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astro-ph.IM2021

The Correlation Calibration of PAPER-64 data

Tamirat G. Gogo, Yin-Zhe Ma, Piyanat Kittiwisit +21

Observation of redshifted 21-cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) is challenging due to contamination from the bright foreground sources that exceed the signal by several…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 2 cited

Convolutional Deep Denoising Autoencoders for Radio Astronomical Images

Claudio Gheller, Franco Vazza

We apply a Machine Learning technique known as Convolutional Denoising Autoencoder to denoise synthetic images of state-of-the-art radio telescopes, with the goal of detecting the…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 2 cited

The Aperture Array Verification System 1: System overview and early commissioning results

P. Benthem, R. Wayth, E. de Lera Acedo +51

The design and development process for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope, the Low Frequency Aperture Array component, was progressed during the SKA pre-construction…

astro-ph.IM2021

Characterization of the SKA1-Low prototype station Aperture Array Verification System 2

Giulia Macario, Giuseppe Pupillo, Gianni Bernardi +16

The low frequency component of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA1-Low) will be an aperture phased array located at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) site in Western Aus…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 5 cited

Automated Detection of Antenna Malfunctions in Large-N Interferometers: A Case Study with the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array

Dara Storer, Joshua S. Dillon, Daniel C. Jacobs +75

We present a framework for identifying and flagging malfunctioning antennas in large radio interferometers. We outline two distinct categories of metrics designed to detect outlier…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 43 cited

Euclid preparation: XVI. Exploring the ultra low-surface brightness Universe with Euclid/VIS

A. S. Borlaff, P. Gómez-Alvarez, B. Altieri +180

While Euclid is an ESA mission specifically designed to investigate the nature of Dark Energy and Dark Matter, the planned unprecedented combination of survey area ( d…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 88 cited

Sub-arcsecond imaging with the International LOFAR Telescope I. Foundational calibration strategy and pipeline

L. K. Morabito, N. J. Jackson, S. Mooney +71

[abridged] The International LOFAR Telescope is an interferometer with stations spread across Europe. With baselines of up to ~2,000 km, LOFAR has the unique capability of achievin…

astro-ph.IM2021

The Additional Representative Images for Legacy (ARI-L) project for the ALMA Science Archive

M. Massardi, F. Stoehr, G. J. Bendo +15

The Additional Representative Images for Legacy (ARI-L) project is a European Development project for ALMA Upgrade approved by the Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) and the European Sou…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 68 cited

Fermi Large Area Telescope Performance After 10 Years Of Operation

The Fermi LAT Collaboration, M. Ajello, W. B. Atwood +126

The Large Area Telescope (LAT), the primary instrument for the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi) mission, is an imaging, wide field-of-view, high-energy gamma-ray telescope,…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 17 cited

Investigating ionospheric calibration for LOFAR 2.0 with simulated observations

H. W. Edler, F. de Gasperin, D. Rafferty

A number of hardware upgrades for the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) are currently under development. These upgrades are collectively referred to as the LOFAR 2.0 upgrade. The first s…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 27 cited

Validation of the HERA Phase I Epoch of Reionization 21 cm Power Spectrum Software Pipeline

James E. Aguirre, Steven G. Murray, Robert Pascua +73

We describe the validation of the HERA Phase I software pipeline by a series of modular tests, building up to an end-to-end simulation. The philosophy of this approach is to valida…

astro-ph.IM2021

Time Domain Astronomy with the THESEUS Satellite

S. Mereghetti, S. Balman, M. Caballero-Garcia +74

THESEUS is a medium size space mission of the European Space Agency, currently under evaluation for a possible launch in 2032. Its main objectives are to investigate the early Univ…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 16 cited

A Southern-Hemisphere all-sky radio transient monitor for SKA-Low prototype stations

M. Sokolowski, R. B. Wayth, N. D. R. Bhat +20

We present the first southern-hemisphere all-sky imager and radio-transient monitoring system implemented on two prototype stations of the low-frequency component of the Square Kil…

astro-ph.IM2021

A Real Time Processing System for Big Data in Astronomy: Applications to HERA

Paul La Plante, Peter K. G. Williams, Matthew Kolopanis +72

As current- and next-generation astronomical instruments come online, they will generate an unprecedented deluge of data. Analyzing these data in real time presents unique conceptu…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 18 cited

Methods of Error Estimation for Delay Power Spectra in Cosmology

Jianrong Tan, Adrian Liu, Nicholas S. Kern +71

Precise measurements of the 21 cm power spectrum are crucial for understanding the physical processes of hydrogen reionization. Currently, this probe is being pursued by low-freque…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 100 cited

The LOFAR LBA Sky Survey I. survey description and preliminary data release

F. de Gasperin, W. L. Williams, P. Best +38

LOFAR is the only radio telescope that is presently capable of high-sensitivity, high-resolution (<1 mJy/b and <15") observations at ultra-low frequencies (<100 MHz). To utilise th…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 2 cited

A New View of Observed Galaxies through 3D Modelling and Visualisation

Tim Dykes, Claudio Gheller, Bärbel S. Koribalski +2

Observational astronomers survey the sky in great detail to gain a better understanding of many types of astronomical phenomena. In particular, the formation and evolution of galax…