WEAVE Detectors Main Grant
Lead Research Organisation:
Liverpool John Moores University
Department Name: Astrophysics Research Institute
Abstract
This grant is to produce 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 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
Bianchini P
(2019)
Exploring the Outskirts of Globular Clusters: The Peculiar Kinematics of NGC 3201
in The Astrophysical Journal
Terrett D
(2018)
First lab results of the WEAVE fibre positioner system
Gómez F
(2019)
Footprints of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy in the Gaia data set
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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
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
Walton N. A.
(2016)
Gaia and WEAVE/WxES: Supporting the PLATO Exoplanet Hunter
in Multi-Object Spectroscopy in the Next Decade: Big Questions, Large Surveys, and Wide Fields
Vos J
(2019)
Gaia Data Release 2 catalogue of extremely low-mass white dwarf candidates
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Belokurov V
(2019)
Gaia's living and breathing Galaxy
in Nature Reviews Physics
Walton Nicholas
(2015)
Gaia, PLATO and WEAVE: A Powerful combination for Exoplanet Characterisation
in AAS/Division for Extreme Solar Systems Abstracts
Marasco A
(2019)
HALOGAS: the properties of extraplanar HI in disc galaxies
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Khoperskov S
(2020)
Hic sunt dracones: Cartography of the Milky Way spiral arms and bar resonances with Gaia Data Release 2
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Garavito-Camargo N
(2019)
Hunting for the Dark Matter Wake Induced by the Large Magellanic Cloud
in The Astrophysical Journal
Haines T
(2019)
Implications of a Time-varying Galactic Potential for Determinations of the Dynamical Surface Density
in The Astrophysical Journal
Ness M
(2019)
In the Galactic Disk, Stellar [Fe/H] and Age Predict Orbits and Precise [X/Fe]
in The Astrophysical Journal
Cenarro A
(2019)
J-PLUS: The Javalambre Photometric Local Universe Survey
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Schultheis Mathias
(2016)
Large surveys of Galactic populations with the new WEAVE faciligy
in Galactic Surveys: New Results on Formation, Evolution, Structure and Chemical Evolution of the Milky Way
Hale C
(2019)
LOFAR observations of the XMM-LSS field
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Mahatma V
(2019)
LoTSS DR1: Double-double radio galaxies in the HETDEX field
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Gürkan G
(2019)
LoTSS/HETDEX: Optical quasars I. Low-frequency radio properties of optically selected quasars
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Middleton K
(2018)
Low-level control software for the WEAVE spectrograph
Conroy C
(2019)
Mapping the Stellar Halo with the H3 Spectroscopic Survey
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
Lodieu N
(2019)
Metallicity, temperature, and gravity scales of M subdwarfs ,
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Cescutti G
(2022)
MINCE I. Presentation of the project and of the first year sample
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
| Description | The WEAVE detector system was successfully built to specification and is now in use at the WHT. |
| Exploitation Route | Science exploitation |
| Sectors | Other |
| URL | https://www.ing.iac.es/astronomy/instruments/weave/weaveinst.html |
| 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 |