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
Ditrani F
(2023)
Stellar metallicity from optical and UV spectral indices: Test case for WEAVE-StePS
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Cescutti G
(2022)
MINCE I. Presentation of the project and of the first year sample
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Nepal S
(2023)
The Gaia -ESO Survey: Preparing the ground for 4MOST and WEAVE galactic surveys Chemical evolution of lithium with machine learning
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Oliva E
(2019)
Experimental characterization of modal noise in multimode fibers for astronomical spectrometers
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Williger G
(2023)
James Robert Lewis (1959-2019)
in Bulletin of the AAS
Tortora C
(2022)
The Central Dark Matter Fraction of Massive Early-Type Galaxies
in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
Johnston K
(2017)
Disk Heating, Galactoseismology, and the Formation of Stellar Halos
in Galaxies
Carrera R.
(2019)
Open clusters through the eyes of WEAVE
in Highlights on Spanish Astrophysics X
Lewis J.
(2019)
The WEAVE Core Processing System at CASU
in Highlights on Spanish Astrophysics X
Peralta De Arriba L.
(2019)
The WEAVE Quick-Look GUI
in Highlights on Spanish Astrophysics X
Burden A
(2017)
Mitigating the impact of the DESI fiber assignment on galaxy clustering
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Chabanier S
(2019)
The one-dimensional power spectrum from the SDSS DR14 Lya forests
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Harris A
(2018)
A and F stars as probes of outer Galactic disc kinematics
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Laporte C
(2019)
Stellar disc streams as probes of the Galactic potential and satellite impacts
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Pittordis C
(2019)
Testing modified gravity with wide binaries in Gaia DR2
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Williams W
(2018)
LOFAR-Boötes: properties of high- and low-excitation radio galaxies at 0.5 < z < 2.0
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gómez F
(2019)
Footprints of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy in the Gaia data set
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Zwitter T
(2020)
The GALAH survey: chemodynamics of the solar neighbourhood
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Aguado D
(2019)
The Pristine survey - VI. The first three years of medium-resolution follow-up spectroscopy of Pristine EMP star candidates
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Jofré P
(2017)
Climbing the cosmic ladder with stellar twins in RAVE with Gaia
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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
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
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
Žerjal M
(2019)
The GALAH Survey: lithium-strong KM dwarfs
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
De Boer T
(2018)
The fall of the Northern Unicorn: tangential motions in the Galactic anticentre with SDSS and Gaia
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Ciuca I
(2018)
The vertical metallicity gradients of mono-age stellar populations in the Milky Way with the RAVE and Gaia data
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Rendle B
(2019)
The K2 Galactic Caps Project - going beyond the Kepler field and ageing the Galactic disc
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Vos J
(2019)
Gaia Data Release 2 catalogue of extremely low-mass white dwarf candidates
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Salvadori S
(2019)
Probing the existence of very massive first stars
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Morabito L
(2017)
Investigating the unification of LOFAR-detected powerful AGN in the Boötes field
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Veras D
(2020)
Constraining planet formation around 6-8 M? stars
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gonzalez-Perez V
(2017)
The host dark matter haloes of [O II] emitters at 0.5 < z < 1.5
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Fratta M
(2023)
Spectroscopic follow-up of a subset of the Gaia /IPHAS catalogue of Ha-excess sources
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Smith D
(2018)
Panchromatic SED modelling of spatially resolved galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Duncan K
(2018)
Photometric redshifts for the next generation of deep radio continuum surveys - I. Template fitting
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
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
Mateu C
(2017)
Predictions for the detection of tidal streams with Gaia using great-circle methods
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Storm N
(2023)
Observational constraints on the origin of the elements - VII. NLTE analysis of Y ii lines in spectra of cool stars and implications for Y as a Galactic chemical clock
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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
Bestenlehner J
(2024)
Spectroscopic analysis of hot, massive stars in large spectroscopic surveys with de-idealized models
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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
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
Das P
(2020)
seestar: Selection functions for spectroscopic surveys of the Milky Way
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Lombardo L
(2023)
The Pristine survey - XXI. Exploring the metal-poor boundary with ESPaDoNS
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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
Mooney S
(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
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
Williams A
(2017)
On the run: mapping the escape speed across the Galaxy with SDSS
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Jin S
(2023)
The wide-field, multiplexed, spectroscopic facility WEAVE: Survey design, overview, and simulated implementation
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 |