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Publications (6)

astro-ph.HE2010

The Allen Telescope Array Pi GHz Sky Survey I. Survey Description and Static Catalog Results for the Bootes Field

Geoffrey C. Bower, Steve Croft, Garrett Keating +50

The Pi GHz Sky Survey (PiGSS) is a key project of the Allen Telescope Array. PiGSS is a 3.1 GHz survey of radio continuum emission in the extragalactic sky with an emphasis on syno…

astro-ph1998

VLBA Imaging at 7 mm and Linear Polarimetric Observations at 6 cm and 3 mm of Sagittarius A*

Geoffrey C. Bower, Heino Falcke, Don Backer +1

We summarize the results of 7 mm VLBA imaging of Sgr A* and discuss some of the difficulties of accurately constraining the size of Sgr A* with VLBI observations. Our imaging resul…

astro-ph.CO2009

Imaging an Event Horizon: submm-VLBI of a Super Massive Black Hole

Sheperd Doeleman, Eric Agol, Don Backer +20

A long standing goal in astrophysics is to directly observe the immediate environment of a black hole with angular resolution comparable to the event horizon. Realizing this goal w…

astro-ph.HE2011

The Allen Telescope Array Fly's Eye Survey for Fast Radio Transients

Andrew P. V. Siemion, Geoffrey C. Bower, Griffin Foster +6

The relatively unexplored fast radio transient parameter space is known to be home to a variety of interesting sources, including pulsars, pulsar giant pulses and non-thermal emiss…

astro-ph.CO2010

The Allen Telescope Array Twenty-centimeter Survey - A 690-Square-Degree, 12-Epoch Radio Dataset - I: Catalog and Long-Duration Transient Statistics

Steve Croft, Geoffrey C. Bower, Rob Ackermann +48

We present the Allen Telescope Array Twenty-centimeter Survey (ATATS), a multi-epoch (12 visits), 690 square degree radio image and catalog at 1.4GHz. The survey is designed to det…

astro-ph.IM2009

The Allen Telescope Array: The First Widefield, Panchromatic, Snapshot Radio Camera for Radio Astronomy and SETI

Jack Welch, Don Backer, Leo Blitz +40

The first 42 elements of the Allen Telescope Array (ATA-42) are beginning to deliver data at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory in Northern California. Scientists and engineers are ac…