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20202026
most citedThe wide-field, multiplexed, spectroscopic facility WEAVE: Survey design, overview, and simulated implementation

211 citations · 220 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

astro-ph.HE2026

A spatially resolved view of Fast Radio Burst host metallicities with Integral-field Spectroscopy

Sunil Simha, Hsiao-Wen Chen, Wen-fai Fong +15

Magnetar sources are the leading theory for Fast Radio Burst (FRB) progenitors. If magnetars are indeed the dominant sources, we may thus expect any metallicity preference for magn…

astro-ph.SR2026

Sr and Ba yields of the First Generation(s) of stars: Constraints from metal-poor stars

Sarah Hughes, Anna Frebel, Xiaowei Ou +6

We present our chemical abundance analysis of ten new extremely metal-poor stars with $-4.05\leq\mbox{[Fe/H]}\leq-2.33$, based on high-resolution (R ) Magellan/MIKE spe…

astro-ph.GA2026

Carbon Abundances in Metal-Poor Stars Reveal Distinct Galaxy and Star Formation Pathways in the Early Universe

Alexander Yelland, Anna Frebel, Xiaowei Ou +2

Carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP; with and ) stars preserve information about early chemical enrichment, low-mass star formation, and th…

astro-ph.IM2026

The WEAVE acquisition and guiding software: pattern recognition-based acquisition and multi-fibre guiding

Emanuel Gafton, Gavin B. Dalton, Don Carlos Abrams +19

We present the architecture, implementation, and on-sky validation of the fully automated acquisition and guiding system (AG) developed for the WEAVE instrument on the William Hers…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

The WEAVE-TwiLight-Survey: Expanding WEAVE's Reach to Bright and Low-Surface-Density Targets with a Novel Observing Mode

Thomas Hajnik, Nicholas A. Walton, Giuseppe D'Ago +28

Current-day multi-object spectroscopic surveys are often limited in their ability to observe bright stars due to their low surface densities, resulting in increased observational o…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 211 cited

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

Shoko Jin, Scott C. Trager, Gavin B. Dalton +212

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…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 1 cited

Calibration at elevation of the WEAVE fibre positioner

Sarah Hughes, Gavin Dalton, Kevin Dee +11

WEAVE is the new wide-field spectroscopy facility for the prime focus of the William Herschel Telescope in La Palma, Spain. Its fibre positioner is essential for the accurate place…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 1 cited

Optimisation of the WEAVE target assignment algorithm

Sarah Hughes, Gavin Dalton, Daniel Smith +12

WEAVE is the new wide-field spectroscopic facility for the prime focus of the William Herschel Telescope in La Palma, Spain. Its fibre positioner is essential for the accurate plac…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 6 cited

Final assembly, metrology, and testing of the WEAVE fibre positioner

Sarah Hughes, Ellen Schallig, Ian J. Lewis +11

WEAVE is the new wide-field spectroscopy facility for the prime focus of the William Herschel Telescope at La Palma, Spain. Its fibre positioner is essential for the accurate place…