Introduction of Subaru Telescope instruments

Tomonori Usuda (Subaru Telescope)

Subaru Telescope has been stably operated with high image quality since its
common use began in December 2000. During the decade, it has a suite of
eight first generation instruments;
1) Suprime-Cam, 2) FOCAS, 3) HDS, 4) IRCS, 5) OHS, 6) COMICS,
7) CIAO, and 8) AO36, and two second ones; 9) MOIRCS, 10) AO188
providing imaging and spectroscopic capabilities over the full range of
wavelengths from optical to mid-infrared. Now FMOS and LGS are commissioning
on the telescope and will be available to the astronomical community in 2010.
Subaru Telescope has also accepted four visiting instruments
(CheSS, Kyoto-3DII, HIPWAC, and HiCIAO) to make full use of their uniqueness
of each instrument. As future instruments, Subaru Telescope has now two
concrete plans:
1) HSC: a new optical wide field imager which is now being developed to
  start its commissioning in 2011.
2) WFMOS: a wide field fiber-fed optical multi-object spectrometer that
  its conceptual design has just been reviewed in February 2009 by
  Gemini Observatory.

This talk will give introduction of current instruments with a few scientific
results and future instrument upgrade plans on Subaru Telescope.