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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

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Youakim K (2020) The Pristine Survey - VIII. The metallicity distribution function of the Milky Way halo down to the extremely metal-poor regime in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Cornwell D (2023) The probability of identifying the cosmic web environment of galaxies around clusters motivated by the Weave Wide Field Cluster Survey in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Hayden M (2020) The GALAH survey: chemodynamics of the solar neighbourhood in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Childress M (2017) OzDES multifibre spectroscopy for the Dark Energy Survey: 3-yr results and first data release in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Manser C (2020) The frequency of gaseous debris discs around white dwarfs in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Laporte C (2019) Stellar disc streams as probes of the Galactic potential and satellite impacts in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Deason A (2018) Cresting the wave: proper motions of the Eastern Banded Structure in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Kalfountzou E (2017) Observational evidence that positive and negative AGN feedback depends on galaxy mass and jet power in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Mingo B (2019) Revisiting the Fanaroff-Riley dichotomy and radio-galaxy morphology with the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Bialek S (2023) StarUnLink: identifying and mitigating signals from communication satellites in stellar spectral surveys 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