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

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Zwitter T (2020) The GALAH survey: chemodynamics of the solar neighbourhood in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Khoperskov S (2020) Hic sunt dracones: Cartography of the Milky Way spiral arms and bar resonances with Gaia Data Release 2 in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Dalton G (2020) Integration and early testing of WEAVE: the next-generation spectroscopy facility for the William Herschel Telescope

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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

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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

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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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Das P (2020) seestar: Selection functions for spectroscopic surveys of the Milky Way in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Manser C (2020) The frequency of gaseous debris discs around white dwarfs in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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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

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Hughes S (2022) Optimisation of the WEAVE target assignment algorithm

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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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Worley C (2022) Rehearsing the complex data flow of multi-object spectrograph survey projects

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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

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Cescutti G (2022) MINCE I. Presentation of the project and of the first year sample in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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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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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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Hughes S (2022) Calibration at elevation of the WEAVE fibre positioner

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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

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Tortora C (2022) The Central Dark Matter Fraction of Massive Early-Type Galaxies in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

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Esposito M (2022) Weighing cosmic structures with clusters of galaxies and the intergalactic medium in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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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

 
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