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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Liu C
(2017)
Determination of robust metallicities for metal-rich red giant branch stars An application to the globular cluster NGC 6528???
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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Hale C
(2019)
LOFAR observations of the XMM-LSS field
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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Lodieu N
(2019)
Metallicity, temperature, and gravity scales of M subdwarfs ,
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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Sabater J
(2019)
The LoTSS view of radio AGN in the local Universe The most massive galaxies are always switched on
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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Kushniruk I
(2017)
Kinematic structures of the solar neighbourhood revealed by Gaia DR1/TGAS and RAVE
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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De Sainte Agathe V
(2019)
Baryon acoustic oscillations at z = 2.34 from the correlations of Ly a absorption in eBOSS DR14
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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Monreal-Ibero A
(2017)
The Wolf-Rayet star population in the dwarf galaxy NGC 625
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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Japelj J
(2019)
Simulating MOS science on the ELT: Ly a forest tomography
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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Jofré P
(2017)
Gaia FGK benchmark stars: opening the black box of stellar element abundance determination
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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Kushniruk I
(2019)
Disentangling the Arcturus stream
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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Williams W
(2019)
The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey III. First data release: Optical/infrared identifications and value-added catalogue
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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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
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Gürkan G
(2019)
LoTSS/HETDEX: Optical quasars I. Low-frequency radio properties of optically selected quasars
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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Caffau E
(2019)
Systematic investigation of chemical abundances derived using IR spectra obtained with GIANO
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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Hardcastle M
(2019)
Radio-loud AGN in the first LoTSS data release The lifetimes and environmental impact of jet-driven sources
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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Bittner A
(2019)
The GIST pipeline: A multi-purpose tool for the analysis and visualisation of (integral-field) spectroscopic data
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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Croston J
(2019)
The environments of radio-loud AGN from the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey (LoTSS)
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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Marasco A
(2019)
HALOGAS: the properties of extraplanar HI in disc galaxies
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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Hansen C
(2017)
Something borrowed, something blue: The nature of blue metal-poor stars inferred from their colours and chemical abundances
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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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
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Laverick M
(2019)
The Belgian repository of fundamental atomic data and stellar spectra (BRASS) II. Quality assessment of atomic data for unblended lines in FGK stars
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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Lagarde N
(2017)
Population synthesis to constrain Galactic and stellar physics I. Determining age and mass of thin-disc red-giant stars
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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Geier S
(2019)
The population of hot subdwarf stars studied with Gaia II. The Gaia DR2 catalogue of hot subluminous stars
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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Du Mas Des Bourboux H
(2017)
Baryon acoustic oscillations from the complete SDSS-III Ly a -quasar cross-correlation function at z = 2.4
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 |