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Progression of Digital-Receiver Architecture: From MWA to SKA1-Low,and beyond
Girish B. S., Harshavardhan Reddy S., Shiv Sethi +14
Backed by advances in digital electronics, signal processing, computation, and storage technologies, aperture arrays, which had strongly influenced the design of telescopes in the…
Antennas for low-frequency radio telescope of SKA
Agaram Raghunathan, Keerthipriya Satish, Arasi Sathyamurthy +4
The low-frequency radio telescope of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is being built by the international radio astronomical community to (i) have orders of magnitude higher sensit…
A Floating Octave Bandwidth Cone-Disc Antenna for Detection of Cosmic Dawn
Agaram Raghunathan, Ravi Subrahmanyan, N. Udaya Shankar +9
The critical component of radio astronomy radiometers built to detect redshifted 21-cm signals from Cosmic Dawn is the antenna element. We describe the design and performance of an…
SARAS 3 CD/EoR Radiometer: Design and Performance of the Receiver
Jishnu Nambissan T., Ravi Subrahmanyan, R. Somashekar +6
SARAS is an ongoing experiment aiming to detect the redshifted global 21-cm signal expected from Cosmic Dawn (CD) and the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). Standard cosmological models…
SARAS CD/EoR Radiometer: Design and performance of the Digital Correlation Spectrometer
B. S. Girish, K. S. Srivani, Ravi Subrahmanyan +6
In the currently accepted model for cosmic baryon evolution, Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization are significant times when first light from the first luminous objects emerge…
SARAS 2: A Spectral Radiometer for probing Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization through detection of the global 21 cm signal
Saurabh Singh, Ravi Subrahmanyan, N. Udaya Shankar +5
The global 21 cm signal from Cosmic Dawn (CD) and the Epoch of Reionization (EoR), at redshifts , probes the nature of first sources of radiation as well as physics of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
CHIPS: The Cosmological HI Power Spectrum Estimator
Cathryn M. Trott, Bart Pindor, Pietro Procopio +49
Detection of the cosmological neutral hydrogen signal from the Epoch of Reionization, and estimation of its basic physical parameters, is the principal scientific aim of many curre…
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…
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…
Ionospheric modelling using GPS to calibrate the MWA. 1: Comparison of first order ionospheric effects between GPS models and MWA observations
B. S. Arora, J. Morgan, S. M. Ord +56
We compare first order (refractive) ionospheric effects seen by the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) with the ionosphere as inferred from Global Positioning System (GPS) data. The f…
GLEAM: The GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky MWA survey
R. B. Wayth, E. Lenc, M. E. Bell +52
GLEAM, the GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky MWA survey, is a survey of the entire radio sky south of declination +25 deg at frequencies between 72 and 231 MHz, made with the Murc…
A Digital-Receiver for the Murchison Widefield Array
Thiagaraj Prabu, K. S. Srivani, D. Anish Roshi +55
An FPGA-based digital-receiver has been developed for a low-frequency imaging radio interferometer, the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). The MWA, located at the Murchison Radio-ast…
Foregrounds in Wide-Field Redshifted 21 cm Power Spectra
Nithyanandan Thyagarajan, Daniel C. Jacobs, Judd D. Bowman +61
Detection of 21~cm emission of HI from the epoch of reionization, at redshifts z>6, is limited primarily by foreground emission. We investigate the signatures of wide-field measure…
The Murchison Widefield Array Correlator
S. M. Ord, B. Crosse, D. Emrich +64
The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is a Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Precursor. The telescope is located at the Murchison Radio--astronomy Observatory (MRO) in Western Australia (…
The High Time and Frequency Resolution Capabilities of the Murchison Widefield Array
S. E. Tremblay, S. M. Ord, N. D. R. Bhat +37
The science cases for incorporating high time resolution capabilities into modern radio telescopes are as numerous as they are compelling. Science targets range from exotic sources…
The low-frequency environment of the Murchison Widefield Array: radio-frequency interference analysis and mitigation
A. R. Offringa, R. B. Wayth, N. Hurley-Walker +62
The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is a new low-frequency interferometric radio telescope built in Western Australia at one of the locations of the future Square Kilometre Array (…
The Murchison Widefield Array Commissioning Survey: A Low-Frequency Catalogue of 14,110 Compact Radio Sources over 6,100 Square Degrees
Natasha Hurley-Walker, John Morgan, Randall B. Wayth +49
We present the results of an approximately 6,100 square degree 104--196MHz radio sky survey performed with the Murchison Widefield Array during instrument commissioning between 201…
Study of Redshifted HI from the Epoch of Reionization with Drift scan
Sourabh Paul, Shiv K. Sethi, Ravi Subrahmanyan +37
The detection of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) in the redshifted 21-cm line is a challenging task. Here we formulate the detection of the EoR signal using the drift scan strategy…