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

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González-Morales A (2017) Unbiased constraints on ultralight axion mass from dwarf spheroidal galaxies in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Williams W (2018) LOFAR-Boötes: properties of high- and low-excitation radio galaxies at 0.5 < z < 2.0 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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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

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Burden A (2017) Mitigating the impact of the DESI fiber assignment on galaxy clustering in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

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Chabanier S (2019) The one-dimensional power spectrum from the SDSS DR14 Lya forests in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

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Peralta De Arriba L. (2019) The WEAVE Quick-Look GUI in Highlights on Spanish Astrophysics X

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Lewis J. (2019) The WEAVE Core Processing System at CASU in Highlights on Spanish Astrophysics X

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Carrera R. (2019) Open clusters through the eyes of WEAVE in Highlights on Spanish Astrophysics X

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Tortora C (2022) The Central Dark Matter Fraction of Massive Early-Type Galaxies in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

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Williger G (2023) James Robert Lewis (1959-2019) in Bulletin of the AAS

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Mahatma V (2019) LoTSS DR1: Double-double radio galaxies in the HETDEX field in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Kushniruk I (2019) Disentangling the Arcturus stream in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Iovino A (2023) WEAVE-StePS: A stellar population survey using WEAVE at WHT in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Marasco A (2019) HALOGAS: the properties of extraplanar HI in disc galaxies in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Tabernero H (2019) STEPAR: an automatic code to infer stellar atmospheric parameters 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