Bibcode
Benn, Chris; Verheijen, Marc; Brock, Matthew; Terrett, David; Pragt, Johannes; Middleton, Kevin; Tosh, Ian; Rousset, Sophie; Agocs, Tibor; Dee, Kevin; Navarro, Ramon; Lewis, Ian; Evans, Chris; MacIntosh, Mike; Bonifacio, Piercarlo; Aguerri, J. Alfonso L.; Trager, Scott C.; Abrams, Don Carlos; Carter, David; Stuik, Remko; Gerlofsma, Gerrit; Jagourel, Pascal; Irwin, Michael J.; Walton, Nic; Guinouard, Isabelle; Delgado, Jose Miguel; Rodriguez, L. F.; Rey, Jürg; Gribbin, Francis J.; Bates, Stuart; Mottram, Chris; Steele, Iain; Bevil, Craige; Cano Infantes, Diego; Dalton, Gavin; Roelfsma, Ronald; Skillen, Ian; Ridings, Andy; Balcells, Marc; Daban, Jean-Baptiste; Gouvret, Carole; Venema, Lars; Girard, Paul
Referencia bibliográfica
Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 8446, id. 84460P-84460P-12 (2012).
Fecha de publicación:
9
2012
Número de citas
178
Número de citas referidas
142
Descripción
We present the preliminary design of the WEAVE next generation
spectroscopy facility for the William Herschel Telescope (WHT),
principally targeting optical ground-based follow up of upcoming
ground-based (LOFAR) and spacebased (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 or up to 30 integral field
units for each observation. The fibres are fed to a single spectrograph,
with a pair of 8k(spectral) x 6k (spatial) pixel cameras, 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.