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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Harris A
(2018)
A and F stars as probes of outer Galactic disc kinematics
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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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
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Costantin L
(2019)
A few StePS forward in unveiling the complexity of galaxy evolution: light-weighted stellar ages of intermediate-redshift galaxies with WEAVE
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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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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Conrad C
(2017)
A RAVE investigation on Galactic open clusters II. Open cluster pairs, groups and complexes?
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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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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Erkal D
(2017)
A sharper view of Pal 5's tails: discovery of stream perturbations with a novel non-parametric technique
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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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
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Xiang M
(2019)
Abundance Estimates for 16 Elements in 6 Million Stars from LAMOST DR5 Low-Resolution Spectra
in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
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Jofré P
(2019)
Accuracy and Precision of Industrial Stellar Abundances
in Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics
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Osorio Y
(2022)
Accurate Metallicities for Very Metal-poor Stars from the Ca ii Infrared Triplet
in The Astrophysical Journal
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Thygesen A
(2017)
An Investigation of the Formation and Line Properties of MgH in 3D Hydrodynamical Model Stellar Atmospheres
in The Astrophysical Journal
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Middleton K
(2018)
Antireflective coatings for the red camera of WEAVE spectrograph
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Schönrich R
(2017)
Assessing distances and consistency of kinematics in Gaia/TGAS
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Antoja T
(2017)
Asymmetric metallicity patterns in the stellar velocity space with RAVE
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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Wang Y
(2019)
ATLAS probe: Breakthrough science of galaxy evolution, cosmology, Milky Way, and the Solar System
in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
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Kordopatis G
(2023)
Automatic line selection for abundance determinations in large stellar spectroscopic surveys
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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De Sainte Agathe V
(2019)
Baryon acoustic oscillations at z = 2.34 from the correlations of Ly a absorption in eBOSS DR14
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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Du Mas Des Bourboux H
(2017)
Baryon acoustic oscillations from the complete SDSS-III Ly a -quasar cross-correlation function at z = 2.4
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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Blomqvist M
(2019)
Baryon acoustic oscillations from the cross-correlation of Ly a absorption and quasars in eBOSS DR14
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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Buist H
(2017)
Behaviour of streams in angle and frequency spaces in different potentials
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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Hughes S
(2022)
Calibration at elevation of the WEAVE fibre positioner
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Jofré P
(2017)
Climbing the cosmic ladder with stellar twins in RAVE with Gaia
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Veras D
(2020)
Constraining planet formation around 6-8 M? stars
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
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 |