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Yosuke Minowa
Researcher at National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Japan
Publications - 109
Citations - 2066
Yosuke Minowa is an academic researcher from National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Japan. The author has contributed to research in topics: Subaru Telescope & Adaptive optics. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 94 publications receiving 1769 citations. Previous affiliations of Yosuke Minowa include Subaru & University of Tokyo.
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The Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics System: Enabling High-Contrast Imaging on Solar-System Scales
Nemanja Jovanovic,Nemanja Jovanovic,Frantz Martinache,Olivier Guyon,Olivier Guyon,Christophe Clergeon,Garima Singh,Garima Singh,Tomoyuki Kudo,Vincent Garrel,K. Newman,K. Newman,D. Doughty,D. Doughty,Julien Lozi,Jared R. Males,Yosuke Minowa,Yutaka Hayano,Naruhisa Takato,Jun-Ichi Morino,Jonas Kühn,Eugene Serabyn,Barnaby Norris,Peter G. Tuthill,Guillaume Schworer,Paul Stewart,Laird M. Close,Elsa Huby,Guy Perrin,Sylvestre Lacour,L. Gauchet,Sébastien Vievard,Naoshi Murakami,Fumika Oshiyama,Naoshi Baba,Taro Matsuo,Jun Nishikawa,Motohide Tamura,Motohide Tamura,Olivier Lai,Olivier Lai,Franck Marchis,Gaspard Duchêne,Gaspard Duchêne,Takayuki Kotani,Julien Woillez +45 more
TL;DR: The Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics (SCExAO) instrument as discussed by the authors is a multiband instrument which makes use of light from 600 to 2500 nm, allowing for coronagraphic direct exoplanet imaging of the inner 3λ/D from the stellar host.
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Commissioning status of Subaru laser guide star adaptive optics system
Yutaka Hayano,Hideki Takami,Shin Oya,Masayuki Hattori,Yoshihiko Saito,Makoto Watanabe,Olivier Guyon,Olivier Guyon,Yosuke Minowa,Sebastian Egner,Meguru Ito,Vincent Garrel,Stephen Colley,Taras Golota,Masanori Iye +14 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the current status of commissioning and recent results in performance of the Subaru laser guide star adaptive optics system is presented, which continuously achieved around 0.6 to 0.7 of Strehl ratio at K band using a bright guide star around 9th to 10th magnitude in R band.
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Performance of Subaru adaptive optics system AO188
Yosuke Minowa,Yutaka Hayano,Shin Oya,Makoto Watanabe,Masayuki Hattori,Olivier Guyon,Sebastian Egner,Yoshihiko Saito,Meguro Ito,Hideki Takami,Vincent Garrel,Stephen Colley,Taras Golota,Masanori Iye +13 more
TL;DR: Subaru adaptive optics system (AO188) as mentioned in this paper is an 188-elements curvature sensor adaptive optical system that is operated in both natural and laser guide star modes, it achieves K-band Strehl ratio between 60% and 70% using R =9.0 magnitude natural guide stars and it works well with faint guide stars down to R =1 6.5 magnitude.
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Current status of the laser guide star adaptive optics system for Subaru Telescope
Yutaka Hayano,Hideki Takami,Olivier Guyon,Shin Oya,Masayuki Hattori,Yoshihiko Saito,Makoto Watanabe,Naoshi Murakami,Yosuke Minowa,Meguru Ito,Stephen Colley,Michael Eldred,Taras Golota,Matthew Dinkins,Nobunari Kashikawa,Masanori Iye +15 more
TL;DR: The current status and recent results for the laser guide star adaptive optics system for the Subaru Telescope is presented in this article, where a first light using natural guide star and succeed to launch the sodium laser beam in October 2006.
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Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) for the Subaru telescope: overview, recent progress, and future perspectives
Naoyuki Tamura,Naruhisa Takato,Atsushi Shimono,Yuki Moritani,Kiyoto Yabe,Yuki Ishizuka,Akitoshi Ueda,Yukiko Kamata,Hrand Aghazarian,Stéphane Arnouts,Gabriel Barban,Robert H. Barkhouser,Renato C. Borges,David F. Braun,Michael A. Carr,Pierre-Yves Chabaud,Yin-Chang Chang,Hsin-Yo Chen,Masashi Chiba,Richard C. Y. Chou,You-Hua Chu,Judith G. Cohen,Rodrigo P. de Almeida,Antonio Cesar de Oliveira,Ligia Souza de Oliveira,Richard Dekany,Kjetil Dohlen,Jesulino Bispo dos Santos,Leandro Henrique dos Santos,Richard S. Ellis,Maximilian Fabricius,Didier Ferrand,Décio Ferreira,Mirek Golebiowski,Jenny E. Greene,Johannes Gross,James E. Gunn,Randolph Hammond,Albert Harding,Murdock Hart,Timothy M. Heckman,Christopher M. Hirata,Paul S. Ho,Stephen C. Hope,Larry E. Hovland,Shu-Fu Hsu,Yen-Shan Hu,Ping-Jie Huang,Marc Jaquet,Yipeng Jing,Jennifer L. Karr,Masahiko Kimura,Matthew E. King,Eiichiro Komatsu,Vincent Le Brun,Olivier Le Fevre,Arnaud Le Fur,David Le Mignant,Hung-Hsu Ling,Craig Loomis,Robert H. Lupton,Fabrice Madec,Peter H. Mao,Lucas Souza Marrara,Claudia Mendes de Oliveira,Yosuke Minowa,Chaz Morantz,Hitoshi Murayama,Graham J. Murray,Youichi Ohyama,Joe D. Orndorff,Sandrine Pascal,Jefferson M. Pereira,Daniel J. Reiley,Martin Reinecke,Andreas Ritter,Mitsuko Roberts,Mark A. Schwochert,Michael Seiffert,Stephen A. Smee,Laerte Sodré,David N. Spergel,Aaron J. Steinkraus,Michael A. Strauss,Christian Surace,Yasushi Suto,Nao Suzuki,John D. Swinbank,Philip J. Tait,Masahiro Takada,Tomonori Tamura,Yoko Tanaka,Laurence Tresse,Orlando Verducci,D. Vibert,Clément Vidal,Shiang-Yu Wang,C.-Y. Wen,Chi-Hung Yan,Naoki Yasuda +99 more
TL;DR: PFS (Prime Focus Spectrograph) as discussed by the authors is a next generation facility instrument on the 8.2-meter Subaru Telescope, which is a very wide-field, massively multiplexed, optical and near-infrared spectrograph.