WEAVE Detectors Completion
Lead Research Organisation:
Liverpool John Moores University
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
Silk J
(2019)
Exploring a new definition of the green valley and its implications
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Peñarrubia J
(2017)
Stellar envelopes of globular clusters embedded in dark mini-haloes
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Belokurov V
(2019)
Gaia's living and breathing Galaxy
in Nature Reviews Physics
Abbott R
(2022)
Search of the early O3 LIGO data for continuous gravitational waves from the Cassiopeia A and Vela Jr. supernova remnants
in Physical Review D
Walsh S
(2019)
Optimizing the choice of analysis method for all-sky searches for continuous gravitational waves with Einstein@Home
in Physical Review D
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
Simpson C
(2017)
Extragalactic radio surveys in the pre-Square Kilometre Array era.
in Royal Society open science
Pato M
(2017)
galkin: A new compilation of Milky Way rotation curve data
in SoftwareX
Thévenin F
(2017)
Modern Geometric Methods of Distance Determination
in Space Science Reviews
Sesar B
(2017)
Machine-learned Identification of RR Lyrae Stars from Sparse, Multi-band Data: The PS1 Sample
in The Astronomical Journal
| 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 |