FOCAS: faint object camera and spectrograph for the Subaru Telescope

By N. Kashikawa, M. Inata, M. Iye, K. Kawabata, K. Okita, G. Kosugi, Y. Ohyama, T. Sasaki, K. Sekiguchi, T. Takata and 9 more. Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 2000

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Multimessenger observations of a flaring blazar coincident with high-energy neutrino IceCube-170922A (2018, background): “Y.M. conducted optical spectroscopic observations of the TXS 0506 +056 with the FOCAS spectrograph on the 8.2 m Subaru telescope.”
FUNDAMENTAL PARAMETERS AND SPECTRAL ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS OF YOUNG AND FIELD AGE OBJECTS WITH MASSES SPANNING THE STELLAR TO PLANETARY REGIME (2015, unknown): “(1) Oke et al. (1995), (2) Appenzeller et al. (1998), (3) Marshall et al. (2008), (4) Kashikawa et al. (2000), (5) Allington-Smith et al. (1994), (6) Rayner et al. (2003), (7) Allington-Smith et al. (2002), (8) Simcoe et al. (2008), (9) Elias et al. (2006), (10)Wilson et al. (2004), (11) Mountain…”
The Discovery of Two Lyman α Emitters beyond Redshift 6 in the Subaru Deep Field (2003, methodology): “In order to investigate the nature of LAE candidates found in our optical imaging survey, we obtained optical spectroscopy of nine objects in our LAE candidate sample using the Subaru Faint Object Camera And Spectrograph (FOCAS: Kashikawa et al. 2002) on 2002 June 7-9 under a 0.”
The Luminosity Function and Star Formation Rate between Redshifts of 0.07 and 1.47 for Narrowband Emitters in the Subaru Deep Field (2006, methodology): “Previous Subaru/FOCAS Spectroscopy Faint Object Camera and Spectrograph (FOCAS; Kashikawa et al. 2002) observations primarily targeting NB816 and NB921 emitters were made on 2002 June 7- 10, 2003 June 5-8, and 2004 April 24-27.”
The SUBARU Deep Field Project: Lymanα Emitters at a Redshift of 6.6 (2004, methodology): “We used the Subaru Faint Object Camera And Spectrograph (FOCAS; Kashikawa et al. 2002) on 2002 June and 2003 May and June.”
The Unique Type Ib Supernova 2005bf at Nebular Phases: A Possible Birth Event of a Strongly Magnetized Neutron Star (2007, methodology): “Spectroscopy and photometry of SN 2005bf have been performed on 2005 December 26 (UT) and on 2006 February 6 with the 8.2 m Subaru telescope equipped with the Faint Object Camera and Spectrograph (FOCAS; Kashikawa et al. 2002).”
The Subaru/XMM-Newton Deep Survey (SXDS). IV. Evolution of Lyα Emitters from z = 3.1 to 5.7 in the 1 deg2 Field: Luminosity Functions and AGN (2007, methodology): “Spectroscopic Data We carried out spectroscopic follow-up observations for our LAE candidates with Faint Object Camera and Spectrograph (FOCAS; Kashikawa et al. 2002) of Subaru and Visible MultiObject Spectrograph (VIMOS; LeFevre et al. 2003) of VLT.”
Lyα Emitters at z = 5.7 in the Subaru Deep Field (2006, methodology): “Among the ten unclear objects, eight are FOCAS objects.”
SUBARU HIGH-z EXPLORATION OF LOW-LUMINOSITY QUASARS (SHELLQs). I. DISCOVERY OF 15 QUASARS AND BRIGHT GALAXIES AT 5.7 < z < 6.9 (2016, unknown): “We also observed 19 candidates with the Faint Object Camera and Spectrograph (FOCAS; Kashikawa et al. 2002) mounted on Subaru in 2015 November and December, and identified 14 more quasars and galaxies.”
DISCOVERIES FROM A NEAR-INFRARED PROPER MOTION SURVEY USING MULTI-EPOCH TWO MICRON ALL-SKY SURVEY DATA (2010, methodology): “Other optical spectroscopic observations were carried out on 20 and 21 Aug 2007 (UT) at the Subaru Telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawai’i, using the Faint Object Camera And Spectrograph (FOCAS; Kashikawa et al. 2002).”
Clusters of Galaxies in the First Half of the Universe from the IRAC Shallow Survey (2008, methodology): “Subaru Spectroscopy Follow-up spectroscopic observations were also obtained with the FOCAS spectrograph (Kashikawa et al. 2002) on the 8.2-m Subaru Telescope in 2006 April and June.”
SILVERRUSH. IV. Lyα luminosity functions at z = 5.7 and 6.6 studied with ∼1300 Lyα emitters on the 14–21 deg2 sky (2017, methodology): “…LAE candidates whose spectroscopic redshifts are obtained by our past and present programs with Subaru/Faint Object Camera and Spectrograph (FOCAS; Kashikawa et al. 2002), Magellan/Low Dispersion Survey Spectrograph 3 (LDSS3), and Magellan/Inamori Magellan Areal Camera and Spectrograph (IMACS;…”
Great Optically Luminous Dropout Research Using Subaru HSC (GOLDRUSH). I. UV Luminosity Functions at $z \sim 4-7$ Derived with the Half-Million Dropouts on the 100 deg$^2$ Sky (2017, methodology): “…Data We carried out spectroscopic follow-up observations for sources in our catalogs with the Faint Object Camera and Spectrograph (FOCAS; Kashikawa et al. 2002) on the Subaru Telescope on 2015 September 7 (S15B-188S, PI: Y. Ono), December 2, 4 (S15B-059, PI: S. Yuma), and 12 (S16A-211S,…”
COMPLETING THE CENSUS OF Lyα EMITTERS AT THE REIONIZATION EPOCH (2011, methodology): “The target was regarded as almost perfectly centered in the slit because the typical positioning error of the slit on the target object was as small as 0′′.1 rms for both FOCAS and DEIMOS spectrographs.”