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
Maiolino R
(2019)
De re metallica: the cosmic chemical evolution of galaxies
in The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review
Leung H
(2018)
Deep learning of multi-element abundances from high-resolution spectroscopic data
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Fariña C
(2018)
Design of the observation queue scheduler for WEAVE on the WHT
Liu C
(2017)
Determination of robust metallicities for metal-rich red giant branch stars An application to the globular cluster NGC 6528???
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
Kushniruk I
(2019)
Disentangling the Arcturus stream
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Johnston K
(2017)
Disk Heating, Galactoseismology, and the Formation of Stellar Halos
in Galaxies
Thomas G
(2019)
Dwarfs or Giants? Stellar Metallicities and Distances from ugrizG Multiband Photometry
in The Astrophysical Journal
Mints A
(2019)
Ensemble age inversions for large spectroscopic surveys
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Howes L
(2019)
Estimating stellar ages and metallicities from parallaxes and broadband photometry: successes and shortcomings
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Oliva E
(2019)
Experimental characterization of modal noise in multimode fibers for astronomical spectrometers
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Silk J
(2019)
Exploring a new definition of the green valley and its implications
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Bianchini P
(2019)
Exploring the Outskirts of Globular Clusters: The Peculiar Kinematics of NGC 3201
in The Astrophysical Journal
Simpson C
(2017)
Extragalactic radio surveys in the pre-Square Kilometre Array era.
in Royal Society open science
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
Ichikawa K
(2017)
Foreground effect on the J-factor estimation of classical dwarf spheroidal galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Vos J
(2019)
Gaia Data Release 2 catalogue of extremely low-mass white dwarf candidates
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Jofré P
(2017)
Gaia FGK benchmark stars: opening the black box of stellar element abundance determination
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Belokurov V
(2019)
Gaia's living and breathing Galaxy
in Nature Reviews Physics
Ness M
(2018)
Galactic Doppelgängers: The Chemical Similarity Among Field Stars and Among Stars with a Common Birth Origin
in The Astrophysical Journal
Freeman K
(2017)
Galaxies, Globular Clusters, and Dark Matter
in Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Pato M
(2017)
galkin: A new compilation of Milky Way rotation curve data
in SoftwareX
| 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 |