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Title: | Final design and progress of WEAVE: the next generation wide-field spectroscopy facility for the William Herschel Telescope | Authors: | Dalton, Gavin Trager, Scott Abrams, Don Carlos BONIFACIO, PIERCARLO Aguerri, J. Alfonso L. Middleton, Kevin Benn, Chris Dee, Kevin Sayède, Frédéric Lewis, Ian Pragt, Johannes Pico, Sergio Walton, Nic Rey, Jeurg Allende Prieto, Carlos Peñate, José Lhome, Emilie Agócs, Tibor Alonso, José Terrett, David Brock, Matthew Gilbert, James Schallig, Ellen Ridings, Andy Guinouard, Isabelle Verheijen, Marc Tosh, Ian Rogers, Kevin Lee, Martin Steele, Iain Stuik, Remko Tromp, Niels Jaskó, Attila Carrasco, Esperanza Farcas, Szigfrid Kragt, Jan Lesman, Dirk Kroes, Gabby Mottram, Chris Bates, Stuart Rodriguez, Luis Fernando Gribbin, Frank Delgado, José Miguel Herreros, José Miguel Martin, Carlos Cano, Diego Navarro, Ramon Irwin, Mike Lewis, Jim Gonzalez Solares, Eduardo Murphy, David Worley, Clare Bassom, Richard O'Mahoney, Neil BIANCO, ANDREA Zurita, Christina ter Horst, Rik MOLINARI, Emilio Carlo Lodi, Marcello Guerra, José Martin, Adrian VALLENARI, Antonella SALASNICH, Bernardo BARUFFOLO, Andrea Jin, Shoko Hill, Vanessa Smith, Dan Drew, Janet POGGIANTI, Bianca Maria Pieri, Mat Dominquez Palmero, Lillian Farina, Cecilia |
Issue Date: | 2016 | Volume: | Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI | Editors: | Evans, Christopher J.; Simard, Luc; Takami, Hideki | Series: | PROCEEDINGS OF SPIE | Number: | 9908 | First Page: | 99081G-1 | 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. | Conference Name: | Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI | Conference Place: | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | Conference Date: | 26 June - 1 July 2016 | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/25320 | URL: | https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/9908/99081G/Final-design-and-progress-of-WEAVE--the-next-generation/10.1117/12.2231078.full | ISSN: | 0277-786X | ISBN: | 9781510601956 | DOI: | 10.1117/12.2231078 | Bibcode ADS: | 2016SPIE.9908E..1GD | Fulltext: | open |
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