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Quantifying Foreground Contamination in the Dark Ages 21 cm Power Spectrum Using an Electromagnetically Simulated Dipole Antenna Atop a Dielectric Surface
Willow Smith, Jonathan C. Pober, Bang D. Nahn +2
The highly-redshifted 21 cm signal from the cosmic Dark Ages presents an exciting frontier for cosmology, with the potential to observe a large number of Fourier modes of the cosmi…
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Site selection for the Laser Interferometer Lunar Antenna (LILA)
James Trippe, Ronald Polidan, Teviet Creighton +6
The Earth's Moon presents a uniquely advantageous environment for detecting astrophysical gravitational waves (GWs), particularly in the decihertz regime. The Laser Interferometer…
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The FarView Low Frequency Radio Array on the Moon's Far Side: Science and Array Architecture
Jack O. Burns, Judd Bowman, Tzu-Ching Chang +8
FarView is a proposed low frequency radio interferometer for deployment on the lunar far side, enabled by the Moon's radio quiet environment. Operating over 1-50 MHz inaccessible f…