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
Zwitter T
(2020)
The GALAH survey: chemodynamics of the solar neighbourhood
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Nepal S
(2023)
The Gaia -ESO Survey: Preparing the ground for 4MOST and WEAVE galactic surveys Chemical evolution of lithium with machine learning
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Ambrosch M
(2023)
The Gaia -ESO Survey: Chemical evolution of Mg and Al in the Milky Way with machine learning
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Pancino E
(2017)
The Gaia -ESO Survey: Calibration strategy
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Manser C
(2020)
The frequency of gaseous debris discs around white dwarfs
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
De Boer T
(2018)
The fall of the Northern Unicorn: tangential motions in the Galactic anticentre with SDSS and Gaia
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Mancera Piña P
(2019)
The evolution of ultra-diffuse galaxies in nearby galaxy clusters from the Kapteyn IAC WEAVE INT Clusters Survey
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Croston J
(2019)
The environments of radio-loud AGN from the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey (LoTSS)
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Widmark A
(2019)
The dynamical matter density in the solar neighbourhood inferred from Gaia DR1
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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
Tortora C
(2022)
The Central Dark Matter Fraction of Massive Early-Type Galaxies
in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
Laverick M
(2019)
The Belgian repository of fundamental atomic data and stellar spectra (BRASS) II. Quality assessment of atomic data for unblended lines in FGK stars
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Majewski S
(2017)
The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE)
in The Astronomical Journal
Ted Mackereth J
(2017)
The age-metallicity structure of the Milky Way disc using APOGEE
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Pittordis C
(2019)
Testing modified gravity with wide binaries in Gaia DR2
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Caffau E
(2019)
Systematic investigation of chemical abundances derived using IR spectra obtained with GIANO
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Tabernero H
(2019)
STEPAR: an automatic code to infer stellar atmospheric parameters
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Ditrani F
(2023)
Stellar metallicity from optical and UV spectral indices: Test case for WEAVE-StePS
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
Laporte C
(2019)
Stellar disc streams as probes of the Galactic potential and satellite impacts
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Bialek S
(2023)
StarUnLink: identifying and mitigating signals from communication satellites in stellar spectral surveys
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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
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
Bestenlehner J
(2024)
Spectroscopic analysis of hot, massive stars in large spectroscopic surveys with de-idealized models
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 | Scientific Exploitation of WEAVE |
Sectors | Other |
URL | https://www.ing.iac.es/astronomy/instruments/weave/weaveinst.html |