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
Li T
(2019)
The southern stellar stream spectroscopic survey (S5): Overview, target selection, data reduction, validation, and early science
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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
Lodieu N
(2019)
Metallicity, temperature, and gravity scales of M subdwarfs ,
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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
Lombardo L
(2023)
The Pristine survey - XXI. Exploring the metal-poor boundary with ESPaDoNS
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Mahatma V
(2019)
LoTSS DR1: Double-double radio galaxies in the HETDEX field
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Maiolino R
(2019)
De re metallica: the cosmic chemical evolution of galaxies
in The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review
Majewski S
(2017)
The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE)
in The Astronomical Journal
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
Manser C
(2020)
The frequency of gaseous debris discs around white dwarfs
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Marasco A
(2019)
HALOGAS: the properties of extraplanar HI in disc galaxies
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Mateu C
(2017)
Predictions for the detection of tidal streams with Gaia using great-circle methods
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Middleton K
(2018)
The polishing of WEAVE spectrograph collimator mirror
Middleton K
(2018)
Low-level control software for the WEAVE spectrograph
Middleton K
(2018)
Antireflective coatings for the red camera of WEAVE spectrograph
Miglio A
(2017)
PLATO as it is : A legacy mission for Galactic archaeology
in Astronomische Nachrichten
Miller J
(2019)
Searching for the shadows of giants: characterizing protoclusters with line of sight Lyman-a absorption
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
Mints A
(2019)
Ensemble age inversions for large spectroscopic surveys
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Monari G
(2019)
Signatures of the resonances of a large Galactic bar in local velocity space
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Monreal-Ibero A
(2017)
The Wolf-Rayet star population in the dwarf galaxy NGC 625
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Monreal-Ibero A
(2017)
Measuring diffuse interstellar bands with cool stars Improved line lists to model background stellar spectra?
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Mooney S
(2019)
Revisiting the Fanaroff-Riley dichotomy and radio-galaxy morphology with the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey (LoTSS)
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Morabito L
(2017)
Investigating the unification of LOFAR-detected powerful AGN in the Boötes field
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Morrison S
(2019)
Probing inhomogeneity in the helium ionizing UV background
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 |