Planning the WHT future: the WEAVE wide-field massive-multiplex spectrograph

Authors
Dr.
Marc Balcells
Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes
Date and time
12 Sep 2011 - 00:00 Europe/London
Address

Aula

Talk language
English
Slides language
English
Serie number
1
Description

The vision for the use of the WHT in the coming decade is taking shape.   A key element is the construction and deployment of WEAVE, a wide-field massive-multiplex spectrograph.  With 1000 fibres and spectral resolutions of 5000 and 20000, the opportunities for discovery are tremendous.  Three key fields will be: Milky-Way and Local Group archaeology linked to the   Gaia mission; cosmology redshift surveys; and galaxy evolution studies linked to photometric surveys such as VISTA, UKIDSS, LOFAR, EUCLID, and  others. IAC has the opportunity to get involved in this important instrument for ORM from the beginning.

Format
Seminar
Talk Video
https://youtu.be/rgHpNV6ziys
Stellar kinematics
Galaxy evolution
Dark energy

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