Lu; Minowa, Yosuke; Ono, Yoshito; Tanaka, Yoko; Terao, Koki; Yoshida, Hiroshige; D'Orgeville, Celine
- ♣ Ono et al. 2024, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 13097, id. 130976K 9 pp. [ADS link] "Temporal control of the ground-layer adaptive optics system in ULTIMATE-Subaru", Ono, Yoshito; Minowa, Yosuke; Oya, Shin; Terao, Koki; Akiyama, Masayuki; D'Orgeville, Celine; Martínez Rey, Noelia; Cranney, Jesse
- ♣ Ali et al. 2024, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 13096, id. 130969K 12 pp. [ADS link] "ULTIMATE-Subaru: sensitivity performance of the NIR wide-field imaging camera with ground layer adaptive optics", Ali, Sadman S.; Koyama, Yusei; Motohara, Kentaro; Ono, Yoshito; Yosuke, Minowa; Tanaka, Ichi
- ♣ Akiyama et al. 2024, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 13097, id. 1309781 8 pp. [ADS link] "ULTIMATE-START: results of on-sky engineering observations of a prototype Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor with the Subaru Telescope", Akiyama, Masayuki; Minowa, Yosuke; Ono, Yoshito; Terao, Koki; Ogane, Hajime; Homan, Riki; Ichinose, Masaya; Tanabe, Hiyori; Oya, Shin
- ♣ Minowa et al. 2022, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 12185, id. 1218521 12 pp. [ADS link] "ULTIMATE-Subaru: GLAO preliminary design overview", Minowa, Yosuke; Ono, Yoshito; Tanaka, Yoko; Yoshida, Hiroshige; Terao, Koki; Koyama, Yusei; Ali, Sadman; Tanaka, Ichi; Hattori, Takashi; Okita, Hirofumi; Hayano, Yutaka; Oya, Shin; Motohara, Kentaro; Yanagisawa, Kenshi; Yoshida, Michitoshi; Akiyama, Masayuki; Kodama, Tadayuki; Ogane, Hajime; Konishi, Masahiro; Martinez Rey, Noelia; Herrald, Nicholas; d'Orgeville, Céline; Rigaut, François; Vaughn, Israel; Chandler, David; Haynes, Dionne; Schofield, Warrick; Wang, Shiang-Yu; Chou, Chi-Yi; Kimura, Masahiko
- ♣ Martinez et al. 2022, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 12185, id. 121857G 9 pp. [ADS link] "Preliminary design of the Laser Guide Star Facility for the ULTIMATE-Subaru Ground Layer Adaptive Optics system", Martinez, Noelia; Kruse, Andrew; Herrald, Nicholas; Chandler, David; Haynes, Dionne; Rigaut, Francois; Bernard, Julien Tom; Travouillon, Tony; Vaughn, Israel; Minowa, Yosuke; Ono, Yoshito; Tanaka, Yoko; Terao, Koki; D'Orgeville, Celine
- ♣ Martinez et al. 2022, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 12185, id. 121856K 8 pp. [ADS link] "Wavefront sensing over a 20-arcmin field in the ULTIMATE-Subaru Ground Layer Adaptive Optics system", Martinez, Noelia; Herrald, Nicholas; Chandler, David; Haynes, Dionne; Kruse, Andrew; Ramasundara, Wasantha; Rigaut, Francois; Bernard, Julien Tom; Travouillon, Tony; Vaughn, Israel; Minowa, Yosuke; Ono, Yoshito; Tanaka, Yoko; Terao, Koki; D'Orgeville, Celine
- ♣ Tanaka et al. 2022, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 12185, id. 121856M 14 pp. [ADS link] "Optical design of the wavefront sensing in the ULTIMATE-Subaru Ground Layer Adaptive Optics system", Tanaka, Yoko; Minowa, Yosuke; Ono, Yoshito; Terao, Koki; Yoshida, Hiroshige; Akiyama, Masayuki; Martínez Rey, Noelia; Herrald, Nicholas; D'Orgeville, Céline; Rigaut, François; Vaughn, Israel; Chandler, David; Haynes, Dionne; Schofield, Warrick
- ♣ Minowa et al. 2020, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 11450, id. 114500O 12 pp. [ADS link] "ULTIMATE-Subaru: system performance modeling of GLAO and wide-field NIR instruments", Minowa, Yosuke; Koyama, Yusei; Yanagisawa, Kenshi; Motohara, Kentaro; Tanaka, Ichi; Ono, Yoshito; Hattori, Takashi; Clergeon, Christophe; Hayano, Yutaka; Akiyama, Masayuki; Kodama, Tadayuki; d'Orgeville, Celine; Rigaut, Francois; Wang, Shiang-Yu; Yoshida, Michitoshi
- ♣ Motohara et al. 2020, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 11447, id. 114470N 10 pp. [ADS link] "ULTIMATE-Subaru: conceptual design of WFI, a near-infrared wide field imager", Motohara, Kentaro; Minowa, Yusuke; Tanaka, Ichi; Hattori, Takashi; Koyama, Yusei; Konishi, Masahiro; Yanagisawa, Kenshi; Iwata, Ikuru; Wang, Shiang-Yu; Chou, Richard C. Y.; Kimura, Masahiko; Pazder, John
- ♣ Akiyama et al. 2020, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 11448, id. 114481O 18 pp. [ADS link] "ULTIMATE-START: Subaru tomography adaptive optics research experiment project overview", Akiyama, Masayuki; Minowa, Yosuke; Ono, Yoshito; Terao, Koki; Ogane, Hajime; Oomoto, Kaoru; Iizuka, Yuta; Oya, Shin; Mieda, Etsuko; Yamamuro, Tomoyasu
- ♣ Ono et al. 2020, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 11448, id. 114480K 12 pp. [ADS link] "Overview of AO activities at Subaru Telescope", Ono, Yoshito H.; Minowa, Yosuke; Guyon, Olivier; Clergeon, Christophe S.; Mieda, Etsuko; Lozi, Julien; Hattori, Takashi; Akiyama, Masayuki
- ♣ Minowa et al. 2020, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 11203, id. 112030G 2 pp. [ADS link] "ULTIMATE-Subaru: enhancing the Subaru's wide-field capability with GLAO", Minowa, Yosuke; Koyama, Yusei; Ono, Yoshito; Tanaka, Ichi; Hattori, Takashi; Clergeon, Christophe; Akiyama, Masayuki; Kodama, Tadayuki; Motohara, Kentaro; Rigaut, Francois; d'Orgeville, Celine; Wang, Shiang-Yu; Yoshida, Michitoshi
- ♣ Moriya et al. 2019, PASJ, 71, id.59 [ADS link] "Searches for Population III pair-instability supernovae: Predictions for ULTIMATE-Subaru and WFIRST", Moriya, Takashi J.; Wong, Kenneth C.; Koyama, Yusei; Tanaka, Masaomi; Oguri, Masamune; Hilbert, Stefan; Nomoto, Ken'ichi
Study Reports
♣ Second Edition (version 2016/01/13)♦ Study report [PDF] (47 MB)
♣ First Edition (version 2012/08/07)
♦ Study Report (Japanese only) [PDF] (28.5 MB)
♦ Executive Summary (in English) [PDF] (55KB)
♦ Executive Summary (in Japanese) [PDF] (690 KB)