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most citedThe LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey - I. Survey Description and Preliminary Data Release

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astro-ph.CO2017★ 65 cited

MeerKLASS: MeerKAT Large Area Synoptic Survey

Mario G. Santos, Michelle Cluver, Matt Hilton +35

We discuss the ground-breaking science that will be possible with a wide area survey, using the MeerKAT telescope, known as MeerKLASS (MeerKAT Large Area Synoptic Survey). The curr…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 2 cited

Fully-Bayesian stacking in the presence of confusion

Song Chen, Jonathan T. L. Zwart, Mario G. Santos

Multi-wavelength astronomical studies brings a wealth of science within reach. One way to achieve a cross-wavelength analysis is via `stacking', i.e. combining precise positional i…

astro-ph.CO2017

MERGHERS: An SZ-selected cluster survey with MeerKAT

Kenda Knowles, Andrew Baker, Kaustuv Basu +20

The MeerKAT telescope will be one of the most sensitive radio arrays in the pre-SKA era. Here we discuss a low-frequency SZ-selected cluster survey with MeerKAT, the MeerKAT Extend…

astro-ph.CO2017

A MeerKAT view on galaxy clusters

G. Bernardi, T. Venturi, R. Cassano +8

Almost two decades of observations of radio emission in galaxy clusters have proven the existence of relativistic particles and magnetic fields that generate extended synchrotron e…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 121 cited

Bayesian constraints on the global 21-cm signal from the Cosmic Dawn

G. Bernardi, J. T. L. Zwart, D. Price +7

The birth of the first luminous sources and the ensuing epoch of reionization are best studied via the redshifted 21-cm emission line, the signature of the first two imprinting the…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 250 cited

LOFAR 150-MHz observations of the Boötes field: Catalogue and Source Counts

W. L. Williams, R. J. van Weeren, H. J. A. Röttgering +32

We present the first wide area (19 deg), deep ( μJy beam), high resolution ( arcsec) LOFAR High Band Antenna image of the Boötes field ma…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 13 cited

The Q/U Imaging ExperimenT: Polarization Measurements of the Galactic Plane at 43 and 95 GHz

QUIET Collaboration, T. M. Ruud, U. Fuskeland +39

We present polarization observations of two Galactic plane fields centered on Galactic coordinates (l,b)=(0 deg,0 deg) and (329 deg, 0 deg) at Q- (43 GHz) and W-band (95 GHz), cove…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 14 cited

Far beyond stacking: Fully bayesian constraints on sub-microJy radio source populations over the XMM-LSS-VIDEO field

Jonathan T. L. Zwart, Mario Santos, Matt J. Jarvis

Measuring radio source counts is critical for characterizing new extragalactic populations, brings a wealth of science within reach and will inform forecasts for SKA and its pathfi…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 26 cited

The star-formation history of mass-selected galaxies from the VIDEO survey

Jonathan T. L. Zwart, Matt J. Jarvis, Roger P. Deane +5

We measure star-formation rates (SFRs) and specific SFRs (SSFRs) of Ks-selected galaxies from the VIDEO survey by stacking 1.4-GHz Very Large Array data. We split the sample, which…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 98 cited

Second Season QUIET Observations: Measurements of the CMB Polarization Power Spectrum at 95 GHz

QUIET Collaboration, D. Araujo, C. Bischoff +48

The Q/U Imaging ExperimenT (QUIET) has observed the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at 43 and 95GHz. The 43-GHz results have been published in QUIET Collaboration et al. (2011),…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 349 cited

The VISTA Deep Extragalactic Observations (VIDEO) Survey

Matt J. Jarvis, D. G. Bonfield, V. A. Bruce +25

In this paper we describe the first data release of the the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) Deep Extragalactic Observations (VIDEO) survey. VIDEO is a ~…

astro-ph.CO2011

Non-standard morphological relic patterns in the cosmic microwave background

Joe Zuntz, James P. Zibin, Caroline Zunckel +1

Statistically anomalous signals in the microwave background have been extensively studied in general in multipole space, and in real space mainly for circular and other simple patt…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 20 cited

Bayesian analysis of weak gravitational lensing and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich data for six galaxy clusters

Natasha Hurley-Walker, Sarah Bridle, Eduardo S. Cypriano +19

We present an analysis of observations made with the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI) and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) of six galaxy clusters in a redshift range of…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 10 cited

Parameterization Effects in the analysis of AMI Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Observations

The AMI Consortium, :, Malak Olamaie +17

Most Sunyaev--Zel'dovich (SZ) and X-ray analyses of galaxy clusters try to constrain the cluster total mass and/or gas mass using parameterised models and assumptions of spherical…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 10 cited

A blind detection of a large, complex, Sunyaev--Zel'dovich structure

AMI Consortium, :, T. W. Shimwell +58

We present an interesting Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) detection in the first of the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI) 'blind', degree-square fields to have been observed down to our t…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 54 cited

10C Survey of Radio Sources at 15.7 GHz: I - Observing, mapping and source extraction

Thomas M. O. Franzen, Matthew L. Davies, Elizabeth M. Waldram +14

We have observed an area of approximatley 27 deg^2 to an rms noise level of less than 0.2 mJy at 15.7 GHz, using the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager Large Array. These observations co…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 52 cited

10C Survey of Radio Sources at 15.7 GHz: II - First Results

Matthew L. Davies, Thomas M. O. Franzen, Elizabeth M. Waldram +15

The first results from the Tenth Cambridge (10C) Survey of Radio Sources, carried out using the AMI Large Array (LA) at an observing frequency of 15.7 GHz, are presented. The surve…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 99 cited

First Season QUIET Observations: Measurements of CMB Polarization Power Spectra at 43 GHz in the Multipole Range 25 <= ell <= 475

QUIET Collaboration, C. Bischoff, A. Brizius +48

The Q/U Imaging ExperimenT (QUIET) employs coherent receivers at 43GHz and 95GHz, operating on the Chajnantor plateau in the Atacama Desert in Chile, to measure the anisotropy in t…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 30 cited

Sunyaev-Zel'dovich observation of the Bullet-like cluster Abell 2146 with the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager

Carmen Rodriguez-Gonzalvez, Malak Olamaie, Matthew L. Davies +18

We present 13.9-18.2 GHz observations of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect towards Abell 2146 using the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI). The cluster is detected with a peak SNR…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 16 cited

Sunyaev-Zel'dovich observations of galaxy clusters out to the virial radius with the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager

Jonathan T. L. Zwart, Farhan Feroz, Matthew L. Davies +15

We present observations using the Small Array of the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI; 14-18 GHz) of four Abell and three MACS clusters spanning 0.171-0.686 in redshift. We detect…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 40 cited

Microwave observations of spinning dust emission in NGC6946

Anna M. M. Scaife, Bojan Nikolic, David A. Green +16

We report new cm-wave measurements at five frequencies between 15 and 18GHz of the continuum emission from the reportedly anomalous "region 4" of the nearby galaxy NGC6946. We find…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 1 cited

Orthographic Correlations in Astrophysics

Joe Zuntz, Thomas G. Zlosnik, Caroline Zunckel +1

We analyze correlations between the first letter of the name of an author and the number of citations their papers receive. We look at simple mean counts, numbers of highly-cited p…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 16 cited

Follow-up observations at 16 and 33 GHz of extragalactic sources from WMAP 3-year data: II - Flux-density variability

Thomas M. O. Franzen, Matthew L. Davies, Rod D. Davies +22

Using the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI) at 16 GHz and the Very Small Array (VSA) at 33 GHz to make follow-up observations of sources in the New Extragalactic WMAP Point Source…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 29 cited

Follow-up observations at 16 and 33 GHz of extragalactic sources from WMAP 3-year data: I - Spectral properties

Matthew L. Davies, Thomas M. O. Franzen, Rod D. Davies +22

We present follow-up observations of 97 point sources from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) 3-year data, contained within the New Extragalactic WMAP Point Source (NE…