The wide-field, multiplexed, spectroscopic facility WEAVE: Survey design, overview, and simulated implementation

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Title: The wide-field, multiplexed, spectroscopic facility WEAVE: Survey design, overview, and simulated implementation
Authors: Jin, Shoko | Trager, Scott C. | Dalton, Gavin B. | Aguerri, J. Alfonso L. | Drew, J.E. | Falcón-Barroso, Jesús | Gänsicke, B.T. | Hill, V. | Iovino, Angela | Pieri, Matthew M. | Poggianti, Bianca M. | Fumagalli, Michele | Boeche, Corrado | Fariña, Cecilia | Gonzalez, Oscar A. | Guest, Steve | Bellazzini, M. | Drake, Alyssa | Longhetti, Marcella | Herrero, Artemio | Monari, Giacomo | Carrasco, Esperanza | Dutta, Rajeshwari | Deason, Alis | Irwin, M. | Sordo, R. | Serra, Paolo | Lucatello, Sara | Bolzonella, Micol | Gallazzi, Anna | Peralta de Arriba, Luis | García-Benito, Rubén | Van der Swaelmen, M. | Stuik, Remko | Peletier, Reynier F. | Hughes, Sarah | de Burgos, Abel | Magrini, L. | Ferré-Mateu, Anna | Pérez, Isabel | Carter, David | Haines, Christopher P. | Som, Debopam | Lind, K. | Hardcastle, Martin J. | Raddi, Roberto | Weijmans, Anne-Marie | Vioque, Miguel | Schiavon, Ricardo P. | Figueras, Francesca | Irsic, Vid | Bernard, Edouard J. | Jablonka, Pascale | Amos, Nicholas J. | Lodi, Marcello | Ascasibar, Yago | Abrams, Don Carlos | Best, Philip | Gebran, M. | Lam, Man I. | Bonoli, Silvia | Larsen, Søren S. | Domínguez-Palmero, Lilian | Bragaglia, A. | Verro, Kristiina | Longobardi, Alessia | Morelli, Lorenzo | Jarvis, Matt J. | Schultheis, Mathias | Feuillet, D.K. | Bosma, Albert | Haywood, Misha | Marco, Amparo | Casamiquela, L. | Sabater Montes, Jose | Martin, Nicolas F. | Sorini, Daniele | Cantat-Gaudin, T. | Kuchner, Ulrike | Hoskin, Matthew J. | Smith, D.J.B. | Jordi, C. | Mottram, Christopher J. | Fossati, Matteo | Naylor, Tim | Dorda Laforet, Ricardo | San Juan, José | Antoja, Teresa | Vink, Jorick S. | Merluzzi, Paola | Franciosini, E. | Lewis, Ian J. | Ramos, Pau | Gilbert, James | Read, Shaun C. | Siebert, Arnaud | Picó, Sergio | Hatch, Nina A. | Miralda-Escudé, Jordi | Sanna, N. | Tolstoy, Eline | Negueruela, Ignacio | Vallenari, A. | Gledhill, T.M. | González Delgado, Rosa M. | Maurogordato, Sophie | Simón Díaz, Sergio | Helmi, Amina | Wright, N. | Méndez-Abreu, Jairo | Smith, Russell J. | Babusiaux, Carine | Gullieuszik, Marco | Balbinot, Eduardo | Alonso-Santiago, Javier | Hernandez, Nauzet | Onorbe, Jose | Tortora, Crescenzo | Kondapally, Rohit | Tsantaki, M. | Bettoni, Daniela | Pérez-Ràfols, Ignasi | Xylakis-Dornbusch, Theodora | Schallig, Ellen | Hess, Kelley M. | Soubiran, C. | Kordopatis, G. | Röttgering, Huub J.A. | Walton, N. | Lhomé, Emilie | Wegg, Christopher | La Barbera, Francesco | Carbajo-Hijarrubia, Juan | Caffau, Elisabetta | Alfaro, Emilio J. | Starkenburg, Else | Youakim, Kris | Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso | Zibetti, Stefano | Marchal, Olivier | Erkal, Denis | Domínguez-Gómez, Jesús | Molinari, Emilio | van Weeren, Reinout J. | Carrera, Ricardo | Pancino, E. | Cornwell, Daniel J. | Gentile Fusillo, Nicola | Frasca, A. | Britavskiy, Nikolay | Mercurio, Amata | Zurita, Cristina | Allende Prieto, C. | Balcells, Marc | Peirani, Sébastien | Williams, Wendy L. | Knapen, Johan H. | Rubiño-Martín, J.A. | Terrett, David | Koposov, S. | Rainer, Monica | Harris, Amy | Guerra, Jose | De Grandi, Sabrina | Belokurov, Vasily | Molaeinezhad, Alireza | Steele, Iain A. | Monguió, María | Shimwell, Timothy W. | Thomas, Guillaume | Busarello, Gianni | Lewis, J. | Stott, John | Duncan, Kenneth J. | Romero-Gómez, Mercè | Vergani, Daniela | Royer, Frédéric | Lemasle, Bertrand | Krogager, Jens-Kristian | Greimel, Robert | Wesson, Roger | Bianco, Andrea | Morrison, Sean | Di Matteo, Paola | Barrena, R. | Verheijen, Marc A.W. | Laigle, Clotilde | Ashley, Richard P. | Wilson, Andrew J. | Conrado, Ana M. | Balaguer-Nunez, L. | Feltzing, S. | Walcher, C. Jakob | Matsuno, Tadafumi | Maíz Apellániz, Jesús | Battaglia, Giuseppina | Murphy, D.N.A. | Bishop, Georgia | Bensby, T. | Blomqvist, Michael | Aguado, David S. | Corcho-Caballero, Pablo | Worley, C.C. | Guarcello, Mario Giuseppe | Benn, Chris R. | Bonifacio, P. | Seabroke, G.M. | Castro-Ginard, Alfred | Famaey, Benoit | Couto, Guilherme | Rossi, Elena Maria | Pozzetti, Lucia | Lonoce, Ilaria | Berlanas, Sara R. | Costantin, Luca
Research Group/s: Astrofísica Estelar (AE)
Center, Department or Service: Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Física Aplicada | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Física, Ingeniería de Sistemas y Teoría de la Señal
Keywords: Surveys | Instrumentation: spectrographs | Galaxy: general | Stars: general | Galaxies: general | Cosmology: observations
Issue Date: 11-Mar-2023
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Citation: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 2024, 530(3): 2688-2730. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad557
Abstract: WEAVE, the new wide-field, massively multiplexed spectroscopic survey facility for the William Herschel Telescope, will see first light in late 2022. WEAVE comprises a new 2-degree field-of-view prime-focus corrector system, a nearly 1000-multiplex fibre positioner, 20 individually deployable ‘mini’ integral field units (IFUs), and a single large IFU. These fibre systems feed a dual-beam spectrograph covering the wavelength range 366−959 nm at R ∼ 5000, or two shorter ranges at R ∼ 20 000. After summarising the design and implementation of WEAVE and its data systems, we present the organisation, science drivers and design of a five- to seven-year programme of eight individual surveys to: (i) study our Galaxy’s origins by completing Gaia’s phase-space information, providing metallicities to its limiting magnitude for ∼3 million stars and detailed abundances for ∼1.5 million brighter field and open-cluster stars; (ii) survey ∼0.4 million Galactic-plane OBA stars, young stellar objects and nearby gas to understand the evolution of young stars and their environments; (iii) perform an extensive spectral survey of white dwarfs; (iv) survey ∼400 neutral-hydrogen-selected galaxies with the IFUs; (v) study properties and kinematics of stellar populations and ionised gas in z < 0.5 cluster galaxies; (vi) survey stellar populations and kinematics in ∼25 000 field galaxies at 0.3 ≲ z ≲ 0.7; (vii) study the cosmic evolution of accretion and star formation using >1 million spectra of LOFAR-selected radio sources; (viii) trace structures using intergalactic/circumgalactic gas at z > 2. Finally, we describe the WEAVE Operational Rehearsals using the WEAVE Simulator.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10045/132962
ISSN: 0035-8711 (Print) | 1365-2966 (Online)
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad557
Language: eng
Type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Rights: © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad557
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