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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Crnojevic D (2017) Outskirts of Galaxies

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

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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

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Chabanier S (2019) The one-dimensional power spectrum from the SDSS DR14 Lya forests in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

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Cescutti G (2022) MINCE I. Presentation of the project and of the first year sample in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Cenarro A (2019) J-PLUS: The Javalambre Photometric Local Universe Survey in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Casares J (2018) Hibernating black holes revealed by photometric mass functions in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Carrera R. (2019) Open clusters through the eyes of WEAVE in Highlights on Spanish Astrophysics X

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Burden A (2017) Mitigating the impact of the DESI fiber assignment on galaxy clustering in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

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Breedt E (2017) Using large spectroscopic surveys to test the double degenerate model for Type Ia supernovae in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Bosma A (2017) Outskirts of Galaxies

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Bieth M (2019) The gravitational force field of the Galaxy measured from the kinematics of RR Lyrae in Gaia in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Bianchini P (2019) Exploring the Outskirts of Globular Clusters: The Peculiar Kinematics of NGC 3201 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters

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Bialek S (2023) StarUnLink: identifying and mitigating signals from communication satellites in stellar spectral surveys in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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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

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Belokurov V (2019) Gaia's living and breathing Galaxy in Nature Reviews Physics

 
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