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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Orenstein B
(2019)
The redshift distribution of infrared-faint radio sources
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Ted Mackereth J
(2017)
The age-metallicity structure of the Milky Way disc using APOGEE
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Sharma S
(2019)
The K2-HERMES Survey: age and metallicity of the thick disc
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Youakim K
(2020)
The Pristine Survey - VIII. The metallicity distribution function of the Milky Way halo down to the extremely metal-poor regime
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Widmark A
(2019)
The dynamical matter density in the solar neighbourhood inferred from Gaia DR1
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Ichikawa K
(2017)
Foreground effect on the J-factor estimation of classical dwarf spheroidal galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Starkenburg E
(2017)
The Pristine survey - I. Mining the Galaxy for the most metal-poor stars
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Smith L
(2018)
VIRAC: the VVV Infrared Astrometric Catalogue
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Minchev I
(2019)
Yule-Simpson's paradox in Galactic Archaeology
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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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
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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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Cornwell D
(2022)
Forecasting the success of the WEAVE Wide-Field Cluster Survey on the extraction of the cosmic web filaments around galaxy clusters
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Kumari N
(2018)
O/H-N/O: the curious case of NGC 4670
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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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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Casamiquela L
(2019)
OCCASO - III. Iron peak and a elements of 18 open clusters. Comparison with chemical evolution models and field stars
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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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
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Li T
(2019)
The southern stellar stream spectroscopic survey (S5): Overview, target selection, data reduction, validation, and early science
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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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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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
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Deason A
(2018)
Cresting the wave: proper motions of the Eastern Banded Structure
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Morrison S
(2019)
Probing inhomogeneity in the helium ionizing UV background
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Leung H
(2018)
Deep learning of multi-element abundances from high-resolution spectroscopic data
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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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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Youakim K
(2017)
The Pristine survey - III. Spectroscopic confirmation of an efficient search for extremely metal-poor stars
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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González-Morales A
(2017)
Unbiased constraints on ultralight axion mass from dwarf spheroidal galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Kraljic K
(2022)
Forecasts for WEAVE-QSO: 3D clustering and connectivity of critical points with Lyman- a tomography
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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González M
(2017)
Phase-space structures and stellar populations in the star-forming region NGC 2264
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Cornwell D
(2023)
The probability of identifying the cosmic web environment of galaxies around clusters motivated by the Weave Wide Field Cluster Survey
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Gürkan G
(2018)
LOFAR/H-ATLAS: the low-frequency radio luminosity-star formation rate relation
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Mancera Piña P
(2019)
The evolution of ultra-diffuse galaxies in nearby galaxy clusters from the Kapteyn IAC WEAVE INT Clusters Survey
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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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
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Esposito M
(2022)
Weighing cosmic structures with clusters of galaxies and the intergalactic medium
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Schönrich R
(2017)
Assessing distances and consistency of kinematics in Gaia/TGAS
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Peñarrubia J
(2017)
Stellar envelopes of globular clusters embedded in dark mini-haloes
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
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Silk J
(2019)
Exploring a new definition of the green valley and its implications
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
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Belokurov V
(2019)
Gaia's living and breathing Galaxy
in Nature Reviews Physics
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Walsh S
(2019)
Optimizing the choice of analysis method for all-sky searches for continuous gravitational waves with Einstein@Home
in Physical Review D
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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
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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
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Weaver T
(2023)
Reconstructing Filaments around Galaxy Clusters from Spectroscopic Surveys using Machine Learning
in Research Notes of the AAS
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Simpson C
(2017)
Extragalactic radio surveys in the pre-Square Kilometre Array era.
in Royal Society open science
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Pato M
(2017)
galkin: A new compilation of Milky Way rotation curve data
in SoftwareX
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Thévenin F
(2017)
Modern Geometric Methods of Distance Determination
in Space Science Reviews
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Padilla C
(2019)
The Physics of the Accelerating Universe Camera
in The Astronomical Journal
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Sesar B
(2017)
Machine-learned Identification of RR Lyrae Stars from Sparse, Multi-band Data: The PS1 Sample
in The Astronomical Journal
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Majewski S
(2017)
The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE)
in The Astronomical Journal
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Blanton M
(2017)
Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies, and the Distant Universe
in The Astronomical Journal
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Maiolino R
(2019)
De re metallica: the cosmic chemical evolution of galaxies
in The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review
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Ness M
(2019)
In the Galactic Disk, Stellar [Fe/H] and Age Predict Orbits and Precise [X/Fe]
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
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 |