Minowa et al. 2026, Proceedings of the SPIE, "Final design of ULTIMATE-Subaru ground layer adaptive optics system" [ADS link]
Minowa et al. 2024, Proceedings of the SPIE, "Project overview and update on ULTIMATE-Subaru: the next-generation wide-field AO instrument for the Subaru telescope" [ADS link]
Minowa et al. 2022, Proceedings of the SPIE, "ULTIMATE-Subaru: GLAO preliminary design overview" [ADS link]
Minowa et al. 2020, Proceedings of the SPIE, "ULTIMATE-Subaru: enhancing the Subaru's wide-field capability with GLAO" [ADS link]
Moriya et al. 2019, PASJ, "Searches for Population III pair-instability supernovae: Predictions for ULTIMATE-Subaru and WFIRST" [ADS link]
Adaptive Secondary Mirror (ASM)
Oya et al. 2026, Proceedings of the SPIE, "ULTIMATE-Subaru: adaptive secondary mirror development status update" [ADS link]
Chou et al. 2026, Proceedings of the SPIE, "Ultimate-Subaru: design of the optical test platform for the calibration process of the adaptive secondary mirror and the wave front sensor" [ADS link]
Okita et al. 2026, Proceedings of the SPIE, "ULTIMATE-Subaru: interface between adaptive secondary mirror and the telescope" [ADS link]
Takagi et al. 2026, Proceedings of the SPIE, "ULTIMATE-Subaru: concept and the strategy of the calibration process of the adaptive secondary mirror and the wavefront sensor" [ADS link]
Oya et al. 2024, Proceedings of the SPIE, "ULTIMATE-Subaru: adaptive secondary mirror development status" [ADS link]
Oya et al. 2022, Proceedings of the SPIE, "ULTIMATE-Subaru: adaptive secondary mirror system" [ADS link]
Laser Guide Star Facility (LGSF)
Martinez et al. 2024, Proceedings of the SPIE, "How to design your next generation laser guide star facility: assessing sodium photon return availability for the GLAO laser guide star facility in ULTIMATE-Subaru" [ADS link]
Martinez et al. 2022, Proceedings of the SPIE, "Preliminary design of the Laser Guide Star Facility for the ULTIMATE-Subaru Ground Layer Adaptive Optics system" [ADS link]
Laser/Natural Guide Star Wavefront Sensor
Martinez et al. 2026, Proceedings of the SPIE, "ULTIMATE-Subaru ground layer adaptive optics enters production phase at the Australian National University" [ADS link]
Y. Tanaka et al. 2026, Proceedings of the SPIE, "Optical performance verification of the ULTIMATE-Subaru wavefront sensor subsystem" [ADS link]
Ogane et al. 2024, Proceedings of the SPIE, "Prototyping activities of laser/natural guide star wavefront sensors for ULTIMATE-Subaru GLAO" [ADS link]
Terao et al. 2024, Proceedings of the SPIE, "Initial performance testing for the wavefront sensor image acquisition system of the ULTIMATE-Subaru ground-layer adaptive optics" [ADS link]
Herrald et al. 2024, Proceedings of the SPIE, "ULTIMATE-Subaru GLAO star simulator: a Cassegrain mounted wave front sensor calibration source" [ADS link]
Martinez et al. 2022, Proceedings of the SPIE, "Wavefront sensing over a 20-arcmin field in the ULTIMATE-Subaru Ground Layer Adaptive Optics system" [ADS link]
Y. Tanaka et al. 2022, Proceedings of the SPIE, "Optical design of the wavefront sensing in the ULTIMATE-Subaru Ground Layer Adaptive Optics system" [ADS link]
Control System
Ono et al. 2024, Proceedings of the SPIE, "Temporal control of the ground-layer adaptive optics system in ULTIMATE-Subaru" [ADS link]
Kushibiki et al. 2026, Proceedings of the SPIE, "Final design of wide field imager (WFI) for ULTIMATE-Subaru" [ADS link]
Ali et al. 2024, Proceedings of the SPIE, "ULTIMATE-Subaru: sensitivity performance of the NIR wide-field imaging camera with ground layer adaptive optics" [ADS link]
Motohara et al. 2020, Proceedings of the SPIE, "ULTIMATE-Subaru: conceptual design of WFI, a near-infrared wide field imager" [ADS link]
Minowa et al. 2020, Proceedings of the SPIE, "ULTIMATE-Subaru: system performance modeling of GLAO and wide-field NIR instruments" [ADS link]
Akiyama et al. 2024, Proceedings of the SPIE, "ULTIMATE-START: results of on-sky engineering observations of a prototype Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor with the Subaru Telescope" [ADS link]
Ojika et al. 2024, Proceedings of the SPIE, "ULTIMATE-START: development of a propagation model for 4-beam laser guide stars" [ADS link]
Terao et al. 2022, Proceedings of the SPIE, "ULTIMATE-START: current status of the Subaru Tomography Adaptive optics Research experimenT" [ADS link]
Akiyama et al. 2020, Proceedings of the SPIE, "ULTIMATE-START: Subaru tomography adaptive optics research experiment project overview" [ADS link]