PFS Preliminary Design Review -PDR- meeting
Feb 25 – 26, 2013
Venue: Subaru Telescope, Hawaii’, NAOJ

We held sucessfully PFS Conceptual Design Review for PFS on March 19, 2012. We will now hold a Preliminary Design Review as its next step. We will invite 6 reviewers and disscuss risk managements related to technical, schedule, and financial issues etc. in addition to each design for PFS.

PDR reviewers:

•Ray Sharples (Durham) – Chair
•David Crampton (HIA/NRC)
•Tomonori Usuda (Subaru/NAOJ)
•Hermine Schnetler (United Kingdom Astronomy Technology Centre)
•Masashi Hazumi (KEK)
•John Wilson (University of Virginia)

PDR team presentation program:

【25th】
8:30 From Subaru director　(Nobuo Arimoto)
8:35 Introductory remarks　(Hitoshi Murayama)
8:50 PDR objectives　(Hajime Sugai)
　　　　　including program
8:55 Instrument overview　(Hajime Sugai)
9:25 FPRD
– science requirements　(Masahiro Takada, Richard Ellis)
– flowdown to instrument　(Naoyuki Tamura)
including error budget on the whole system
(cf. error budget on subcomponents will be included in each partner’s presentation.)
10:40 (coffee/tea)
11:00 Replies to CoDR review panel comments
including quick explanation of PDR documents
– management & technical aspects　(Hajime Sugai)
– science aspect　(Masahiro Takada, Richard Ellis)
11:30 Focal plane for PFS　(Naoyuki Tamura)
11:50 Microlens　(Naoyuki Tamura)
12:30 (lunch)
13:30 Fiber system　(Cesar Oliveira, Ligia Oliveira)
14:30 PFI　(Mark Schwochert, Shiang-Yu Wang, Reed Riddle, Dan Reiley)

15:30 (coffee/tea)
15:50 Fiber Positioner　(Charlie Fisher, Larry Hovland)
16:50 Metrology camera (Shiang-Yu Wang)
17:50

【26th】
8:30 Spectrograph　(Sebastien Vives)
9:30 Dewar & detector　(Jim Gunn, Steve Smee)
10:30 (coffee/tea)
10:50 System software (Atsushi Shimono)
including OCDD use case
11:50 (lunch)
12:50 Data reduction software (Steve Bickerton, Laurence Tresse)

13:50 Team organization, schedule, cost, risk management (Hajime Sugai, Hitoshi Murayama)
15:10 (coffee/tea)
15:30 AIT at Subaru (Naoyuki Tamura)
　　(cf. AIT of subcomponents, including spectrograph AIT at LAM and PFI AIT at JPL-CIT
　　　will be included in each partner’s presentation.)
16:00 Calibration tradeoff studies (Jim Gunn)
16:30 Other tradeoff studies　(Naoyuki Tamura)
　　(cf. tradeoff studies on subcomponents will be included in each partner’s presentation.)

17:00 (coffee/tea)
17:20 Discussion
18:20

【27th】
discussion within reviewers
~1pm: reports from reviewers
technical group meetings

【28th】
technica group meetings