Bibcode
Sayède, F.; Guinouard, Isabelle; Fasola, Gilles; Lhome, Emilie; Amans, Jean-Philippe; Bonifacio, Piercarlo; Abrams, Don Carlos; Middleton, Kevin; Dalton, Gavin; Aguerri, J. A. L.; Trager, Scott C.; Loeb, Avi
Bibliographical reference
Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 9151, id. 91515Y 9 pp. (2014).
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2014
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Description
WEAVE is the next-generation wide-field optical spectroscopy facility
for the William Herschel Telescope (WHT) in La Palma, Canary Islands,
Spain. WEAVE mainly aims at spectroscopic follow-up of ground-based
(e.g. LOFAR) and space-based (GAIA) surveys. The facility consists of a
new 2-degree field-of-view prime focus corrector with a 1000- multiplex
fibre positioner, a small number of individually deployable integral
field units, and a large single integral field unit. The IFUs (Integral
Field Units) and the MOS fibres can be used to feed a dual-beam
spectrograph that will provide full coverage of the majority of the
visible spectrum in a single exposure at a spectral resolution of ~5000
or modest wavelength coverage in both arms at a resolution ~20000. The
instrument is expected to be on-sky by 2017 to provide spectroscopic
sampling of the fainter end of the Gaia astrometric catalogue, chemical
labeling of stars to V~17, and dedicated follow up of substantial
numbers of sources from the medium deep LOFAR surveys. After a brief
description of the MOS fibre bundle, we described the proposed test plan
and the test bench of the 2x1000 WEAVE MOS fibres. The test bench allows
us to evaluate the Focal Ratio Degradation and the throughput of the
fibers fitted with their buttons and slitlets.