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

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Shipp N (2019) Proper Motions of Stellar Streams Discovered in the Dark Energy Survey in The Astrophysical Journal

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Ness M (2018) Galactic Doppelgängers: The Chemical Similarity Among Field Stars and Among Stars with a Common Birth Origin in The Astrophysical Journal

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Domínguez-Tenreiro R (2017) The Radial Distribution of Mono-metallicity Populations in the Galactic Disk as Evidence for Two-phase Disk Formation in The Astrophysical Journal

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Conroy C (2019) Mapping the Stellar Halo with the H3 Spectroscopic Survey in The Astrophysical Journal

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Ting Y (2017) Prospects for Measuring Abundances of >20 Elements with Low-resolution Stellar Spectra in The Astrophysical Journal

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Sinigaglia F (2022) Mapping the Three-dimensional Lya Forest Large-scale Structure in Real and Redshift Space* in The Astrophysical Journal

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Griv E (2017) The Spiral Arm Segments of the Galaxy within 3 kpc from the Sun: A Statistical Approach in The Astrophysical Journal

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Garavito-Camargo N (2019) Hunting for the Dark Matter Wake Induced by the Large Magellanic Cloud in The Astrophysical Journal

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Thomas G (2019) Dwarfs or Giants? Stellar Metallicities and Distances from ugrizG Multiband Photometry in The Astrophysical Journal

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Haines T (2019) Implications of a Time-varying Galactic Potential for Determinations of the Dynamical Surface Density in The Astrophysical 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