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
Sesar B
(2017)
Machine-learned Identification of RR Lyrae Stars from Sparse, Multi-band Data: The PS1 Sample
in The Astronomical Journal
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
Johnston K
(2017)
Disk Heating, Galactoseismology, and the Formation of Stellar Halos
in Galaxies
Erkal D
(2017)
A sharper view of Pal 5's tails: discovery of stream perturbations with a novel non-parametric technique
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Simpson C
(2017)
Extragalactic radio surveys in the pre-Square Kilometre Array era.
in Royal Society open science
Simpson J
(2017)
Siriusly, a newly identified intermediate-age Milky Way stellar cluster: a spectroscopic study of Gaia 1
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Ting ?? Y
(2017)
Measuring 14 Elemental Abundances with R = 1800 LAMOST Spectra
in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Blanton M
(2017)
Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies, and the Distant Universe
in The Astronomical Journal
DomÃnguez-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
Hansen C
(2017)
Something borrowed, something blue: The nature of blue metal-poor stars inferred from their colours and chemical abundances
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
| 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 |