WEAVE: the next generation wide-field spectroscopy facility for the William Herschel Telescope

Bibcode
2012SPIE.8446E..0PD
DOI
10.1117/12.925950
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
Bibliographical reference

Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 8446, id. 84460P-84460P-12 (2012).

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9
2012
Number of authors
43
IAC number of authors
3
Citations
178
Refereed citations
142
Description
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.
Type
Non-refereed

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