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SWIMS will be open with shared risk in S21B at the Subaru Telescope as a PI-type instrument.
All applicants are required to contact SWIMS team in advance.
Acceptable observing modes are normal and ToO. No intensive nor service programs are accepted.
| SWIMS and MOIRCS operation in S21B | SWIMS will become a near-infrared instrument at Subaru Telescope from S21A to S22B instead of MOIRCS. Final decision on the availability of SWIMS will be made in October 2020. We note that there still remain some uncertainties related to the COVID-19 situation. In case SWIMS is unavailable in S21B, we will consider operating MOIRCS instead (if there is a sufficient demand as a backup instrument). Those who propose observations with SWIMS may want to request MOIRCS instead when SWIMS becomes unavailable. However, this option cannot change the program's scientific purpose and method. Those who want to choose this option can write the backup plan by MOIRCS on the technical justification section. MOIRCS will be hibernated if SWIMS will be used for the open-use programs. In any case, Subaru Telescope will not operate MOIRCS and SWIMS simultaneously. |
| Necessity of MOS Preimaging | SWIMS/MOS applicants who need to take pre-images with SWIMS should explicitly request it in the "Technical Justification" of the proposal. Please check the instrument web page for more details. |
| Number of MOS Masks | SWIMS/MOS applicants must explicitly describe the required number of masks in Entry 16, where the desired number as well as the minimum acceptable number should be clearly specified. Note that we have only six (6) MOS mask holders available at the beginning of S21B. |
Simultaneous-color Wide-field Infrared Multi-object Spectrograph, or SWIMS, is an imager and multi-object spectrograph in the NIR wavelength of 0.9--2.5 $&u;m. The major feature is simultaneous two-color observing capability using two optical arms (blue=0.9--1.40 μm and red=1.45--2.5 μm). It provides us with
both with a single exposure.
| SWIMS | Component Assembly |
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The field of view (FoV) of the telescope is covered with two HAWAII-2RG focal plane arrays . Gaps between arrays are ∼ 2.3 mm or ∼ 130 pixels.
| Imag. FoV [arcmin^2] | 6.6 × 3.3 |
| Spec. FoV [arcmin^2] | 2.8 × 3.3 |
| # of arrays per arm | 2 (4096 × 2048 pixels) |
| Pixel scale [arcsec/pix] | 0.095 |
| FoV Layout, Extent of spectra, and Array configuration |   |
Light-shaded regions show the FoV for the imaging mode while dark-shaded regions for the spectroscopy mode (for full range of spectra).
Black dots represent positions of source in the imaging mode which are also equivalent to the spectral positions of undeviated wavelength (λ ∼ 1.027 μm for blue, ∼ 1.734 μm for red).
Each stripe indicates the full range of the spectrum obtained (from shorter on the left to longer wavelength on the right). Note that any optical aberrations are not considered which would make the spectrum slightly broaden.
| Blue (0.9-1.4 μm) | Red (1.4-2.5 μm) | |
| Broad-band | Y (λc=1.027, Δλ=0.096) :  plot  dataJ (1.251, 0.167) :  plot data | H (1.644, 0.291) :  plot dataKs (2.139, 0.313) :  plot data |
| Medium-band | J1 (1.174, 0.118) :  plot dataJ2 (1.294, 0.123) :  plot data | H1 (1.502, 0.121) :  plot dataH2 (1.617, 0.116) :  plot dataH3 (1.735, 0.117) :  plot dataK1 (2.023, 0.138) :  plot dataK2 (2.170, 0.140) :  plot dataK3 (2.314, 0.128) :  plot data |
| Narrow-band | NB1244# (1.244, 0.015) :  plot data NB1261# (1.261, 0.016) :  plot dataPaβ (1.294, 0.038) :  plot dataPaβ-off (1.329, 0.033) :  plot data | NB1630# (1.630, 0.017) :  plot dataNB1653# (1.652, 0.016) :  plot dataPaα (1.876, 0.022) :  plot dataPaα-off (1.948, 0.036) :  plot dataNB2137# (2.133, 0.021) :  plot dataNB2167# (2.164, 0.022) :  plot data |
| Grism | zJ (2.40 Å/pix, R ∼ 700-1200 w/ 0.5" slit) | HKs (4.57 Å/pix, R ∼ 600-1000 w/ 0.5" slit) |
Filters followed by "#" are those for SWIMS-18 survey.
Requests for use for any other purpose will be also welcome.
| Transmission curves |
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ASCII data for each filter transmittance : swims-filter-data.zip
HAWAII-2RG arrays are controlled by individual readout electronics consisting of a SIDECAR ASIC and its interface board JADE-2.
Under cryogenic condition (blue ∼ 90K, red ∼ 80K), the detector performance has been assessed, as listed below.
| blue left (b2) | blue right (b1) | red left (r1) | red right (r2) | |
| Array ID and grade | #17285 ENG | #16321 SCI | #196 SCI | #206 SCI |
| Dark Current [e-/sec/pix] | < 0.11 | < 0.17 | < 0.03 | < 0.06 |
| Readout Noise (CDS and 32 Fowler) [e-] | ∼ 22, ∼ 7 | ∼ 18, ∼ 4 | ∼ 20, ∼ 4 | ∼ 20, ∼ 5 |
| Frame Readout Time [sec] | 1.48 (32-ch readout w/ 100 kHz pixel rate) | |||
| Minimum Exposure Time including Overheads [sec] | ∼ 8 | |||
| FITS creation Time | t_frame (1.48 sec) + t_exp + t_overhead (∼ 6.5 sec + t_frame*n_read) | |||
| - t_frame: time to read 2K × 2K pixels - t_exp: exposure time for each pixel (from the 1st to the 2nd readout) - t_overhead: parameter setting, CDS calculation, # of Fowler. - n_read: # of Fowler sampling. | ||||
Note that Up-the-Ramp sampling mode is not available due to hardware limitation.
The cryogenic storage called the carousel have 23 slots. Of them, several kinds of engineering-use masks and long-slit masks (one slot each), and one Integral Field Spectroscopy Unit (IFU) module (occupying two slots) are exclusively assigned. Other (∼ 15) slots can be used for users' MOS masks. At the moment, there are only 6 slit mask frames for science use, which would constrain the number of frames in a observing night. To use more than 7 frames, it requires thermal cycle of the carousel which takes about 2 days for warming and 3 days for cooling.
The time for target acquisition is about 15 minutes. The time required to exchange from one mask to another is about 2.5 minutes (and additional 5 seconds/slot to rotate the carousel).
Note that IFU function is not available in S21B.
Mask design and spectral coverage: The array gap (∼ 130 pix) produces a lack of spectral data (∼ 312 Å for blue and 594 Å for red). Pay attention to that in designing your slit mask(s). The only way to obtain the full spectral information between 0.9--2.5 μm is to prepare another slit mask in which the slit pattern is the same but all the slits are moved (more than 130 pix) along spatial direction.
Total throughput including the telescope and the atmosphere is evaluated to be ∼ 0.4 for imaging and ∼ 0.3 for spectroscopy.
Note that the sensitivities described below may change according to the background conditions of OH airglow and thermal emission.
| Point source [ABmag] | Y=25.2, J=24.9, H=24.2, Ks=24.4 | J1-2~25.0, H1-3~23.7, K1-3~24.0 |
| Extended source [ABmag/arcsec^2] | TBW | TBW |
| Point source [ABmag] | Y=20.1, J=20.5, H=20.5, Ks=20.4 |
| Extended source [ABmag/arcsec^2] | TBW |
A reduction pipeline for imaging data is available at here. The pipeline is written in Python, which has been confirmed to work with Python 2.7 and 3.7, and follows standard procedures from flat-fielding to final stacking.
We have no dedicated tools for spectroscopic data at the moment. Other pipelines such as MCSMDP for MOIRCS may work with SWIMS data, or certainly IRAF is also useful (although it has not been maintained any more).
If you have any questions, contact us at kmotohara_at_ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp.
