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
Pancino E
(2017)
The Gaia -ESO Survey: Calibration strategy
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Ted Mackereth J
(2017)
The age-metallicity structure of the Milky Way disc using APOGEE
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Figueras F
(2017)
Outskirts of Galaxies
Kushniruk I
(2017)
Kinematic structures of the solar neighbourhood revealed by Gaia DR1/TGAS and RAVE
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Jofré P
(2017)
Gaia FGK benchmark stars: opening the black box of stellar element abundance determination
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Burden A
(2017)
Mitigating the impact of the DESI fiber assignment on galaxy clustering
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
González-Morales A
(2017)
Unbiased constraints on ultralight axion mass from dwarf spheroidal galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Ting Y
(2017)
Measuring 14 Elemental Abundances with R = 1800 LAMOST Spectra
in The Astrophysical Journal
Pato M
(2017)
galkin: A new compilation of Milky Way rotation curve data
in SoftwareX
Monreal-Ibero A
(2017)
Measuring diffuse interstellar bands with cool stars Improved line lists to model background stellar spectra?
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Peñarrubia J
(2017)
Stellar envelopes of globular clusters embedded in dark mini-haloes
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Catalán-Torrecilla C
(2017)
Star Formation in the Local Universe from the CALIFA Sample. II. Activation and Quenching Mechanisms in Bulges, Bars, and Disks
in The Astrophysical Journal
Thygesen A
(2017)
An Investigation of the Formation and Line Properties of MgH in 3D Hydrodynamical Model Stellar Atmospheres
in The Astrophysical Journal
Du Mas Des Bourboux H
(2017)
Baryon acoustic oscillations from the complete SDSS-III Ly a -quasar cross-correlation function at z = 2.4
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Ting Y
(2017)
Prospects for Measuring Abundances of >20 Elements with Low-resolution Stellar Spectra
in The Astrophysical Journal
Griv E
(2017)
The Spiral Arm Segments of the Galaxy within 3 kpc from the Sun: A Statistical Approach
in The Astrophysical Journal
Breedt E
(2017)
Using large spectroscopic surveys to test the double degenerate model for Type Ia supernovae
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Crnojevic D
(2017)
Outskirts of Galaxies
Majewski S
(2017)
The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE)
in The Astronomical Journal
Traven G
(2017)
The Galah Survey: Classification and Diagnostics with t-SNE Reduction of Spectral Information
in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Erkal D
(2017)
A sharper view of Pal 5's tails: discovery of stream perturbations with a novel non-parametric technique
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Antoja T
(2017)
Asymmetric metallicity patterns in the stellar velocity space with RAVE
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Hansen C
(2017)
Something borrowed, something blue: The nature of blue metal-poor stars inferred from their colours and chemical abundances
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Shimwell T
(2017)
The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey I. Survey description and preliminary data release?
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Sesar B
(2017)
Machine-learned Identification of RR Lyrae Stars from Sparse, Multi-band Data: The PS1 Sample
in The Astronomical Journal
| 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 |