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
Johnston K
(2017)
Disk Heating, Galactoseismology, and the Formation of Stellar Halos
in Galaxies
Bosma A
(2017)
Outskirts of Galaxies
Miglio A
(2017)
PLATO as it is : A legacy mission for Galactic archaeology
in Astronomische Nachrichten
Simpson J
(2017)
Siriusly, a newly identified intermediate-age Milky Way stellar cluster: a spectroscopic study of Gaia 1
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Thévenin F
(2017)
Modern Geometric Methods of Distance Determination
in Space Science Reviews
Simpson C
(2017)
Extragalactic radio surveys in the pre-Square Kilometre Array era.
in Royal Society open science
Schönrich R
(2017)
Assessing distances and consistency of kinematics in Gaia/TGAS
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Youakim K
(2017)
The Pristine survey - III. Spectroscopic confirmation of an efficient search for extremely metal-poor stars
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gonzalez-Perez V
(2017)
The host dark matter haloes of [O II] emitters at 0.5 < z < 1.5
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Jean-Baptiste I
(2017)
On the kinematic detection of accreted streams in the Gaia era: a cautionary tale
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
| 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 |