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

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; Peralta de Arriba, Luis; Pérez, Isabel; Pérez-Ràfols, Ignasi; P...

Authors

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 Fariña

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-Núñez

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 Iršič

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 Oñorbe

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 Rubiño-Martín

Jose Sabater

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

Theodora Xylakis-Dornbusch

Kris Youakim

Stefano Zibetti

Cristina Zurita



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 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 ionized gas in z < 0.5 cluster galaxies; (vi) survey stellar populations and kinematics in ${\sim} 25\, 000$ 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; and (viii) trace structures using intergalactic/circumgalactic gas at z > 2. Finally, we describe the WEAVE Operational Rehearsals using the WEAVE Simulator.

Citation

Jin, S., Trager, S. C., Dalton, G. B., Aguerri, J. A. L., Drew, J. E., Falcón-Barroso, J., …Zurita, C. (2024). The wide-field, multiplexed, spectroscopic facility WEAVE: Survey design, overview, and simulated implementation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 530(3), 2688-2730. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad557

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Dec 4, 2022
Online Publication Date Mar 11, 2023
Publication Date 2024-05
Deposit Date May 13, 2024
Journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Print ISSN 0035-8711
Electronic ISSN 1365-2966
Publisher Oxford University Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 530
Issue 3
Pages 2688-2730
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad557
Public URL https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/826373