HDS (High Dispersion Spectrograph) Home page

HDS resides at one of the two Nasmyth foci of the Subaru telescope, providing high-dispersion spectroscopy (R=100,000 with a 0.38 arcsec slit) over the wavelength range of 300 to 1000 nm.

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HDS user manual

    HDS user manual (PDF, 8.0MB)
   
HDS user manual (HTML)

Publications on instruments

    High Dispersion Spectrograph (HDS) for the Subaru Telescope
    K.Noguchi, et al. 2002 PASJ 54 855

Information for observers

    http://www.naoj.org/Observing/Instruments/HDS/index.html

User Support Tools



    Spectral format simulator

    Spectral format simulator

    Calculator of slit position angle
    HDS Exposure Time Calculator
    IRAF script for reduction of over-scan data

Press release

    HDS First Light ! (August 11, 2000)
    Subaru Approaches Origin of Comets (November 1, 2001)
    Discovery of the Most Metal-deficient Star Ever Found (April 13, 2005)
    A Massive-Core Hot Planet is Discovered (June 30, 2005)


Publication

    Instrument paper list
   
Refereed journal papers



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