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
Venn K
(2020)
The Pristine survey - IX. CFHT ESPaDOnS spectroscopic analysis of 115 bright metal-poor candidate stars
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Esposito M
(2022)
Weighing cosmic structures with clusters of galaxies and the intergalactic medium
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Schönrich R
(2017)
Assessing distances and consistency of kinematics in Gaia/TGAS
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Peñarrubia J
(2017)
Stellar envelopes of globular clusters embedded in dark mini-haloes
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Silk J
(2019)
Exploring a new definition of the green valley and its implications
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Belokurov V
(2019)
Gaia's living and breathing Galaxy
in Nature Reviews Physics
Walsh S
(2019)
Optimizing the choice of analysis method for all-sky searches for continuous gravitational waves with Einstein@Home
in Physical Review D
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
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
Weaver T
(2023)
Reconstructing Filaments around Galaxy Clusters from Spectroscopic Surveys using Machine Learning
in Research Notes of the AAS
| 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 |