Hiroaki AiharaNobuo ArimotoRobert ArmstrongStéphane ArnoutsNeta A. BahcallSteven BickertonJames BoschKevin BundyPeter L. CapakJames H.H. ChanMasashi ChibaJean CouponEiichi EgamiMotohiro EnokiFrancois FinetHiroki FujimoriSeiji FujimotoHisanori FurusawaJunko FurusawaTomotsugu GotoAndy GouldingJohnny P. GrecoJenny E. GreeneJames E. GunnTakashi HamanaYuichi HarikaneYasuhiro HashimotoTakashi HattoriMasao HayashiYusuke HayashiKrzysztof G. HełminiakRyo HiguchiChiaki HikagePaul T.P. HoBau Ching HsiehKuiyun HuangSong HuangHiroyuki IkedaMasatoshi ImanishiAkio K. InoueKazushi IwasawaIkuru IwataAnton T. JaelaniHung Yu JianYukiko KamataHiroshi KarojiNobunari KashikawaNobuhiko KatayamaSatoshi KawanomotoIssha KayoJin KodaMichitaro KoikeTakashi KojimaYutaka KomiyamaAkira KonnoShintaro KoshidaYusei KoyamaHaruka KusakabeAlexie LeauthaudChien Hsiu LeeLihwai LinYen Ting LinRobert H. LuptonRachel MandelbaumYoshiki MatsuokaElinor MedezinskiSogo MineoShoken MiyamaHironao MiyatakeSatoshi MiyazakiRieko MomoseAnupreeta MoreSurhud MoreYuki MoritaniTakashi J.M. OriyaTomoki MorokumaShiro MukaeRyoma MurataHitoshi MurayamaTohru NagaoFumiaki NakataMana NiidaHiroko NiikuraAtsushi J. NishizawaYoshiyuki ObuchiMasamune OguriYukie OishiNobuhiro OkabeSakurako OkamotoYuki OkuraYoshiaki OnoMasato OnoderaMasafusa OnoueKen OsatoMasami OuchiPaul A. PriceTae Soo PyoMasao SakoMarcin SawickiTakatoshi ShibuyaResearch Center for the Early UniverseAcademia Sinica, Institute of Astronomy and AstrophysicsInstitucio Catalana de Recerca I Estudis AvancatsShanghai Astronomical Observatory Chinese Academy of SciencesCalifornia Institute of TechnologyHiroshima UniversityNational Institutes of Natural Sciences - National Astronomical Observatory of JapanTokyo University of TechnologyCarnegie Mellon UniversityNicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of SciencesStony Brook UniversityUniversity of TokyoUniversity of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California, Santa CruzOsaka Sangyo UniversityNational Taiwan Normal UniversityThe Graduate University for Advanced StudiesNational Tsing Hua UniversityNational Institutes of Natural SciencesRikenSaint Mary's UniversityKobe UniversityUniversity of ArizonaJet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of TechnologyTohoku UniversityLaboratoire d'Astrophysique de MarseilleRiken BNL Research CenterLawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryUniversity of PennsylvaniaTokyo Keizai UniversityNational Taiwan UniversityUniversité de GenèvePrinceton UniversityEhime UniversityUniversitat de BarcelonaNagoya UniversityMeisei Electric Co. Ltd.Orbital InsightEast Asian Observatory2019-08-232019-08-232018-01-01Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan. Vol.70, No.Special Issue 1 (2018)2053051X000462642-s2.0-85041211098https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/45754© The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Astronomical Society of Japan. All rights reserved. Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) is a wide-field imaging camera on the prime focus of the 8.2-m Subaru telescope on the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii. A team of scientists from Japan, Taiwan, and Princeton University is using HSC to carry out a 300-night multi-band imaging survey of the high-latitude sky. The survey includes three layers: the Wide layer will cover 1400 deg2 in five broad bands (grizy), with a 5 σ point-source depth of r ≈ 26. The Deep layer covers a total of 26 deg 2 in four fields, going roughly a magnitude fainter, while the UltraDeep layer goes almost a magnitude fainter still in two pointings of HSC (a total of 3.5 deg 2 ). Here we describe the instrument, the science goals of the survey, and the survey strategy and data processing. This paper serves as an introduction to a special issue of the Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, which includes a large number of technical and scientific papers describing results from the early phases of this survey.Mahidol UniversityEarth and Planetary SciencesPhysics and AstronomyArticleSCOPUS10.1093/pasj/psx066