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Abstract
The Prime Focus Spectrograph is an open-use instrument on the Subaru Telescope, just beginning scientific observations. It offers simultaneous optical and near-IR spectroscopy of nearly 2,400 objects in the same focal plane.
Nature AstronomyPhysics and Astronomy-Astronomy and Astrophysics
CiteScore
19.50
自引率
2.80%
发文量
252
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