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Lossless compression of simulated radio interferometric visibilities
A. R. Offringa, R. J. van Weeren
Context. Processing radio interferometric data often requires storing forward-predicted model data. In direction-dependent calibration, these data may have a volume an order of mag…
The impact of lunar topography on the 21-cm power spectrum for grid-based arrays : Insights for the Dark-ages EXplorer (DEX)
S. Ghosh, L. V. E. Koopmans, C. Brinkerink +17
The Dark Ages (DA) provides a crucial window into the physics of the infant Universe, with the 21-cm signal offering the only direct probe for mapping out the three-dimensional dis…
Scalable and robust wide-field facet calibration with LOFAR's longest baselines
J. M. G. H. J. de Jong, L. Veefkind, R. J. van Weeren +8
Recent work has successfully achieved sub-arcsecond wide-field imaging with high-band observations from the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR). However, the scalability of this work remai…
Robust direction-dependent gain-calibration of beam-modelling errors far from the target field
S. A. Brackenhoff, A. R. Offringa, M. Mevius +8
Many astronomical questions require deep, wide-field observations at low radio frequencies. Phased arrays like LOFAR and SKA-low are designed for this, but have inherently unstable…
Square Kilometre Array Science Data Challenge 3a: foreground removal for an EoR experiment
A. Bonaldi, P. Hartley, R. Braun +179
We present and analyse the results of the Science data challenge 3a (SDC3a, https://sdc3.skao.int/challenges/foregrounds), an EoR foreground-removal community-wide exercise organis…
Into the depths: Unveiling ELAIS-N1 with LOFAR's deepest sub-arcsecond wide-field images
J. M. G. H. J. de Jong, R. J. van Weeren, F. Sweijen +11
We present the deepest wide-field 115-166 MHz image at sub-arcsecond resolution spanning an area of 2.5 by 2.5 degrees centred at the ELAIS-N1 deep field. To achieve this, we impro…