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
Rendle B
(2019)
The K2 Galactic Caps Project - going beyond the Kepler field and ageing the Galactic disc
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Pittordis C
(2019)
Testing modified gravity with wide binaries in Gaia DR2
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
Peralta De Arriba L.
(2019)
The WEAVE Quick-Look GUI
in Highlights on Spanish Astrophysics X
Pato M
(2017)
galkin: A new compilation of Milky Way rotation curve data
in SoftwareX
Pancino E
(2017)
The Gaia -ESO Survey: Calibration strategy
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Padilla C
(2019)
The Physics of the Accelerating Universe Camera
in The Astronomical Journal
Osorio Y
(2022)
Accurate Metallicities for Very Metal-poor Stars from the Ca ii Infrared Triplet
in The Astrophysical Journal
Orenstein B
(2019)
The redshift distribution of infrared-faint radio sources
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Oliva E
(2019)
Experimental characterization of modal noise in multimode fibers for astronomical spectrometers
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Ness M
(2019)
In the Galactic Disk, Stellar [Fe/H] and Age Predict Orbits and Precise [X/Fe]
in The Astrophysical Journal
Ness M
(2018)
Galactic Doppelgängers: The Chemical Similarity Among Field Stars and Among Stars with a Common Birth Origin
in The Astrophysical Journal
Nepal S
(2023)
The Gaia -ESO Survey: Preparing the ground for 4MOST and WEAVE galactic surveys Chemical evolution of lithium with machine learning
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Morrison S
(2019)
Probing inhomogeneity in the helium ionizing UV background
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Morabito L
(2017)
Investigating the unification of LOFAR-detected powerful AGN in the Boötes field
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Mooney S
(2019)
Revisiting the Fanaroff-Riley dichotomy and radio-galaxy morphology with the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey (LoTSS)
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Monreal-Ibero A
(2017)
The Wolf-Rayet star population in the dwarf galaxy NGC 625
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Monreal-Ibero A
(2017)
Measuring diffuse interstellar bands with cool stars Improved line lists to model background stellar spectra?
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Monari G
(2019)
Signatures of the resonances of a large Galactic bar in local velocity space
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Mints A
(2019)
Ensemble age inversions for large spectroscopic surveys
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Minchev I
(2019)
Yule-Simpson's paradox in Galactic Archaeology
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Miller J
(2019)
Searching for the shadows of giants: characterizing protoclusters with line of sight Lyman-a absorption
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Miglio A
(2017)
PLATO as it is : A legacy mission for Galactic archaeology
in Astronomische Nachrichten
Middleton K
(2018)
Antireflective coatings for the red camera of WEAVE spectrograph
| 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 |