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
Casamiquela L
(2019)
OCCASO - III. Iron peak and a elements of 18 open clusters. Comparison with chemical evolution models and field stars
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Harris A
(2018)
A and F stars as probes of outer Galactic disc kinematics
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Mateu C
(2017)
Predictions for the detection of tidal streams with Gaia using great-circle methods
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Laporte C
(2019)
Stellar disc streams as probes of the Galactic potential and satellite impacts
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Rosslowe C
(2017)
A deep near-infrared spectroscopic survey of the Scutum-Crux arm for Wolf-Rayet stars?
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Kalfountzou E
(2017)
Observational evidence that positive and negative AGN feedback depends on galaxy mass and jet power
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
Minchev I
(2019)
Yule-Simpson's paradox in Galactic Archaeology
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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
Debattista V
(2017)
Separation of stellar populations by an evolving bar: implications for the bulge of the Milky Way
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
Duncan K
(2018)
Photometric redshifts for the next generation of deep radio continuum surveys - I. Template fitting
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Casares J
(2018)
Hibernating black holes revealed by photometric mass functions
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gürkan G
(2018)
LOFAR/H-ATLAS: the low-frequency radio luminosity-star formation rate relation
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Starkenburg E
(2017)
The Pristine survey - I. Mining the Galaxy for the most metal-poor stars
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Orenstein B
(2019)
The redshift distribution of infrared-faint radio sources
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Jofré P
(2017)
Climbing the cosmic ladder with stellar twins in RAVE with Gaia
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Harris A
(2019)
A study of full space motions of outer Galactic disc A and F stars in two deep pencil beams
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Leung H
(2018)
Deep learning of multi-element abundances from high-resolution spectroscopic data
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Lofthouse E
(2017)
Local analogues of high-redshift star-forming galaxies: integral field spectroscopy of green peas
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Das P
(2020)
seestar: Selection functions for spectroscopic surveys of the Milky Way
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gómez F
(2019)
Footprints of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy in the Gaia data set
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Childress M
(2017)
OzDES multifibre spectroscopy for the Dark Energy Survey: 3-yr results and first data release
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Bieth M
(2019)
The gravitational force field of the Galaxy measured from the kinematics of RR Lyrae in Gaia
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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
| 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 |