1. The wide-field, multiplexed, spectroscopic facility WEAVE: Survey design, overview, and simulated implementation
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Shoko Jin, Scott C Trager, Gavin B Dalton, J Alfonso L Aguerri, J E Drew, Jesús Falcón-Barroso, Boris T Gänsicke, Vanessa Hill, Angela Iovino, Matthew M Pieri, Bianca M Poggianti, D J B Smith, Antonella Vallenari, Don Carlos Abrams, David S Aguado, Teresa Antoja, Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca, Yago Ascasibar, Carine Babusiaux, Marc Balcells, R Barrena, Giuseppina Battaglia, Vasily Belokurov, Thomas Bensby, Piercarlo Bonifacio, Angela Bragaglia, Esperanza Carrasco, Ricardo Carrera, Daniel J Cornwell, Lilian Domínguez-Palmero, Kenneth J Duncan, Benoit Famaey, Cecilia Fari na, Oscar A Gonzalez, Steve Guest, Nina A Hatch, Kelley M Hess, Matthew J Hoskin, Mike Irwin, Johan H Knapen, Sergey E Koposov, Ulrike Kuchner, Clotilde Laigle, Jim Lewis, Marcella Longhetti, Sara Lucatello, Jairo Méndez-Abreu, Amata Mercurio, Alireza Molaeinezhad, Maria Monguió, Sean Morrison, David N A Murphy, Luis Peralta de Arriba, Isabel Pérez, Ignasi Pérez-Ràfols, Sergio Picó, Roberto Raddi, Mercè Romero-Gómez, Frédéric Royer, Arnaud Siebert, George M Seabroke, Debopam Som, David Terrett, Guillaume Thomas, Roger Wesson, C Clare Worley, Emilio J Alfaro, Carlos Allende Prieto, Javier Alonso-Santiago, Nicholas J Amos, Richard P Ashley, Lola Balaguer-Nú nez, Eduardo Balbinot, Michele Bellazzini, Chris R Benn, Sara R Berlanas, Edouard J Bernard, Philip Best, Daniela Bettoni, Andrea Bianco, Georgia Bishop, Michael Blomqvist, Corrado Boeche, Micol Bolzonella, Silvia Bonoli, Albert Bosma, Nikolay Britavskiy, Gianni Busarello, Elisabetta Caffau, Tristan Cantat-Gaudin, Alfred Castro-Ginard, Guilherme Couto, Juan Carbajo-Hijarrubia, David Carter, Laia Casamiquela, Ana M Conrado, Pablo Corcho-Caballero, Luca Costantin, Alis Deason, Abel de Burgos, Sabrina De Grandi, Paola Di Matteo, Jesús Domínguez-Gómez, Ricardo Dorda, Alyssa Drake, Rajeshwari Dutta, Denis Erkal, Sofia Feltzing, Anna Ferré-Mateu, Diane Feuillet, Francesca Figueras, Matteo Fossati, Elena Franciosini, Antonio Frasca, Michele Fumagalli, Anna Gallazzi, Rubén García-Benito, Nicola Gentile Fusillo, Marwan Gebran, James Gilbert, T M Gledhill, Rosa M González Delgado, Robert Greimel, Mario Giuseppe Guarcello, Jose Guerra, Marco Gullieuszik, Christopher P Haines, Martin J Hardcastle, Amy Harris, Misha Haywood, Amina Helmi, Nauzet Hernandez, Artemio Herrero, Sarah Hughes, Vid Irsic, Pascale Jablonka, Matt J Jarvis, Carme Jordi, Rohit Kondapally, Georges Kordopatis, Jens-Kristian Krogager, Francesco La Barbera, Man I Lam, Søren S Larsen, Bertrand Lemasle, Ian J Lewis, Emilie Lhomé, Karin Lind, Marcello Lodi, Alessia Longobardi, Ilaria Lonoce, Laura Magrini, Jesús Maíz Apellániz, Olivier Marchal, Amparo Marco, Nicolas F Martin, Tadafumi Matsuno, Sophie Maurogordato, Paola Merluzzi, Jordi Miralda-Escudé, Emilio Molinari, Giacomo Monari, Lorenzo Morelli, Christopher J Mottram, Tim Naylor, Ignacio Negueruela, Jose Onorbe, Elena Pancino, Sébastien Peirani, Reynier F Peletier, Lucia Pozzetti, Monica Rainer, Pau Ramos, Shaun C Read, Elena Maria Rossi, Huub J A Röttgering, Jose Alberto Rubi no-Martín, Jose Sabater Montes, José San Juan, Nicoletta Sanna, Ellen Schallig, Ricardo P Schiavon, Mathias Schultheis, Paolo Serra, Timothy W Shimwell, Sergio Simón-Díaz, Russell J Smith, Rosanna Sordo, Daniele Sorini, Caroline Soubiran, Else Starkenburg, Iain A Steele, John Stott, Remko Stuik, Eline Tolstoy, Crescenzo Tortora, Maria Tsantaki, Mathieu Van der Swaelmen, Reinout J van Weeren, Daniela Vergani, Marc A W Verheijen, Kristiina Verro, Jorick S Vink, Miguel Vioque, C Jakob Walcher, Nicholas A Walton, Christopher Wegg, Anne-Marie Weijmans, Wendy L Williams, Andrew J Wilson, Nicholas J Wright, Theodora Xylakis-Dornbusch, Kris Youakim, Stefano Zibetti, Cristina Zurita, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur (OCA), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (IPAG), Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG ), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Météo-France -Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Météo-France, Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique, Instrumentation (GEPI), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg (ObAS), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon (CRAL), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews. Centre for Contemporary Art, Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Física Aplicada, Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Física, Ingeniería de Sistemas y Teoría de la Señal, and Astrofísica Estelar (AE)
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Astrofísica ,Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) ,NDAS ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Surveys ,surveys ,QB Astronomy ,spectrographs [Instrumentation] ,observations [Cosmology] ,Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ,Galaxy: general ,stars: general ,Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR) ,general [Galaxy] ,QC ,QB ,instrumentation: spectrographs ,general [Stars] ,Análisis de datos ,Instrumentation spectrographs ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,general [Galaxies] ,galaxies: general ,Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies ,QC Physics ,Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics ,Space and Planetary Science ,[SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics] ,Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA) ,MCP ,cosmology: observations ,Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics - 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 $R\sim5000$, 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 $z1$ 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., 41 pages, 27 figures, accepted for publication by MNRAS
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- 2023