WEAVE Detectors Completion
Lead Research Organisation:
Liverpool John Moores University
Department Name: Astrophysics Research Institute
Abstract
This grant is to complete the production and commissioning of the detector system for the WEAVE spectrograph.
Planned Impact
ARI has a long tradition of strong industrial and PUS engagement. For this particular project we will continue our policy of engagement with engineering firms who will be commissioned to manufacture the structure of the instrument. In the past this has allowed firms working with us to upgrade their skills and machinery to deliver the high precision needed for astronomical instrumentation, allowing them to received grants and R&D tax credits in order to upgrade their precision machining capability and safeguarding a number of jobs at the time. In addition such firms have been able to use their work on astronomical instrumentation to enhance their reputation with other customers and has assisted them in gaining access to new markets (for example contracts with ING and CERN).
Publications
Blanton M
(2017)
Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies, and the Distant Universe
in The Astronomical Journal
PeƱarrubia J
(2017)
Stellar envelopes of globular clusters embedded in dark mini-haloes
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Liu C
(2017)
Determination of robust metallicities for metal-rich red giant branch stars An application to the globular cluster NGC 6528???
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Freeman K
(2017)
Galaxies, Globular Clusters, and Dark Matter
in Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Conrad C
(2017)
A RAVE investigation on Galactic open clusters II. Open cluster pairs, groups and complexes?
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Debattista V
(2017)
Separation of stellar populations by an evolving bar: implications for the bulge of the Milky Way
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Ting ?? Y
(2017)
Measuring 14 Elemental Abundances with R = 1800 LAMOST Spectra
in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Rosslowe C
(2017)
A deep near-infrared spectroscopic survey of the Scutum-Crux arm for Wolf-Rayet stars?
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Lagarde N
(2017)
Population synthesis to constrain Galactic and stellar physics I. Determining age and mass of thin-disc red-giant stars
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Lofthouse E
(2017)
Local analogues of high-redshift star-forming galaxies: integral field spectroscopy of green peas
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
| Description | The WEAVE detector system was successfully built to specification and is now in use at the WHT. |
| Exploitation Route | Scientific Exploitation of WEAVE |
| Sectors | Other |
| URL | https://www.ing.iac.es/astronomy/instruments/weave/weaveinst.html |