The wide-field, multiplexed, spectroscopic facility WEAVE: Survey design, overview, and simulated implementation
Date Issued
2024
Author(s)
Jin, Shoko
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Trager, Scott C.
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Dalton, Gavin B.
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Aguerri, J. Alfonso L.
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Drew, J. E.
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Falcón-Barroso, Jesús
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Gänsicke, Boris T.
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Hill, Vanessa
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Pieri, Matthew M.
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Smith, D. J. B.
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Abrams, Don Carlos
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Aguado, David S.
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Antoja, Teresa
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Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso
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Ascasibar, Yago
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Babusiaux, Carine
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Balcells, Marc
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Barrena, R.
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Battaglia, Giuseppina
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Belokurov, Vasily
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Bensby, Thomas
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Carrasco, Esperanza
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Carrera, Ricardo
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Cornwell, Daniel J.
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Domínguez-Palmero, Lilian
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Duncan, Kenneth J.
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Famaey, Benoit
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Fariña, Cecilia
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Gonzalez, Oscar A.
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Guest, Steve
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Hatch, Nina A.
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Hess, Kelley M.
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Hoskin, Matthew J.
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Irwin, Mike
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Knapen, Johan H.
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Koposov, Sergey E.
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Kuchner, Ulrike
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Laigle, Clotilde
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Lewis, Jim
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Méndez-Abreu, Jairo
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Molaeinezhad, Alireza
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Monguió, Maria
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Morrison, Sean
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Murphy, David N. A.
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Peralta de Arriba, Luis
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Pérez, Isabel
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Pérez-Ràfols, Ignasi
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Picó, Sergio
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Raddi, Roberto
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Romero-Gómez, Mercè
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Royer, Frédéric
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Siebert, Arnaud
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Seabroke, George M.
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Som, Debopam
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Terrett, David
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Thomas, Guillaume
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Wesson, Roger
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Worley, C. Clare
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Alfaro, Emilio J.
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Allende Prieto, Carlos
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Amos, Nicholas J.
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Ashley, Richard P.
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Balaguer-Núñez, Lola
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Balbinot, Eduardo
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Benn, Chris R.
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Berlanas, Sara R.
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Bernard, Edouard J.
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Best, Philip
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Bishop, Georgia
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Blomqvist, Michael
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Bosma, Albert
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Britavskiy, Nikolay
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Busarello, Gianni
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Caffau, Elisabetta
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Cantat-Gaudin, Tristan
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Castro-Ginard, Alfred
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Couto, Guilherme
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Carbajo-Hijarrubia, Juan
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Carter, David
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Casamiquela, Laia
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Conrado, Ana M.
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Corcho-Caballero, Pablo
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COSTANTIN, LUCA
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Deason, Alis
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de Burgos, Abel
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Di Matteo, Paola
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Domínguez-Gómez, Jesús
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Dorda, Ricardo
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Drake, Alyssa
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Dutta, Rajeshwari
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Erkal, Denis
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Feltzing, Sofia
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Ferré-Mateu, Anna
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Feuillet, Diane
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Figueras, Francesca
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Fossati, Matteo
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García-Benito, Rubén
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Gentile Fusillo, Nicola
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Gebran, Marwan
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Gilbert, James
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Gledhill, T. M.
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González Delgado, Rosa M.
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Greimel, Robert
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Haines, Christopher P.
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Hardcastle, Martin J.
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Harris, Amy
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Haywood, Misha
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Helmi, Amina
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Hernandez, Nauzet
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Herrero, Artemio
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Hughes, Sarah
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Iršič, Vid
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Jablonka, Pascale
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Jarvis, Matt J.
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Jordi, Carme
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Kondapally, Rohit
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Kordopatis, Georges
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Krogager, Jens-Kristian
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Lam, Man I.
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Larsen, Søren S.
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Lemasle, Bertrand
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Lewis, Ian J.
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Lhomé, Emilie
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Lind, Karin
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Longobardi, Alessia
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Lonoce, Ilaria
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Maíz Apellániz, Jesús
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Marchal, Olivier
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Marco, Amparo
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Martin, Nicolas F.
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Matsuno, Tadafumi
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Maurogordato, Sophie
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Miralda-Escudé, Jordi
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Monari, Giacomo
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Mottram, Christopher J.
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Naylor, Tim
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Negueruela, Ignacio
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Oñorbe, Jose
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Peirani, Sébastien
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Peletier, Reynier F.
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Ramos, Pau
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Rossi, Elena Maria
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Röttgering, Huub J. A.
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Rubiño-Martín, Jose Alberto
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Sabater, Jose
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San Juan, José
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Schallig, Ellen
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Schiavon, Ricardo P.
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Schultheis, Mathias
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Shimwell, Timothy W.
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Simón-Díaz, Sergio
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Smith, Russell J.
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Sorini, Daniele
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Soubiran, Caroline
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Starkenburg, Else
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Steele, Iain A.
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Stott, John
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Stuik, Remko
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Tolstoy, Eline
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van Weeren, Reinout J.
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Verheijen, Marc A. W.
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Verro, Kristiina
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Vink, Jorick S.
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Vioque, Miguel
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Walcher, C. Jakob
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Walton, Nicholas A.
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Wegg, Christopher
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Weijmans, Anne-Marie
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Williams, Wendy L.
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Wilson, Andrew J.
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Wright, Nicholas J.
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Xylakis-Dornbusch, Theodora
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Youakim, Kris
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Zurita, Cristina
Abstract
WEAVE, the new wide-field, massively multiplexed spectroscopic survey facility for the William Herschel Telescope, saw first light in late 2022. WEAVE comprises a new 2-deg field-of-view prime-focus corrector system, a nearly 1000-multiplex fibre positioner, 20 individually deployable 'mini' integral field units (IFUs), and a single large IFU. These fibre systems feed a dual-beam spectrograph covering the wavelength range 366-959 nm at R ~ 5000, or two shorter ranges at $R\sim 20\, 000$. After summarizing the design and implementation of WEAVE and its data systems, we present the organization, science drivers, and design of a five- to seven-year programme of eight individual surveys to: (i) study our Galaxy's origins by completing Gaia's phase-space information, providing metallicities to its limiting magnitude for ~3 million stars and detailed abundances for ~1.5 million brighter field and open-cluster stars; (ii) survey ~0.4 million Galactic-plane OBA stars, young stellar objects, and nearby gas to understand the evolution of young stars and their environments; (iii) perform an extensive spectral survey of white dwarfs; (iv) survey ~400 neutral-hydrogen-selected galaxies with the IFUs; (v) study properties and kinematics of stellar populations and ionized gas in z < 0.5 cluster galaxies; (vi) survey stellar populations and kinematics in ${\sim} 25\, 000$ field galaxies at 0.3 ≲ z ≲ 0.7; (vii) study the cosmic evolution of accretion and star formation using >1 million spectra of LOFAR-selected radio sources; and (viii) trace structures using intergalactic/circumgalactic gas at z > 2. Finally, we describe the WEAVE Operational Rehearsals using the WEAVE Simulator.
Volume
530
Issue
3
Start page
2688
Issn Identifier
0035-8711
Ads BibCode
2024MNRAS.530.2688J
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open.access
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