Bibcode
Dalton, G.; Trager, Scott; Abrams, Don Carlos; Bonifacio, Piercarlo; Aguerri, J. A. L.; Middleton, Kevin; Benn, Chris; Dee, Kevin; Sayède, Frédéric; Lewis, Ian; Pragt, Johannes; Pico, Sergio; Walton, Nic; Rey, Jeurg; Allende Prieto, C.; Peñate, J.; Lhome, Emilie; Agócs, Tibor; Alonso, J.; 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, L. F.; Gribbin, Frank; Delgado, J. M.; Herreros, J. M.; 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, C.; ter Horst, Rik; Molinari, Emilio; Lodi, Marcello; Guerra, José; Martin, Adrian; Vallenari, Antonella; Salasnich, Bernardo; Baruffolo, Andrea; Jin, Shoko; Hill, Vanessa; Smith, Dan; Drew, Janet; Poggianti, Bianca; Pieri, Mat; Dominquez Palmero, Lillian; Farina, C.
Bibliographical reference
Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 9908, id. 99081G 10 pp. (2016).
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2016
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38
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32
Description
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.