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most citedThe Murchison Widefield Array: the Square Kilometre Array Precursor at low radio frequencies

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astro-ph.IM2019★ 1.1k cited

First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. II. Array and Instrumentation

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is a very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) array that comprises millimeter- and submillimeter-wavelength telescopes separated by distances comp…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 35 cited

Spectral energy distribution and radio halo of NGC 253 at low radio frequencies

A. D. Kapinska, L. Staveley-Smith, R. Crocker +67

We present new radio continuum observations of NGC253 from the Murchison Widefield Array at frequencies between 76 and 227 MHz. We model the broadband radio spectral energy distrib…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 12 cited

A Matched Filter Technique For Slow Radio Transient Detection And First Demonstration With The Murchison Widefield Array

L. Feng, R. Vaulin, J. N. Hewitt +30

Many astronomical sources produce transient phenomena at radio frequencies, but the transient sky at low frequencies (<300 MHz) remains relatively unexplored. Blind surveys with ne…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 29 cited

Wavelet-Based Characterization of Small-Scale Solar Emission Features at Low Radio Frequencies

Akshay Suresh, Rohit Sharma, Divya Oberoi +36

Low radio frequency solar observations using the Murchison Widefield Array have recently revealed the presence of numerous weak, short-lived and narrow-band emission features, even…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 557 cited

GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky Murchison Widefield Array (GLEAM) survey I: A low-frequency extragalactic catalogue

Natasha Hurley-Walker, Joseph R. Callingham, Paul J. Hancock +40

Using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), the low-frequency Square Kilometre Array (SKA1 LOW) precursor located in Western Australia, we have completed the GaLactic and Extragalac…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 20 cited

Delay Spectrum with Phase-Tracking Arrays: Extracting the HI power spectrum from the Epoch of Reionization

Sourabh Paul, Shiv K. Sethi, Miguel F. Morales +51

The Detection of redshifted 21 cm emission from the epoch of reionization (EoR) is a challenging task owing to strong foregrounds that dominate the signal. In this paper, we propos…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 170 cited

First Season MWA EoR Power Spectrum Results at Redshift 7

A. P. Beardsley, B. J. Hazelton, I. S. Sullivan +63

The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) has collected hundreds of hours of Epoch of Reionization (EoR) data and now faces the challenge of overcoming foreground and systematic contamin…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 80 cited

Low frequency observations of linearly polarized structures in the interstellar medium near the south Galactic pole

Emil Lenc, B. M. Gaensler, X. H. Sun +76

We present deep polarimetric observations at 154 MHz with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), covering 625 deg^2 centered on RA=0 h, Dec=-27 deg. The sensitivity available in our…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 34 cited

A High Reliability Survey of Discrete Epoch of Reionization Foreground Sources in the MWA EoR0 Field

P. A. Carroll, J. Line, M. F. Morales +61

Detection of the Epoch of Reionization HI signal requires a precise understanding of the intervening galaxies and AGN, both for instrumental calibration and foreground removal. We…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 11 cited

The radio spectral energy distribution of infrared-faint radio sources

A. Herzog, R. P. Norris, E. Middelberg +57

Infrared-faint radio sources (IFRS) are a class of radio-loud (RL) active galactic nuclei (AGN) at high redshifts (z > 1.7) that are characterised by their relative infrared faintn…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 18 cited

A Large Scale, Low Frequency Murchison Widefield Array Survey of Galactic HII regions between 260< l <\340

L. Hindson, M. Johnston-Hollitt, N. Hurley-Walker +40

We have compiled a catalogue of HII regions detected with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) between 72 and 231MHz. The multiple frequency bands provided by the MWA allow us ident…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 33 cited

Time-domain and spectral properties of pulsars at 154 MHz

M. E. Bell, Tara Murphy, S. Johnston +35

We present 154 MHz Murchison Widefield Array imaging observations and variability information for a sample of pulsars. Over the declination range we…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 72 cited

The Murchison Widefield Array 21 cm Power Spectrum Analysis Methodology

Daniel C. Jacobs, B. J. Hazelton, C. M. Trott +61

We present the 21 cm power spectrum analysis approach of the Murchison Widefield Array Epoch of Reionization project. In this paper, we compare the outputs of multiple pipelines fo…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 110 cited

First Limits on the 21 cm Power Spectrum during the Epoch of X-ray heating

A. Ewall-Wice, Joshua S. Dillon, J. N. Hewitt +62

We present first results from radio observations with the Murchison Widefield Array seeking to constrain the power spectrum of 21 cm brightness temperature fluctuations between the…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 59 cited

The 154 MHz radio sky observed by the Murchison Widefield Array: noise, confusion and first source count analyses

T. M. O. Franzen, C. A. Jackson, A. R. Offringa +30

We analyse a 154 MHz image made from a 12 h observation with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) to determine the noise contribution and behaviour of the source counts down to 30 m…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 41 cited

High-energy sources at low radio frequency: the Murchison Widefield Array view of Fermi blazars

M. Giroletti, F. Massaro, R. D'Abrusco +54

Low-frequency radio arrays are opening a new window for the study of the sky, both to study new phenomena and to better characterize known source classes. Being flat-spectrum sourc…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 80 cited

Limits on Fast Radio Bursts and other transient sources at 182 MHz using the Murchison Widefield Array

A. Rowlinson, M. E. Bell, T. Murphy +33

We present a survey for transient and variable sources, on timescales from 28 seconds to 1 year, using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) at 182 MHz. Down to a detection thr…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 18 cited

Beamforming Errors in Murchison Widefield Array Phased Array Antennas and their effects on Epoch of Reionization Science

A. R. Neben, J. N. Hewitt, R. F. Bradley +28

Accurate antenna beam models are critical for radio observations aiming to isolate the redshifted 21cm spectral line emission from the Dark Ages and the Epoch of Reionization and u…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 93 cited

The Importance of Wide-field Foreground Removal for 21 cm Cosmology: A Demonstration With Early MWA Epoch of Reionization Observations

J. C. Pober, B. J. Hazelton, A. P. Beardsley +66

In this paper we present observations, simulations, and analysis demonstrating the direct connection between the location of foreground emission on the sky and its location in cosm…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 53 cited

A search for Fast Radio Bursts at low frequencies with Murchison Widefield Array high time resolution imaging

S. J. Tingay, C. M. Trott, R. B. Wayth +26

We present the results of a pilot study search for Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) at low frequencies (139 - 170 MHz). We utilised MWA data obtai…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 25 cited

Quantifying ionospheric effects on time-domain astrophysics with the Murchison Widefield Array

Shyeh Tjing Loi, Tara Murphy, Martin E. Bell +39

Refraction and diffraction of incoming radio waves by the ionosphere induce time variability in the angular positions, peak amplitudes and shapes of radio sources, potentially comp…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 20 cited

Murchison Widefield Array Observations of Anomalous Variability: A Serendipitous Night-time Detection of Interplanetary Scintillation

D. L. Kaplan, S. J. Tingay, P. K. Manoharan +33

We present observations of high-amplitude rapid (2 s) variability toward two bright, compact extragalactic radio sources out of several hundred of the brightest radio sources in on…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 14 cited

Simultaneous Observations of Giant Pulses from the Crab Pulsar, with the Murchison Widefield Array and Parkes Radio Telescope: Implications for the Giant Pulse Emission Mechanism

S. I. Oronsaye, S. M. Ord, N. D. R. Bhat +28

We report on observations of giant pulses from the Crab pulsar performed simultaneously with the Parkes radio telescope and the incoherent combination of the Murchison Widefield Ar…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 89 cited

Broadband Spectral Modeling of the Extreme Gigahertz-Peaked Spectrum Radio Source PKS B0008-421

J. R. Callingham, B. M. Gaensler, R. D. Ekers +40

We present broadband observations and spectral modeling of PKS B0008-421, and identify it as an extreme gigahertz-peaked spectrum (GPS) source. PKS B0008-421 is characterized by th…