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
Oliva E
(2019)
Experimental characterization of modal noise in multimode fibers for astronomical spectrometers
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Zwitter T
(2020)
The GALAH survey: chemodynamics of the solar neighbourhood
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Koposov S
(2020)
Discovery of a nearby 1700 km s-1 star ejected from the Milky Way by Sgr A*
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Veras D
(2020)
Constraining planet formation around 6-8 M? stars
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Manser C
(2020)
The frequency of gaseous debris discs around white dwarfs
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Amard L
(2020)
The Impact of Metallicity on the Evolution of the Rotation and Magnetic Activity of Sun-like Stars
in The Astrophysical Journal
Das P
(2020)
seestar: Selection functions for spectroscopic surveys of the Milky Way
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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
Khoperskov S
(2020)
Hic sunt dracones: Cartography of the Milky Way spiral arms and bar resonances with Gaia Data Release 2
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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
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
Sinigaglia F
(2022)
Mapping the Three-dimensional Lya Forest Large-scale Structure in Real and Redshift Space*
in The Astrophysical Journal
Tortora C
(2022)
The Central Dark Matter Fraction of Massive Early-Type Galaxies
in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
Hughes S
(2022)
Calibration at elevation of the WEAVE fibre positioner
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
Thomas G
(2022)
The Cetus-Palca stream: A disrupted small dwarf galaxy A prequel to the science possible with WEAVE with precise spectro-photometric distances
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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
Hughes S
(2022)
Optimisation of the WEAVE target assignment algorithm
Osorio Y
(2022)
Accurate Metallicities for Very Metal-poor Stars from the Ca ii Infrared Triplet
in The Astrophysical Journal
Esposito M
(2022)
Weighing cosmic structures with clusters of galaxies and the intergalactic medium
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Cescutti G
(2022)
MINCE I. Presentation of the project and of the first year sample
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Ambrosch M
(2023)
The Gaia -ESO Survey: Chemical evolution of Mg and Al in the Milky Way with machine learning
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Fratta M
(2023)
Spectroscopic follow-up of a subset of the Gaia /IPHAS catalogue of Ha-excess sources
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Storm N
(2023)
Observational constraints on the origin of the elements - VII. NLTE analysis of Y ii lines in spectra of cool stars and implications for Y as a Galactic chemical clock
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Lombardo L
(2023)
The Pristine survey - XXI. Exploring the metal-poor boundary with ESPaDoNS
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Jin S
(2023)
The wide-field, multiplexed, spectroscopic facility WEAVE: Survey design, overview, and simulated implementation
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
De Burgos A
(2023)
The IACOB project IX. Building a modern empirical database of Galactic O9 - B9 supergiants: Sample selection, description, and completeness
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Bialek S
(2023)
StarUnLink: identifying and mitigating signals from communication satellites in stellar spectral surveys
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Weaver T
(2023)
Reconstructing Filaments around Galaxy Clusters from Spectroscopic Surveys using Machine Learning
in Research Notes of the AAS
Williger G
(2023)
James Robert Lewis (1959-2019)
in Bulletin of the AAS
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
Kordopatis G
(2023)
Automatic line selection for abundance determinations in large stellar spectroscopic surveys
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Iovino A
(2023)
WEAVE-StePS: A stellar population survey using WEAVE at WHT
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Ditrani F
(2023)
Stellar metallicity from optical and UV spectral indices: Test case for WEAVE-StePS
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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
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
| 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 |