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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Thomas G
(2019)
Dwarfs or Giants? Stellar Metallicities and Distances from ugrizG Multiband Photometry
in The Astrophysical Journal
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Brauer K
(2019)
The Origin of r-process Enhanced Metal-poor Halo Stars In Now-destroyed Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxies
in The Astrophysical Journal
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Sinigaglia F
(2022)
Mapping the Three-dimensional Lya Forest Large-scale Structure in Real and Redshift Space*
in The Astrophysical Journal
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Amard L
(2020)
The Impact of Metallicity on the Evolution of the Rotation and Magnetic Activity of Sun-like Stars
in The Astrophysical Journal
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Shipp N
(2019)
Proper Motions of Stellar Streams Discovered in the Dark Energy Survey
in The Astrophysical Journal
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Ting ? Y
(2019)
The Payne: Self-consistent ab initio Fitting of Stellar Spectra
in The Astrophysical Journal
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Griv E
(2017)
The Spiral Arm Segments of the Galaxy within 3 kpc from the Sun: A Statistical Approach
in The Astrophysical Journal
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Haines T
(2019)
Implications of a Time-varying Galactic Potential for Determinations of the Dynamical Surface Density
in The Astrophysical Journal
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Conroy C
(2019)
Mapping the Stellar Halo with the H3 Spectroscopic Survey
in The Astrophysical Journal
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Domínguez-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
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Ness M
(2018)
Galactic Doppelgängers: The Chemical Similarity Among Field Stars and Among Stars with a Common Birth Origin
in The Astrophysical Journal
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Thygesen A
(2017)
An Investigation of the Formation and Line Properties of MgH in 3D Hydrodynamical Model Stellar Atmospheres
in The Astrophysical Journal
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Osorio Y
(2022)
Accurate Metallicities for Very Metal-poor Stars from the Ca ii Infrared Triplet
in The Astrophysical Journal
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Catalán-Torrecilla C
(2017)
Star Formation in the Local Universe from the CALIFA Sample. II. Activation and Quenching Mechanisms in Bulges, Bars, and Disks
in The Astrophysical Journal
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Garavito-Camargo N
(2019)
Hunting for the Dark Matter Wake Induced by the Large Magellanic Cloud
in The Astrophysical Journal
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Bianchini P
(2019)
Exploring the Outskirts of Globular Clusters: The Peculiar Kinematics of NGC 3201
in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
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Ting ?? Y
(2017)
Measuring 14 Elemental Abundances with R = 1800 LAMOST Spectra
in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
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Xiang M
(2019)
Abundance Estimates for 16 Elements in 6 Million Stars from LAMOST DR5 Low-Resolution Spectra
in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
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Yang ? M
(2018)
The LAMOST Complete Spectroscopic Survey of Pointing Area (LaCoSSPAr) in the Southern Galactic Cap. I. The Spectroscopic Redshift Catalog
in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
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Traven G
(2017)
The Galah Survey: Classification and Diagnostics with t-SNE Reduction of Spectral Information
in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
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Carrasco E
(2018)
The WEAVE observatory control system
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Casalta J
(2018)
The WEAVE prime focus correction: from design to integration
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Middleton K
(2018)
Antireflective coatings for the red camera of WEAVE spectrograph
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Crnojevic D
(2017)
Outskirts of Galaxies
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Terlevich R
(2018)
WEAVE spectrograph cameras: the polishing of the spherical lenses
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Zanutta A
(2018)
VPHGs for WEAVE: design, manufacturing and characterization
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Terrett D
(2018)
First lab results of the WEAVE fibre positioner system
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Hughes S
(2022)
Calibration at elevation of the WEAVE fibre positioner
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Middleton K
(2018)
Low-level control software for the WEAVE spectrograph
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Middleton K
(2018)
The polishing of WEAVE spectrograph collimator mirror
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Fariña C
(2018)
Design of the observation queue scheduler for WEAVE on the WHT
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Figueras F
(2017)
Outskirts of Galaxies
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Hughes S
(2022)
Optimisation of the WEAVE target assignment algorithm
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Bosma A
(2017)
Outskirts of Galaxies
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 |