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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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Zavarygin E (2019) A search for cosmological anisotropy using the Lyman alpha forest from SDSS quasar spectra in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Shipp N (2019) Proper Motions of Stellar Streams Discovered in the Dark Energy Survey in The Astrophysical Journal

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Gentile Fusillo N (2019) A Gaia Data Release 2 catalogue of white dwarfs and a comparison with SDSS in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Caffau E (2019) Systematic investigation of chemical abundances derived using IR spectra obtained with GIANO in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Hale C (2019) LOFAR observations of the XMM-LSS field in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Miller J (2019) Searching for the shadows of giants: characterizing protoclusters with line of sight Lyman-a absorption in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Maiolino R (2019) De re metallica: the cosmic chemical evolution of galaxies in The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review

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Casamiquela L (2019) OCCASO - III. Iron peak and a elements of 18 open clusters. Comparison with chemical evolution models and field stars in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Žerjal M (2019) The GALAH Survey: lithium-strong KM dwarfs in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Williams W (2019) The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey III. First data release: Optical/infrared identifications and value-added catalogue in Astronomy & Astrophysics

 
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