WEAVE Detectors Main Grant
Lead Research Organisation:
Liverpool John Moores University
Department Name: Astrophysics Research Institute
Abstract
This grant is to produce 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 a 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
Hale C
(2019)
LOFAR observations of the XMM-LSS field
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Ham S. J.
(2016)
Towards an Integrated Model of the WEAVE Performance
in Multi-Object Spectroscopy in the Next Decade: Big Questions, Large Surveys, and Wide Fields
Ham S. J.
(2016)
Towards an Integrated Model of the WEAVE Performance
in Multi-Object Spectroscopy in the Next Decade: Big Questions, Large Surveys, and Wide Fields
Hardcastle M
(2019)
Radio-loud AGN in the first LoTSS data release The lifetimes and environmental impact of jet-driven sources
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Harris A
(2019)
A study of full space motions of outer Galactic disc A and F stars in two deep pencil beams
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Hayden M
(2020)
The GALAH survey: chemodynamics of the solar neighbourhood
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Howes L
(2019)
Estimating stellar ages and metallicities from parallaxes and broadband photometry: successes and shortcomings
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Hughes S
(2022)
Calibration at elevation of the WEAVE fibre positioner
Hughes S
(2022)
Optimisation of the WEAVE target assignment algorithm
Izazaga R
(2018)
WEAVE spectrograph cameras: the polishing of the spherical lenses
Japelj J
(2019)
Simulating MOS science on the ELT: Ly a forest tomography
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Jofré P
(2019)
Accuracy and Precision of Industrial Stellar Abundances
in Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Khoperskov S
(2020)
Hic sunt dracones: Cartography of the Milky Way spiral arms and bar resonances with Gaia Data Release 2
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Koposov S
(2020)
Discovery of a nearby 1700 km s-1 star ejected from the Milky Way by Sgr A*
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Koppelman H
(2019)
Multiple retrograde substructures in the Galactic halo: A shattered view of Galactic history
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Kraljic K
(2022)
Forecasts for WEAVE-QSO: 3D clustering and connectivity of critical points with Lyman- a tomography
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Kushniruk I
(2019)
Disentangling the Arcturus stream
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Laporte C
(2019)
Stellar disc streams as probes of the Galactic potential and satellite impacts
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Laverick M
(2019)
The Belgian repository of fundamental atomic data and stellar spectra (BRASS) II. Quality assessment of atomic data for unblended lines in FGK stars
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Leung H
(2018)
Deep learning of multi-element abundances from high-resolution spectroscopic data
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Lewis J.
(2019)
The WEAVE Core Processing System at CASU
in Highlights on Spanish Astrophysics X
Li T
(2019)
The southern stellar stream spectroscopic survey (S5): Overview, target selection, data reduction, validation, and early science
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Lodieu N
(2019)
Metallicity, temperature, and gravity scales of M subdwarfs ,
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Mahatma V
(2019)
LoTSS DR1: Double-double radio galaxies in the HETDEX field
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Maiolino R
(2019)
De re metallica: the cosmic chemical evolution of galaxies
in The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review
Mancera Piña P
(2019)
The evolution of ultra-diffuse galaxies in nearby galaxy clusters from the Kapteyn IAC WEAVE INT Clusters Survey
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Mancera Piña P
(2019)
The evolution of ultra-diffuse galaxies in nearby galaxy clusters from the Kapteyn IAC WEAVE INT Clusters Survey
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Manser C
(2020)
The frequency of gaseous debris discs around white dwarfs
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Marasco A
(2019)
HALOGAS: the properties of extraplanar HI in disc galaxies
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Middleton K
(2018)
Low-level control software for the WEAVE spectrograph
Middleton K
(2018)
The polishing of WEAVE spectrograph collimator mirror
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
Minchev I
(2019)
Yule-Simpson's paradox in Galactic Archaeology
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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
Mints A
(2019)
Ensemble age inversions for large spectroscopic surveys
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Molinari E.
(2016)
WAS: Textures of the WEAVE Science Archive
in Multi-Object Spectroscopy in the Next Decade: Big Questions, Large Surveys, and Wide Fields
Molinari E.
(2016)
WAS: Textures of the WEAVE Science Archive
in Multi-Object Spectroscopy in the Next Decade: Big Questions, Large Surveys, and Wide Fields
Monari G
(2019)
Signatures of the resonances of a large Galactic bar in local velocity space
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Mongui
(2016)
A WEAVE Radial Velocity Survey to Unravel the Nature of the Milky Way's Spiral Arms
in Multi-Object Spectroscopy in the Next Decade: Big Questions, Large Surveys, and Wide Fields
Mongui
(2016)
A WEAVE Radial Velocity Survey to Unravel the Nature of the Milky Way's Spiral Arms
in Multi-Object Spectroscopy in the Next Decade: Big Questions, Large Surveys, and Wide Fields
Morrison S
(2019)
Probing inhomogeneity in the helium ionizing UV background
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Ness M
(2019)
In the Galactic Disk, Stellar [Fe/H] and Age Predict Orbits and Precise [X/Fe]
in The Astrophysical Journal
Oliva E
(2019)
Experimental characterization of modal noise in multimode fibers for astronomical spectrometers
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Orenstein B
(2019)
The redshift distribution of infrared-faint radio sources
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Osorio Y
(2022)
Accurate Metallicities for Very Metal-poor Stars from the Ca ii Infrared Triplet
in The Astrophysical Journal
Padilla C
(2019)
The Physics of the Accelerating Universe Camera
in The Astronomical Journal
Peralta De Arriba L.
(2019)
The WEAVE Quick-Look GUI
in Highlights on Spanish Astrophysics X
| Description | The WEAVE detector system was successfully built to specification and is now in use at the WHT. |
| Exploitation Route | Science exploitation |
| Sectors | Other |
| URL | https://www.ing.iac.es/astronomy/instruments/weave/weaveinst.html |
| Description | Collaboration with Isaac Newton Group |
| Organisation | Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING) |
| Country | Spain |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Joint development of detector systems |
| Collaborator Contribution | Expertise in operations and use |
| Impact | Development in ongoing, with completion of the new system due in 2018. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Collaboration with University of Oxford |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Scientific Expertise, Access to telescope time |
| Collaborator Contribution | Scientific Expertise, Financial Contribution |
| Impact | Collaboration on followup of LOFAR radio transients starting in early 2014. |
| Start Year | 2014 |