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
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
Middleton K
(2018)
Low-level control software for the WEAVE spectrograph
Middleton K
(2018)
Antireflective coatings for the red camera of WEAVE spectrograph
Middleton K
(2018)
The polishing of WEAVE spectrograph collimator mirror
Marasco A
(2019)
HALOGAS: the properties of extraplanar HI in disc galaxies
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Manser C
(2020)
The frequency of gaseous debris discs around white dwarfs
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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
Maiolino R
(2019)
De re metallica: the cosmic chemical evolution of galaxies
in The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review
Mahatma V
(2019)
LoTSS DR1: Double-double radio galaxies in the HETDEX field
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Lodieu N
(2019)
Metallicity, temperature, and gravity scales of M subdwarfs ,
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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
Lewis J.
(2019)
The WEAVE Core Processing System at CASU
in Highlights on Spanish Astrophysics X
Leung H
(2018)
Deep learning of multi-element abundances from high-resolution spectroscopic data
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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
Laporte C
(2019)
Stellar disc streams as probes of the Galactic potential and satellite impacts
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Kushniruk I
(2019)
Disentangling the Arcturus stream
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
Koppelman H
(2019)
Multiple retrograde substructures in the Galactic halo: A shattered view of Galactic history
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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
Khoperskov S
(2020)
Hic sunt dracones: Cartography of the Milky Way spiral arms and bar resonances with Gaia Data Release 2
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Jofré P
(2019)
Accuracy and Precision of Industrial Stellar Abundances
in Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Japelj J
(2019)
Simulating MOS science on the ELT: Ly a forest tomography
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Hughes S
(2022)
Calibration at elevation of the WEAVE fibre positioner
Hughes S
(2022)
Optimisation of the WEAVE target assignment algorithm
Howes L
(2019)
Estimating stellar ages and metallicities from parallaxes and broadband photometry: successes and shortcomings
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Harris A
(2019)
A study of full space motions of outer Galactic disc A and F stars in two deep pencil beams
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Hardcastle M
(2019)
Radio-loud AGN in the first LoTSS data release The lifetimes and environmental impact of jet-driven sources
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Ham S. J.
(2016)
Towards an Integrated Model of the WEAVE Performance
in Multi-Object Spectroscopy in the Next Decade: Big Questions, Large Surveys, and Wide Fields
Hale C
(2019)
LOFAR observations of the XMM-LSS field
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Haines T
(2019)
Implications of a Time-varying Galactic Potential for Determinations of the Dynamical Surface Density
in The Astrophysical Journal
Gürkan G
(2019)
LoTSS/HETDEX: Optical quasars I. Low-frequency radio properties of optically selected quasars
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Gómez F
(2019)
Footprints of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy in the Gaia data set
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gilbert James
(2015)
Verification of commercial motor performance for WEAVE at the William Herschel Telescope
in arXiv e-prints
Gilbert J.
(2016)
Verification of Commercial Motor Performance for WEAVE at the William Herschel Telescope
in Multi-Object Spectroscopy in the Next Decade: Big Questions, Large Surveys, and Wide Fields
Gentile Fusillo N
(2019)
A Gaia Data Release 2 catalogue of white dwarfs and a comparison with SDSS
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Geier S
(2019)
The population of hot subdwarf stars studied with Gaia II. The Gaia DR2 catalogue of hot subluminous stars
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Garavito-Camargo N
(2019)
Hunting for the Dark Matter Wake Induced by the Large Magellanic Cloud
in The Astrophysical Journal
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
Fariña C
(2018)
Design of the observation queue scheduler for WEAVE on the WHT
Famaey B.
(2016)
The WEAVE disk dynamics survey
in SF2A-2016: Proceedings of the Annual meeting of the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Esposito M
(2022)
Weighing cosmic structures with clusters of galaxies and the intergalactic medium
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
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
Das P
(2020)
seestar: Selection functions for spectroscopic surveys of the Milky Way
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Dalton G.
(2016)
WEAVE: The Next Generation Spectroscopy Facility for the WHT
in Multi-Object Spectroscopy in the Next Decade: Big Questions, Large Surveys, and Wide Fields
Croston J
(2019)
The environments of radio-loud AGN from the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey (LoTSS)
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Costantin L
(2019)
A few StePS forward in unveiling the complexity of galaxy evolution: light-weighted stellar ages of intermediate-redshift galaxies with WEAVE
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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
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 |