{"id":13148,"date":"2021-07-12T11:21:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T10:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=13148"},"modified":"2021-07-12T11:21:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T10:21:09","slug":"novel-upgrades-william-herschel-telescope-near-completion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/novel-upgrades-william-herschel-telescope-near-completion\/13148\/","title":{"rendered":"Novel upgrades to the William Herschel Telescope near completion\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The astronomical advancements\u202fbeing made to the William Herschel Telescope\u00a0that will facilitate a\u00a0thorough survey of the Universe\u00a0are close to finalisation.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The significant modifications to the William Herschel Telescope will enable scientists to perform an in-depth <a href=\"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/exploring-the-universe-with-cosmological-surveys\/8900\/\">analysis of the Universe<\/a>, providing crucial answers to fundamental astrophysical questions, such as how we came into existence and the search for life outside of our galactic neighbourhood.\u202f<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Understanding the galaxy with the WHT Enhanced Area Velocity Explorer<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The novel advancement, the WHT Enhanced Area Velocity Explorer (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ralspace.stfc.ac.uk\/Pages\/WEAVE-at-the-William-Herschel-Telescope--.aspx\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">WEAVE<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">), will enhance the field of view of the William Herschel Telescope by up to two degrees on the sky, which will increase the rate of around 1000 stars per hour.\u202f\u202f<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The components of WEAVE have\u202frecently arrived in the Canary Islands, with the system currently undergoing testing before being integrated into the William Herschel Telescope; it will subsequently move on to the on-sky commissioning phase before the inception of a 1200-night survey that the instrument will perform over the next five years.\u202f\u202f<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The vital data collated by WEAVE \u2013 more than 12 million spectra \u2013 will be utilised to enrich the science return from the European Space Agencies\u202fMilky Way mapper.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Of\u00a0particular note\u00a0is facilitating the mapping of the dark matter distribution in the Milky Way. As well as this, it will enable comprehensive examinations of the creation and development of galaxies across cosmic time, and the interactions between the stellar content of galaxies and their central black holes.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Professor Scott Trager, WEAVE Project Scientist and chair of the WEAVE Survey Consortium, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0commented: \u201cWe are very excited to see WEAVE reach this important milestone. WEAVE will provide tens of millions of spectra of stars and galaxies over the coming five years, and the WEAVE Survey will provide data that will help answer questions like how\u00a0did our galaxy form and the stars within it evolve, how were other galaxies assembled, and what are dark matter and dark energy?\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span data-contrast=\"auto\">UK involvement with WEAVE<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Scientists in the UK have led the European\u00a0group\u00a0that has\u00a0designed\u00a0and produced\u00a0this key instrument, with fundamental leadership coming from the\u00a0University of Oxford and STFC RAL Space and with additional technology supplied by Liverpool John\u00a0Moores\u00a0University and a complex data processing pipeline development led by the University of Cambridge.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Professor Gavin Dalton, WEAVE Principal Investigator, University of Oxford and STFC RAL Space, added: \u201cIt is tremendous to see the sustained efforts of so many groups of people finally coming together at the telescope, and to finally be able to bring the system to operation.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cWEAVE has been\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">10\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ten<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">years in development with lots of complex moving parts and components scattered in laboratories across Europe. With everything now at the telescope and operating correctly<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0we are on the cusp of offering astronomers a new and improved eye on the stars.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span data-contrast=\"auto\">WEAVE\u2019s installation\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">After installation efforts of over a year, with close to 100km of optical fibre assemblies, WEAVE&#8217;s fibre positioner has left the UK and has been tested and calibrated.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The positioner can place full configurations of over 900 fibres in less than an hour by utilising its two high-speed industrial robots. Every fibre gathers light from an individual star or galaxy<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0which is fed to the spectrograph.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The WEAVE spectrograph has already been installed at the WHT. It has two arms, each with its own custom-built cryostat \u2013 a liquid-nitrogen refrigeration unit\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">which\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">that<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">will cool the detectors to help limit background \u2018noise\u2019, to generate much clearer spectra.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Testing has been conducted on the spectrograph and has yielded\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">high\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">high<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8211;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">quality images at all wavelengths from the ultra-violet to the far red. Each fibre can gather the light from a single star or galaxy.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">After the instrument has been integrated, WEAVE\u2019s\u00a0on-sky commissioning\u00a0will commence. Following on from this will be science verification observations. Operated by the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, it will then begin\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">routine survey and\u00a0open-time\u00a0observing.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The astronomical advancements\u202fbeing made to the William Herschel Telescope\u00a0that will facilitate a\u00a0thorough survey of the Universe\u00a0are close to finalisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":13149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[771],"tags":[3477,809],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n<title>Novel 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