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WEAVE is the next-generation wide-field survey facility for the William Herschel Telescope (WHT). Expected to start operations in early 2018, its goals are to complement the major space- and ground-based programmes in the current and coming decade, including Gaia, LOFAR and APERTIF, by providing a dedicated wide-field optical spectroscopic instrument in the Northern Hemisphere.
Its wide-ranging science goals cover various fields of Galactic and extragalactic astronomy. There are currently six independent WEAVE surveys planned, each with their own dedicated Science Teams, that will use a large fraction of 5 years of WHT time. WEAVE, with its nearly 1000-fibre MOS mode and IFU modes, will also be accessible to the wider astronomical community through open competition outside of this time.
A short overview of each of the planned WEAVE surveys is provided below, starting from surveys focusing on the nearby Universe and extending towards higher redshifts.
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WEAVE is a new multi-object survey spectrograph for the 4.2-m William Herschel Telescope (WHT) at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, on La Palma in the Canary Islands. It will allow astronomers to take optical spectra of up to ~1000 targets over a two-degree field of view in a single exposure (MOS), or to carry out integral-field spectroscopy using 20 deployable mini integral-field units (mIFUs) or one large fixed integral-field unit (LIFU). WEAVE's fibre-fed spectrograph comprises two arms, one optimised for the blue and one for the red, and offers two possible spectroscopic resolutions, 5000 and 20,000 |