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

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doi:10.1093/mnras/stad557

articleMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical SocietyMar 11, 2023HYBRID OA

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

SJShoko Jin SCS. C. Trager GDGavin Dalton JAJ. A. L. Aguerri JEJ. E. Drew

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ABSTRACT WEAVE, the new wide-field, massively multiplexed spectroscopic survey facility for the William Herschel Telescope, saw first light in late 2022. WEAVE comprises a new 2-deg 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 $R\sim 20\, 000$. After summarizing the design and implementation of WEAVE and its data systems, we present the organization, science drivers, and design of a five- to seven-year programme of eight individual surveys to: (i) study our…

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