@article { , title = {The wide-field, multiplexed, spectroscopic facility WEAVE: Survey design, overview, and simulated implementation}, 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∼20000. 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 ∼25000 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.}, doi = {10.1093/mnras/stad557}, eissn = {1365-2966}, issn = {0035-8711}, journal = {Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society}, note = {Replace AAM with VoR when available. Need to add volume, issue, pagination}, publicationstatus = {Published}, url = {https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/14601371}, keyword = {surveys – instrumentation: spectrographs – Galaxy: general – stars: general – galaxies: general – cosmology: observations}, year = {2023}, author = {Jin, Shoko and Trager, Scott C. and Dalton, Gavin B. and Aguerri, J. Alfonso L. and Drew, J. E. and Falcón-Barroso, Jesús and Gänsicke, Boris T. and Hill, Vanessa and Iovino, Angela and Pieri, Matthew M. and Poggianti, Bianca M. and Smith, D. J. 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