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

DOI: 
10.1093/mnras/stad557
Publication date: 
01/01/2024
Main author: 
Jin, Shoko
IAA authors: 
Hess, Kelley M.; Conrado, Ana M.; García-Benito, Rubén; González Delgado, Rosa M.; Alfaro, Emilio J.
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.;Peralta de Arriba, Luis;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-Nú nez, 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;Fossati, Matteo;Franciosini, Elena;Frasca, Antonio;Fumagalli, Michele;Gallazzi, Anna;García-Benito, Rubén;Fusillo, Nicola Gentile;Gebran, Marwan;Gilbert, James;Gledhill, T. M.;González Delgado, Rosa M.;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;Magrini, Laura;Maíz Apellániz, Jesús;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;Onorbe, 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;Sabater Montes, Jose;San Juan, José;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
Journal: 
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Publication type: 
Article
Volume: 
530
Pages: 
2688-2730
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 ~ 5000, or two shorter ranges at R ~ 20 000. 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 ~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 ionised gas in z < 0.5 cluster galaxies; (vi) survey stellar populations and kinematics in ~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; (viii) trace structures using intergalactic/circumgalactic gas at z > 2. Finally, we describe the WEAVE Operational Rehearsals using the WEAVE Simulator.
Database: 
ADS
SCOPUS
URL: 
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2024MNRAS.530.2688J/abstract
ADS Bibcode: 
2024MNRAS.530.2688J
Keywords: 
surveys;instrumentation: spectrographs;Galaxy: general;stars: general;galaxies: general;cosmology: observations;Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics;Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics;Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies;Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics