Bibliographic Details
| 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, Boris T., Hill, Vanessa, Iovino, Angela, Pieri, Matthew M., Poggianti, Bianca M., Smith, D. J. B., Vallenari, Antonella, Abrams, Don Carlos, Aguado, David S., Antoja, Teresa, Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso, Ascasibar, Yago, Babusiaux, Carine, Balcells, Marc, Barrena, R., Battaglia, Giuseppina, Belokurov, Vasily, Bensby, Thomas, Bonifacio, Piercarlo, Bragaglia, Angela, Carrasco, Esperanza, Carrera, Ricardo, Cornwell, Daniel J., Domínguez-Palmero, Lilian, Duncan, Kenneth J., Famaey, Benoit, Fariña, Cecilia, Gonzalez, Oscar A., Guest, Steve, Hatch, Nina A., Hess, Kelley M., Hoskin, Matthew J., Irwin, Mike, Knapen, Johan H., Koposov, Sergey E., Kuchner, Ulrike, Laigle, Clotilde, Lewis, Jim, Longhetti, Marcella, Lucatello, Sara, Méndez-Abreu, Jairo, Mercurio, Amata, Molaeinezhad, Alireza, Monguió, Maria, Morrison, Sean, Murphy, David N. A., de Arriba, Luis Peralta, Pérez, Isabel, Pérez-Ràfols, Ignasi, Picó, Sergio, Raddi, Roberto, Romero-Gómez, Mercè, Royer, Frédéric, Siebert, Arnaud, Seabroke, George M., Som, Debopam, Terrett, David, Thomas, Guillaume, Wesson, Roger, Worley, C. Clare, Alfaro, Emilio J., Prieto, Carlos Allende, Alonso-Santiago, Javier, Amos, Nicholas J., Ashley, Richard P., Balaguer-Núñez, Lola, Balbinot, Eduardo, Bellazzini, Michele, Benn, Chris R., Berlanas, Sara R., Bernard, Edouard J., Best, Philip, Bettoni, Daniela, Bianco, Andrea, Bishop, Georgia, Blomqvist, Michael, Boeche, Corrado, Bolzonella, Micol, Bonoli, Silvia, Bosma, Albert, Britavskiy, Nikolay, Busarello, Gianni, Caffau, Elisabetta, Cantat-Gaudin, Tristan, Castro-Ginard, Alfred, Couto, Guilherme, Carbajo-Hijarrubia, Juan, Carter, David, Casamiquela, Laia, Conrado, Ana M., Corcho-Caballero, Pablo, Costantin, Luca, Deason, Alis, de Burgos, Abel, De Grandi, Sabrina, Di Matteo, Paola, Domínguez-Gómez, Jesús, Dorda, Ricardo, Drake, Alyssa, Dutta, Rajeshwari, Erkal, Denis, Feltzing, Sofia, Ferré-Mateu, Anna, Feuillet, Diane, Figueras, Francesca, Fossat, Matteo, Franciosin, Elena, Frasca, Antonio, Fumagalli, Michele, Gallazzi, Anna, García-Benito, Rubén, Fusillo, Nicola Gentile, Gebran, Marwan, Gilbert, James, Gledhill, T. M., Delgado, Rosa M. González, Greimel, Robert, Guarcello, Mario Giuseppe, Guerra, Jose, Gullieuszik, Marco, Haines, Christopher P., Hardcastle, Martin J., Harris, Amy, Haywood, Misha, Helmi, Amina, Hernandez, Nauzet, Herrero, Artemio, Hughes, Sarah, Irsic, Vid, Jablonka, Pascale, Jarvis, Matt J., Jordi, Carme, Kondapally, Rohit, Kordopatis, Georges, Krogager, Jens-Kristian, La Barbera, Francesco, Lam, Man I, Larsen, Søren S., Lemasle, Bertrand, Lewis, Ian J., Lhomé, Emilie, Lind, Karin, Lodi, Marcello, Longobardi, Alessia, Lonoce, Ilaria, Magrin, Laura, Apellániz, Jesús Maíz, Marchal, Olivier, Marco, Amparo, Martin, Nicolas F., Matsuno, Tadafumi, Maurogordato, Sophie, Merluzzi, Paola, Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Molinari, Emilio, Monari, Giacomo, Morelli, Lorenzo, Mottram, Christopher J., Naylor, Tim, Negueruela, Ignacio, Oñorbe, Jose, Pancino, Elena, Peirani, Sébastien, Peletier, Reynier F., Pozzetti, Lucia, Rainer, Monica, Ramos, Pau, Read, Shaun C., Rossi, Elena Maria, Röttgering, Huub J. A., Rubiño-Martín, Jose Alberto, Montes, Jose Sabater, Juan, José San, Sanna, Nicoletta, Schallig, Ellen, Schiavon, Ricardo P., Schultheis, Mathias, Serra, Paolo, Shimwell, Timothy W., Simón-Díaz, Sergio, Smith, Russell J., Sordo, Rosanna, Sorini, Daniele, Soubiran, Caroline, Starkenburg, Else, Steele, Iain A., Stott, John, Stuik, Remko, Tolstoy, Eline, Tortora, Crescenzo, Tsantaki, Maria, Van der Swaelmen, Mathieu, van Weeren, Reinout J., Vergani, Daniela, Verheijen, Marc A. W., Verro, Kristiina, Vink, Jorick S., Vioque, Miguel, Walcher, C. Jakob, Walton, Nicholas A., Wegg, Christopher, Weijmans, Anne-Marie, Williams, Wendy L., Wilson, Andrew J., Wright, Nicholas J., Xylakis-Dornbusch, Theodora, Youakim, Kris, Zibetti, Stefano, Zurita, Cristina |
| Publication Year: |
2022 |
| Collection: |
Astrophysics |
| Subject Terms: |
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics |
| More Details: |
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 $R\sim5000$, or two shorter ranges at $R\sim20\,000$. 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 $\sim$3 million stars and detailed abundances for $\sim1.5$ million brighter field and open-cluster stars; (ii) survey $\sim0.4$ 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 $\sim400$ 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 $\sim25\,000$ field galaxies at $0.3\lesssim z \lesssim 0.7$; (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.
Comment: 41 pages, 27 figures, accepted for publication by MNRAS; updated version including information on individual grants in a revised Acknowledgements section, corrections to the affiliation list, and an updated references list |
| Document Type: |
Working Paper |
| DOI: |
10.1093/mnras/stad557 |
| Access URL: |
http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.03981 |
| Accession Number: |
edsarx.2212.03981 |
| Database: |
arXiv |
