The third SWIMS Science Workshop has been held.

Simultaneous-color Wide-field Infrared Multi-object Spectrograph, or SWIMS, is a first-generation instrument for the TAO 6.5-m telescope currently under construction. SWIMS, one of the next-generation astronomical large instruments, has imaging functions (a field-of-view of 9.6 arcminφ with four detector arrays on the 6.5-m telescope) covering near-infrared wavelengths between 0.9--2.45 microns with two independent optical arms with separation at 1.4 micron. In addition, as a spectrograph, SWIMS is capable of multi-object spectroscopy (R ∼ 1000) as well as integral field spectroscopy (IFS). SWIMS will be transported to the Subaru telescope at Hawaii to perform engineering observations as a PI-type instrument from FY2016, and then will see first light on the 6.5-m telescope in FY2018.

Participants in the workshop, and Dr. J. Silverman making his presentation.

We have so far held the first workshop in September 2009 as a science workshop for the TAO near-infrared instrument, and then the second one in August 2013. And, this third workshop has aimed to share the latest development status of SWIMS with researchers, as well as to discuss various observation strategies and key science themes using SWIMS. The workshop has featured a wide range of topics covering galaxy evolution, massive star formation, planet formation, and synergy with other observation instruments as well as a galaxy survey project using multiple medium-band filters (SWIMS-18) which is the SWIMS extragalactic legacy survey. More than 40 participants have gathered from IoA at Mitaka, NAOJ, Nagoya University, Osaka University, Sokendai, IPMU, and international institutions such as MPE (Germany) and KASI (South Korea), and we had 24 presentations in total including 5 invited talks.

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