Final design and progress of WEAVE: the next generation wide-field spectroscopy facility for the William Herschel Telescope
Date Issued
2016
Author(s)
Dalton, Gavin
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Trager, Scott
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Abrams, Don Carlos
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Aguerri, J. Alfonso L.
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Middleton, Kevin
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Benn, Chris
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Dee, Kevin
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Sayède, Frédéric
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Lewis, Ian
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Pragt, Johannes
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Pico, Sergio
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Walton, Nic
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Rey, Jeurg
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Allende Prieto, Carlos
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Peñate, José
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Lhome, Emilie
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Agócs, Tibor
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Alonso, José
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Terrett, David
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Brock, Matthew
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Gilbert, James
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Schallig, Ellen
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Ridings, Andy
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Guinouard, Isabelle
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Verheijen, Marc
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Tosh, Ian
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Rogers, Kevin
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Lee, Martin
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Steele, Iain
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Stuik, Remko
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Tromp, Niels
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Jaskó, Attila
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Carrasco, Esperanza
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Farcas, Szigfrid
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Kragt, Jan
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Lesman, Dirk
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Kroes, Gabby
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Mottram, Chris
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Bates, Stuart
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Rodriguez, Luis Fernando
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Gribbin, Frank
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Delgado, José Miguel
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Herreros, José Miguel
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Martin, Carlos
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Cano, Diego
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Navarro, Ramon
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Irwin, Mike
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Lewis, Jim
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Gonzalez Solares, Eduardo
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Murphy, David
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Worley, Clare
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Bassom, Richard
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O'Mahoney, Neil
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Zurita, Christina
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ter Horst, Rik
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Guerra, José
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Martin, Adrian
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Jin, Shoko
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Hill, Vanessa
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Smith, Dan
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Drew, Janet
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Pieri, Mat
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Dominquez Palmero, Lillian
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Farina, Cecilia
Abstract
We present the Final Design of the WEAVE next-generation spectroscopy facility for the William Herschel Telescope (WHT), together with a status update on the details of manufacturing, integration and the overall project schedule now that all the major fabrication contracts are in place. We also present a summary of the current planning behind the 5-year initial phase of survey operations. WEAVE will provide optical ground-based follow up of ground-based (LOFAR) and space-based (Gaia) surveys. WEAVE is a multi-object and multi-IFU facility utilizing a new 2-degree prime focus field of view at the WHT, with a buffered pick-and-place positioner system hosting 1000 multi-object (MOS) fibres, 20 integral field units, or a single large IFU for each observation. The fibres are fed to a single (dual-beam) spectrograph, with total of 16k spectral pixels, located within the WHT GHRIL enclosure on the telescope Nasmyth platform, supporting observations at R 5000 over the full 370-1000nm wavelength range in a single exposure, or a high resolution mode with limited coverage in each arm at R 20000. The project is now in the manufacturing and integration phase with first light expected for early of 2018.
Coverage
Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI
All editors
Evans, Christopher J.; Simard, Luc; Takami, Hideki
Series
Volume
9908
Start page
99081G-1
Conferenece
Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI
Conferenece place
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Conferenece date
26 June - 1 July 2016
Issn Identifier
0277-786X
Ads BibCode
2016SPIE.9908E..1GD
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open.access
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