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The CHIME/FRB Outriggers: Commissioning the Hat Creek Outrigger and an Updated Calibration Scheme for Mitigating RFI
Mattias Lazda, Nina V. Gusinskaia, Gurman Sachdeva +25
This work presents commissioning of the Hat Creek Outrigger (HCO), a dual-polarization 256-element radio interferometer that is part of the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Expe…
Overview of the Canadian Hydrogen Observatory and Radio Transient Detector (CHORD) Project
The CHORD Collaboration, Kevin Bandura, Leonid Belostotski +49
The Canadian Hydrogen Observatory and Radio-transient Detector (CHORD) is a next-generation wideband radio interferometer currently being constructed and commissioned at the Domini…
A VLBI Calibrator Grid at 600MHz for Fast Radio Transient Localizations with CHIME/FRB Outriggers
Shion Andrew, Calvin Leung, Alexander Li +15
The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment Fast Radio Burst (CHIME/FRB) Project has a new VLBI Outrigger at the Green Bank Observatory (GBO), which forms a 3300km baseline…
Beam Maps of the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) Measured with a Drone
Will Tyndall, Alex Reda, J. Richard Shaw +14
We present beam measurements of the CHIME telescope using a radio calibration source deployed on a drone payload. During test flights, the pulsing calibration source and the telesc…
CHIME/FRB Outriggers: KKO Station System and Commissioning Results
Adam E. Lanman, Shion Andrew, Mattias Lazda +43
Localizing fast radio bursts (FRBs) to their host galaxies is an essential step to better understanding their origins and using them as cosmic probes. The CHIME/FRB Outrigger progr…
TONE: A CHIME/FRB Outrigger Pathfinder for localizations of Fast Radio Bursts using Very Long Baseline Interferometry
Pranav Sanghavi, Calvin Leung, Kevin Bandura +13
The sensitivity and field of view of the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) has enabled its fast radio burst (FRB) backend to detect thousands of FRBs. However,…
Antenna characterization for the HIRAX experiment
Emily R. Kuhn, Benjamin R. B. Saliwanchik, Kevin Bandura +24
The Hydrogen Intensity and Real-time Analysis eXperiment (HIRAX) aims to improve constraints on the dark energy equation of state through measurements of large-scale structure at h…
Characterization of the John A. Galt telescope for radio holography with CHIME
Alex Reda, Tristan Pinsonneault-Marotte, Meiling Deng +21
The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) will measure the 21 cm emission of astrophysical neutral hydrogen to probe large scale structure at redshifts z=0.8-2.5.…
Using the Sun to Measure the Primary Beam Response of the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment
CHIME Collaboration, Mandana Amiri, Kevin Bandura +27
We present a beam pattern measurement of the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) made using the Sun as a calibration source. As CHIME is a pure drift scan instru…
An Overview of CHIME, the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment
The CHIME Collaboration, Mandana Amiri, Kevin Bandura +40
The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) is a drift scan radio telescope operating across the 400-800 MHz band. CHIME is located at the Dominion Radio Astrophysic…
A clock stabilization system for CHIME/FRB Outriggers
J. Mena-Parra, C. Leung, S. Cary +12
The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) has emerged as the prime telescope for detecting fast radio bursts (FRBs). CHIME/FRB Outriggers will be a dedicated very-…
The Hydrogen Intensity and Real-time Analysis eXperiment: 256-Element Array Status and Overview
Devin Crichton, Moumita Aich, Adam Amara +97
The Hydrogen Intensity and Real-time Analysis eXperiment (HIRAX) is a radio interferometer array currently in development, with an initial 256-element array to be deployed at the S…
Localizing FRBs through VLBI with the Algonquin Radio Observatory 10-m Telescope
Tomas Cassanelli, Calvin Leung, Mubdi Rahman +38
The CHIME/FRB experiment has detected thousands of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) due to its sensitivity and wide field of view; however, its low angular resolution prevents it from loca…
Mechanical and Optical Design of the HIRAX Radio Telescope
Benjamin R. B. Saliwanchik, Aaron Ewall-Wice, Devin Crichton +19
The Hydrogen Intensity and Real-time Analysis eXperiment (HIRAX) is a planned interferometric radio telescope array that will ultimately consist of 1024 close packed 6 m dishes tha…
Design and implementation of a noise temperature measurement system for the Hydrogen Intensity and Real-time Analysis eXperiment (HIRAX)
Emily R. Kuhn, Benjamin R. B. Saliwanchik, Maile Harris +24
This paper describes the design, implementation, and verification of a test-bed for determining the noise temperature of radio antennas operating between 400-800MHz. The requiremen…
The CHIME Pulsar Project: System Overview
Pulsar Collaboration, M. Amiri, K. M. Bandura +42
We present the design, implementation and performance of a digital backend constructed for the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) that uses accelerated computin…
Optimization of Radio Array Telescopes to Search for Fast RadioBursts
Jeffrey B Peterson, Kevin Bandura, Pranav Sanghavi
We present projected Fast Radio Burst detection rates from surveys carried out using a set of hypothetical close-packed array telescopes. The cost efficiency of such a survey falls…
LRP 2020 Whitepaper: The Canadian Hydrogen Observatory and Radio-transient Detector (CHORD)
K. Vanderlinde, K. Bandura, L. Belostotski +20
The Canadian Hydrogen Observatory and Radio-transient Detector (CHORD) is a next-generation radio telescope, proposed for construction to start immediately. CHORD is a pan-Canadian…
Research and Development for HI Intensity Mapping
Zeeshan Ahmed, David Alonso, Mustafa A. Amin +51
Development of the hardware, data analysis, and simulation techniques for large compact radio arrays dedicated to mapping the 21 cm line of neutral hydrogen gas has proven to be mo…
Packed Ultra-wideband Mapping Array (PUMA): A Radio Telescope for Cosmology and Transients
Kevin Bandura, Emanuele Castorina, Liam Connor +23
PUMA is a proposal for an ultra-wideband, low-resolution and transit interferometric radio telescope operating at . Its design is driven by six science goal…
Spectral Kurtosis Based RFI Mitigation for CHIME
Jacob Taylor, Nolan Denman, Kevin Bandura +5
We present the implementation of a spectral kurtosis based Radio Frequency Interference detection system on the CHIME instrument and its reduced-scale pathfinder. Our implementatio…
The CHIME Fast Radio Burst Project: System Overview
FRB Collaboration, M. Amiri, K. Bandura +49
The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) is a novel transit radio telescope operating across the 400-800-MHz band. CHIME is comprised of four 20-m x 100-m semi-cy…
Quantization bias for digital correlators
J. Mena-Parra, K. Bandura, M. A. Dobbs +2
In radio interferometry, the quantization process introduces a bias in the magnitude and phase of the measured correlations which translates into errors in the measurement of sourc…
CHIME FRB: An application of FFT beamforming for a radio telescope
C. Ng, K. Vanderlinde, A. Paradise +11
We have developed FFT beamforming techniques for the CHIME radio telescope, to search for and localize the astrophysical signals from Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) over a large instanta…