WEAVE Detectors Interim
Lead Research Organisation:
Liverpool John Moores University
Department Name: Astrophysics Research Institute
Abstract
Start detector procurement for WEAVE
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 a 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
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
Osorio Y
(2022)
Accurate Metallicities for Very Metal-poor Stars from the Ca ii Infrared Triplet
in The Astrophysical Journal
Sinigaglia F
(2022)
Mapping the Three-dimensional Lya Forest Large-scale Structure in Real and Redshift Space*
in The Astrophysical Journal
Cescutti G
(2022)
MINCE I. Presentation of the project and of the first year sample
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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
Hughes S
(2022)
Calibration at elevation of the WEAVE fibre positioner
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
Esposito M
(2022)
Weighing cosmic structures with clusters of galaxies and the intergalactic medium
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
Tortora C
(2022)
The Central Dark Matter Fraction of Massive Early-Type Galaxies
in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
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
Hughes S
(2022)
Optimisation of the WEAVE target assignment algorithm
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
Khoperskov S
(2020)
Hic sunt dracones: Cartography of the Milky Way spiral arms and bar resonances with Gaia Data Release 2
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Manser C
(2020)
The frequency of gaseous debris discs around white dwarfs
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
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
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
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
Zwitter T
(2020)
The GALAH survey: chemodynamics of the solar neighbourhood
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Duncan K
(2019)
The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey IV. First Data Release: Photometric redshifts and rest-frame magnitudes
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Williams W
(2019)
The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey III. First data release: Optical/infrared identifications and value-added catalogue
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Žerjal M
(2019)
The GALAH Survey: lithium-strong KM dwarfs
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Sharma S
(2019)
The K2-HERMES Survey: age and metallicity of the thick disc
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Laporte C
(2019)
Stellar disc streams as probes of the Galactic potential and satellite impacts
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Xiang M
(2019)
Abundance Estimates for 16 Elements in 6 Million Stars from LAMOST DR5 Low-Resolution Spectra
in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
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
Morrison S
(2019)
Probing inhomogeneity in the helium ionizing UV background
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gómez F
(2019)
Footprints of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy in the Gaia data set
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Marasco A
(2019)
HALOGAS: the properties of extraplanar HI in disc galaxies
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Vos J
(2019)
Gaia Data Release 2 catalogue of extremely low-mass white dwarf candidates
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Zavarygin E
(2019)
A search for cosmological anisotropy using the Lyman alpha forest from SDSS quasar spectra
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Ness M
(2019)
In the Galactic Disk, Stellar [Fe/H] and Age Predict Orbits and Precise [X/Fe]
in The Astrophysical Journal
Carrera R.
(2019)
Open clusters through the eyes of WEAVE
in Highlights on Spanish Astrophysics X
Hardcastle M
(2019)
Radio-loud AGN in the first LoTSS data release The lifetimes and environmental impact of jet-driven sources
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Croston J
(2019)
The environments of radio-loud AGN from the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey (LoTSS)
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Koppelman H
(2019)
Multiple retrograde substructures in the Galactic halo: A shattered view of Galactic history
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Hale C
(2019)
LOFAR observations of the XMM-LSS field
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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
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
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
Tabernero H
(2019)
STEPAR: an automatic code to infer stellar atmospheric parameters
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Conroy C
(2019)
Mapping the Stellar Halo with the H3 Spectroscopic Survey
in The Astrophysical Journal
Minchev I
(2019)
Yule-Simpson's paradox in Galactic Archaeology
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Belokurov V
(2019)
Gaia's living and breathing Galaxy
in Nature Reviews Physics
Padilla C
(2019)
The Physics of the Accelerating Universe Camera
in The Astronomical Journal
Bittner A
(2019)
The GIST pipeline: A multi-purpose tool for the analysis and visualisation of (integral-field) spectroscopic data
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Pittordis C
(2019)
Testing modified gravity with wide binaries in Gaia DR2
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
| Description | This is an interim grant to begin work on the development of detectors for the WEAVE spectrograph. The main element of this work is to come in the final work package now underway - this funding was used to develop the project to conceptual design and make a downpayment on array production. |
| Exploitation Route | Experiments with pseudo-dummy and dummy CCD outputs to reduce common read house. |
| Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) |
| Description | Collaboration with Isaac Newton Group |
| Organisation | Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING) |
| Country | Spain |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Joint development of detector systems |
| Collaborator Contribution | Expertise in operations and use |
| Impact | Development in ongoing, with completion of the new system due in 2018. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Collaboration with University of Oxford |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Scientific Expertise, Access to telescope time |
| Collaborator Contribution | Scientific Expertise, Financial Contribution |
| Impact | Collaboration on followup of LOFAR radio transients starting in early 2014. |
| Start Year | 2014 |