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

By G. Dalton, Scott Trager, D. Abrams, D. Carter, P. Bonifacio, J. Aguerri, M. Macintosh, C. Evans, Ian Lewis, R. Navarro and 33 more. Other Conferences, 2012

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Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Computational Mechanics, Instrumentation

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In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

1. Matthias Steinmetz
2. S. Majewski
3. R. Overzier
4. C. Jordi

In Computational Mechanics

1. A. Bragaglia
2. C. Soubiran
3. T. Cantat-Gaudin
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5. Friedrich Anders
6. V. Adibekyan
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6. S. Majewski
7. M. Hayden
8. A. Bragaglia

Citations in the corpus

• The Pristine survey - I. Mining the Galaxy for the most metal-poor stars (2017, unknown): “Future, ever larger spectroscopic surveys will be carried out by WEAVE (a multiobject survey spectrograph for the 4.2-m William Herschel Telescope, Dalton et al. 2012, 2014), PFS (Subaru Prime Focus Spectrograph, Takada et al. 2014), 4MOST (4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope, de Jong et…”
• The realm of the galaxy protoclusters (2016, methodology): “The William Herschel Telescope Enhanced Area Velocity Explorer (WEAVE; Dalton et al., 2012) and the 4 m Multi Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST; de Jong et al., 2014) will both have of order 1000 fibers over a few square degree field of view to perform medium resolution (MR) spectroscopy.”
• Estimating stellar birth radii and the time evolution of Milky Way’s ISM metallicity gradient (2018, background): “…al. 2015) and GaiaESO (Gilmore et al. 2012) within 2-3 kpc from the Sun, and APOGEE, SDSS-V’s Milky Way Mapper (MWM, Kollmeier et al. 2017), WEAVE (Dalton et al. 2012), and 4MOST (de Jong et al. 2012) up to ∼ 6 − 7 kpc from the Sun, combined with Gaia astrometry and asteroseismic ages from K2…”
• Painting a portrait of the Galactic disc with its stellar clusters (2020, background): “…et al. 2017), Gaia-ESO (Gilmore et al. 2012; Randich et al. 2013), GALAH (De Silva et al. 2015), LAMOST (Cui et al. 2012), or the upcoming WEAVE (Dalton et al. 2012) and 4MOST (de Jong et al. 2012; Guiglion et al. 2019) will provide additional observations allowing for the full characterisation…”