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The wide-field, multiplexed, spectroscopic facility WEAVE: Survey design, overview, and simulated implementation
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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.; de Arriba, Luis Peralta; 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-Núñez, 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; Fossat, Matteo; Franciosin, Elena; Frasca, Antonio; Fumagalli, Michele; Gallazzi, Anna; García-Benito, Rubén; Fusillo, Nicola Gentile; Gebran, Marwan; Gilbert, James; Gledhill, T. M.; Delgado, Rosa M. González; 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; Magrin, Laura; Apellániz, Jesús Maíz; 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; Oñorbe, 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; Montes, Jose Sabater; Juan, José San; 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
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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 $z<0.5$ cluster galaxies; (vi) survey stellar populations and kinematics in $\sim25\,000$ field galaxies at $0.3\lesssim z \lesssim 0.7$; (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.
Comment: 41 pages, 27 figures, accepted for publication by MNRAS; updated version including information on individual grants in a revised Acknowledgements section, corrections to the affiliation list, and an updated references list
Comment: 41 pages, 27 figures, accepted for publication by MNRAS; updated version including information on individual grants in a revised Acknowledgements section, corrections to the affiliation list, and an updated references list