Integration and early testing of WEAVE: the next-generation spectroscopy facility for the William Herschel Telescope
We present an update on the overall integration progress of the WEAVE next-generation spectroscopy facility for the William Herschel Telescope (WHT), now scheduled for first light in early-2021, with almost all components now arrived at the observatory. We also present a summary of the current plann...
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Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers
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| author | Dalton, G Trager, S Abrams, DC Lewis, I Jin, S Molaeinezhad, A Schallig, E Hughes, S Brock, M Terrett, D |
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| description | We present an update on the overall integration progress of the WEAVE next-generation spectroscopy facility for the William Herschel Telescope (WHT), now scheduled for first light in early-2021, with almost all components now arrived at the observatory. We also present a summary of the current planning behind the 5-year initial phase of survey operations, and some detailed end-to-end science simulations that have been implemented to evaluate the final on-sky performance after data processing. 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 mini 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. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:fdb4773c-201a-42fb-a4a5-ed967808cde82022-03-27T13:31:01ZIntegration and early testing of WEAVE: the next-generation spectroscopy facility for the William Herschel TelescopeJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:fdb4773c-201a-42fb-a4a5-ed967808cde8EnglishSymplectic ElementsSociety of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers2020Dalton, GTrager, SAbrams, DCLewis, IJin, SMolaeinezhad, ASchallig, EHughes, SBrock, MTerrett, DWe present an update on the overall integration progress of the WEAVE next-generation spectroscopy facility for the William Herschel Telescope (WHT), now scheduled for first light in early-2021, with almost all components now arrived at the observatory. We also present a summary of the current planning behind the 5-year initial phase of survey operations, and some detailed end-to-end science simulations that have been implemented to evaluate the final on-sky performance after data processing. 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 mini 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. |
| spellingShingle | Dalton, G Trager, S Abrams, DC Lewis, I Jin, S Molaeinezhad, A Schallig, E Hughes, S Brock, M Terrett, D Integration and early testing of WEAVE: the next-generation spectroscopy facility for the William Herschel Telescope |
| title | Integration and early testing of WEAVE: the next-generation spectroscopy facility for the William Herschel Telescope |
| title_full | Integration and early testing of WEAVE: the next-generation spectroscopy facility for the William Herschel Telescope |
| title_fullStr | Integration and early testing of WEAVE: the next-generation spectroscopy facility for the William Herschel Telescope |
| title_full_unstemmed | Integration and early testing of WEAVE: the next-generation spectroscopy facility for the William Herschel Telescope |
| title_short | Integration and early testing of WEAVE: the next-generation spectroscopy facility for the William Herschel Telescope |
| title_sort | integration and early testing of weave the next generation spectroscopy facility for the william herschel telescope |
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