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Bayesian power spectrum estimation with modelling of systematic effects in delay-fringe rate space
Sohini Dutta, Philip Bull, Jacob Burba +3
Observing the Epoch of Reionisation using 21cm radio interferometry has proven to be a challenging task. Extraction of the extremely faint redshifted signal is complicated by the p…
Mitigating calibration errors from mutual coupling with time-domain filtering of 21 cm cosmological radio observations
N. Charles, N. S. Kern, R. Pascua +80
The 21 cm transition from neutral Hydrogen promises to be the best observational probe of the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR). This has led to the construction of low-frequency radio i…
Investigating Mutual Coupling in the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array and Mitigating its Effects on the 21-cm Power Spectrum
E. Rath, R. Pascua, A. T. Josaitis +78
Interferometric experiments designed to detect the highly redshifted 21-cm signal from neutral hydrogen are producing increasingly stringent constraints on the 21-cm power spectrum…
Evidence of Ultra-faint Radio Frequency Interference in Deep 21~cm Epoch of Reionization Power Spectra with the Murchison Widefield Array
Michael J. Wilensky, Miguel F. Morales, Bryna J. Hazelton +7
We present deep upper limits from the 2014 Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) Phase I observing season, with a particular emphasis on identifying the spectral fingerprints of extremel…
Why and When to Expect Gaussian Error Distributions in Epoch of Reionization 21-cm Power Spectrum Measurements
Michael J. Wilensky, Jordan Brown, Bryna J. Hazelton
We explore error distributions in Epoch of Reionization 21-cm power spectrum estimators using a combination of mathematical analysis and numerical simulations. We provide closed fo…
Statistical recovery of 21cm visibilities and their power spectra with Gaussian constrained realisations and Gibbs sampling
Fraser Kennedy, Philip Bull, Michael Wilensky +2
Radio interferometers designed to probe the 21cm signal from Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionisation must contend with systematic effects that make it difficult to achieve suffic…
Bayesian jackknife tests with a small number of subsets: Application to HERA 21cm power spectrum upper limits
Michael J. Wilensky, Fraser Kennedy, Philip Bull +2
We present a Bayesian jackknife test for assessing the probability that a data set contains biased subsets, and, if so, which of the subsets are likely to be biased. The test can b…
Improved Constraints on the 21 cm EoR Power Spectrum and the X-Ray Heating of the IGM with HERA Phase I Observations
The HERA Collaboration, Zara Abdurashidova, Tyrone Adams +92
We report the most sensitive upper limits to date on the 21 cm epoch of reionization power spectrum using 94 nights of observing with Phase I of the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization…
Epoch of Reionization Power Spectrum Limits from Murchison Widefield Array Data Targeted at EoR1 Field
M. Rahimi, B. Pindor, J. L. B. Line +28
Current attempts to measure the 21cm Power Spectrum of neutral hydrogen during the Epoch of Reionization are limited by systematics which produce measured upper limits above both t…
Exploring the consequences of chromatic data excision in 21-cm Epoch of Reionization power spectrum observations
Michael J. Wilensky, Bryna J. Hazelton, Miguel F. Morales
We explore how chromatic RFI flags affect 21-cm power spectrum measurements. We particularly study flags that are coarser than the analysis resolution. We find that such RFI flags…
Constraining the 21cm brightness temperature of the IGM at =6.6 around LAEs with the Murchison Widefield Array
Cathryn M. Trott, C. H. Jordan, J. L. B. Line +29
The locations of Ly- emitting galaxies (LAEs) at the end of the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR) are expected to correlate with regions of ionised hydrogen, traced by the redshifted…
A new MWA limit on the 21 cm Power Spectrum at Redshifts 13 17
S. Yoshiura, B. Pindor, J. L. B. Line +29
Observations in the lowest MWA band between MHz have the potential to constrain the distribution of neutral hydrogen in the intergalactic medium at redshift .…
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…
The Impact of Tandem Redundant/Sky-Based Calibration in MWA Phase II Data Analysis
Zheng Zhang, Jonathan C. Pober, Wenyang Li +26
Precise instrumental calibration is of crucial importance to 21-cm cosmology experiments. The Murchison Widefield Array's (MWA) Phase II compact configuration offers us opportuniti…
A Unified Calibration Framework for 21 cm Cosmology
Ruby Byrne, Miguel F. Morales, Bryna Hazelton +1
Calibration precision is currently a limiting systematic in 21 cm cosmology experiments. While there are innumerable calibration approaches, most can be categorized as either `sky-…
Quantifying Excess Power from Radio Frequency Interference in Epoch of Reionization Measurements
Michael J. Wilensky, Nichole Barry, Miguel F. Morales +2
We quantify the effect of radio frequency interference (RFI) on measurements of the 21-cm power spectrum during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). Specifically, we investigate how th…
Deep multi-redshift limits on Epoch of Reionisation 21cm Power Spectra from Four Seasons of Murchison Widefield Array Observations
Cathryn M. Trott, C. H. Jordan, S. Midgley +33
We compute the spherically-averaged power spectrum from four seasons of data obtained for the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR) project observed with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA).…
First Season MWA Phase II EoR Power Spectrum Results at Redshift 7
W. Li, J. C. Pober, N. Barry +44
The compact configuration of Phase II of the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) consists of both a redundant subarray and pseudo-random baselines, offering unique opportunities to per…
Improving the Epoch of Reionization Power Spectrum Results from Murchison Widefield Array Season 1 Observations
N. Barry, M. Wilensky, C. M. Trott +27
Measurements of 21 cm Epoch of Reionization (EoR) structure are subject to systematics originating from both the analysis and the observation conditions. Using 2013 data from the M…
Absolving the SSINS of Precision Interferometric Radio Data: A New Technique for Mitigating Faint Radio Frequency Interference
Michael J. Wilensky, Miguel F. Morales, Bryna J. Hazelton +3
We introduce a new pipeline for analyzing and mitigating radio frequency interference (RFI), which we call Sky-Subtracted Incoherent Noise Spectra (SSINS). SSINS is designed to ide…
Gridded and direct Epoch of Reionisation bispectrum estimates using the Murchison Widefield Array
Cathryn M. Trott, Catherine A. Watkinson, Christopher H. Jordan +42
We apply two methods to estimate the 21~cm bispectrum from data taken within the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR) project of the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). Using data acquired wit…
Robust statistics toward detection of the 21 cm signal from the Epoch of Reionisation
Cathryn M. Trott, Shih Ching Fu, Steven Murray +26
We explore methods for robust estimation of the 21 cm signal from the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR). A Kernel Density Estimator (KDE) is introduced for measuring the spatial temperat…