The Hyper Suprime-Cam SSP Survey: Overview and Survey Design

By H. Aihara, Nobuo Arimoto, R. Armstrong, Stéphane Arnouts, N. Bahcall, S. Bickerton, James F. Bosch, Kevin A. Bundy, P. Capak, J. Chan and 134 more. 2017

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Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) is a wide-field imaging camera on the prime focus of the 8.2m Subaru telescope on the summit of Maunakea. A team of scientists from Japan, Taiwan and Princeton University is using HSC to carry out a 300-night multi-band imaging survey of the high-latitude sky. The survey includes three layers: the Wide layer will cover 1400 deg$^2$ in five broad bands ($grizy$), with a $5\,\sigma$ point-source depth of $r \approx 26$. The Deep layer covers a total of 26~deg$^2$ in four fields, going roughly a magnitude fainter, while the UltraDeep layer goes almost a magnitude fainter still in two pointings of HSC (a total of 3.5 deg$^2$). Here we describe the instrument, the science goals of the survey, and the survey strategy and data processing. This paper serves as an introduction to a special issue of the Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, which includes a large number of technical and scientific papers describing results from the early phases of this survey.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation

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Weak Lensing for Precision Cosmology (2017, background): “Currently, three weak lensing surveys are ongoing: the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS; de Jong et al. 2013), the Dark Energy Survey (DES; Dark Energy Survey Collaboration et al. 2016), and the Hyper Suprime-Cam survey (HSC; Aihara et al. 2017).”
UniverseMachine: The correlation between galaxy growth and dark matter halo assembly from z = 0−10 (2018, background): “These may be improved with surveys that are both wide enough to find many massive galaxies and deep enough to accurately measure their profiles, such as the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program survey (HSC-SSP; Aihara et al. 2018).”
Illuminating Low Surface Brightness Galaxies with the Hyper Suprime-Cam Survey (2017, background): “An overview of the full survey design is given in Aihara et al. (2018b), and the first public data release, which covers ∼100 deg2, is described in Aihara et al. (2018a).”
Galaxy Interactions Trigger Rapid Black Hole Growth: an unprecedented view from the Hyper Suprime-Cam Survey (2017, methodology): “For further details regarding hscPipe and the HSC-SSP data releases, see Bosch et al. (2017) and Aihara et al. (2017a).”
Systematic Identification of LAEs for Visible Exploration and Reionization Research Using Subaru HSC (SILVERRUSH). I. Program strategy and clustering properties of ∼2000 Lyα emitters at z = 6–7 over the 0.3–0.5 Gpc2 survey area (2017, methodology): “Figures 2 and 3 present the transmission curves of the HSC NB816 and NB921 filters that are used in the HSC first-data release (Aihara et al. 2018).”