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An excess of emission in the dark cloud LDN 1111 with the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager
AMI Consortium, :, A. M. M. Scaife +13
We present observations of the Lynds' dark nebula LDN 1111 made at microwave frequencies between 14.6 and 17.2 GHz with the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI). We find emission in…
The Arcminute Microkelvin Imager
AMI Consortium, :, J. T. L. Zwart +57
The Arcminute Microkelvin Imager is a pair of interferometer arrays operating with six frequency channels spanning 13.9-18.2 GHz, with very high sensitivity to angular scales 30''-…
AMI limits on 15 GHz excess emission in northern HII regions
A. M. M. Scaife, N. Hurley-Walker, M. L. Davies +13
We present observations between 14.2 and 17.9 GHz of sixteen Galactic HII regions made with the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI). In conjunction with data from the literature at…
Some estimates of the source counts at Planck Surveyor frequencies, using the 9C survey at 15 GHz
E. M. Waldram, R. C. Bolton, G. G. Pooley +1
We have used multi-frequency follow-up observations of a sample of extragalactic sources from the 9C survey at 15 GHz to make deductions about the expected source population at hig…
Constraints on spinning dust towards Galactic targets with the VSA: a tentative detection of excess microwave emission towards 3C396
Anna Scaife, David A. Green, Richard A. Battye +18
We present results from observations made at 33 GHz with the Very Small Array (VSA) telescope towards potential candidates in the Galactic plane for spinning dust emission. In the…
Deep spectroscopy of 9C J1503+4528: a very young CSS radio source at z=0.521
K. J. Inskip, D. Lee, Garret Cotter +7
9C J1503+4528 is a very young CSS radio galaxy, with an age of order 10^4 years. This source is therefore an ideal laboratory for the study ofthe intrinsic host galaxy/IGM properti…
Non-Gaussianity in the Very Small Array CMB maps with Smooth-Goodness-of-fit tests
Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin, Antonio M. Aliaga, R. B. Barreiro +31
(Abridged) We have used the Rayner & Best (1989) smooth tests of goodness-of-fit to study the Gaussianity of the Very Small Array (VSA) data. Out of the 41 published VSA individual…
High-significance Sunyaev-Zel'dovich measurement: Abell 1914 seen with the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager
AMI Collaboration, R. Barker, P. Biddulph +47
We report the first detection of a Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (S-Z) decrement with the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI). We have made commissioning observations towards the cluster A1914…
CMB observations from the CBI and VSA: A comparison of coincident maps and parameter estimation methods
N. Rajguru, S. T. Myers, R. A. Battye +32
We present coincident observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) from the Very Small Array (VSA) and Cosmic Background Imager (CBI) telescopes. The consistency of the fu…
Source subtraction for the extended Very Small Array and 33-GHz source count estimates
Kieran A. Cleary, Angela C. Taylor, Elizabeth Waldram +16
We describe the source subtraction strategy and observations for the extended Very Small Array, a CMB interferometer operating at 33 GHz. A total of 453 sources were monitored at 3…
The 9C Survey: a deeper source count at 15 GHz
E. M. Waldram, G. G. Pooley
Foreground radio sources are a major contaminant for centimetre-wave cosmic microwave background (CMB) measurements and the 9C survey was set up as part of the observing strategy o…
Very Small Array observations of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in nearby galaxy clusters
Katy Lancaster, Ricardo Genova-Santos, Nelson Falcon +10
We present VSA observations (~34GHz) on scales ~20 arcmin towards a complete, X-ray-flux-limited sample of seven clusters at redshift z<0.1. Four have significant SZ detections in…
Cosmological parameter estimation using Very Small Array data out to l=1500
Rafael Rebolo, Richard A. Battye, Pedro Carreira +29
We estimate cosmological parameters using data obtained by the Very Small Array (VSA) in its extended configuration, in conjunction with a variety of other CMB data and external pr…
High sensitivity measurements of the CMB power spectrum with the extended Very Small Array
Clive Dickinson, Richard A. Battye, Kieran Cleary +29
We present deep Ka-band ( GHz) observations of the CMB made with the extended Very Small Array (VSA). This configuration produces a naturally weighted synthesized FWHM…
Estimating the bispectrum of the Very Small Array data
Sarah Smith, Graca Rocha, Anthony Challinor +30
We estimate the bispectrum of the Very Small Array data from the compact and extended configuration observations released in December 2002, and compare our results to those obtaine…
Searching for non-Gaussianity in the VSA data
Richard Savage, Richard A. Battye, Pedro Carreira +28
We have tested Very Small Array (VSA) observations of three regions of sky for the presence of non-Gaussianity, using high-order cumulants, Minkowski functionals, a wavelet-based t…
9C: A Survey of Radio Sources at 15 GHz with the Ryle Telescope
Elizabeth M. Waldram, Guy G. Pooley, Keith J. B. Grainge +4
The fields chosen for the first observations of the cosmic microwave background with the Very Small Array have been surveyed with the Ryle Telescope at 15 GHz. We have covered thre…
Cosmological parameter estimation and Bayesian model comparison using VSA data
Anze Slosar, Pedro Carreira, Kieran Cleary +28
We constrain the basic comological parameters using the first observations by the Very Small Array (VSA) in its extended configuration, together with existing cosmic microwave back…
The CMB power spectrum out to l=1400 measured by the VSA
Keith Grainge, Pedro Carreira, Kieran Cleary +28
We have observed the cosmic microwave background (CMB) in three regions of sky using the Very Small Array (VSA) in an extended configuration with antennas of beamwidth 2 degrees at…
First results from the Very Small Array -- II. Observations of the CMB
Angela C. Taylor, Pedro Carreira, Kieran Cleary +24
We have observed the cosmic microwave background temperature fluctuations in eight fields covering three separated areas of sky with the Very Small Array at 34 GHz. A total area of…
First results from the Very Small Array -- III. The CMB power spectrum
Paul F. Scott, Pedro Carreira, Kieran Cleary +23
We present the power spectrum of the fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background detected by the Very Small Array (VSA) in its first season of observations in its compact confi…
First results from the Very Small Array -- I. Observational methods
Robert A. Watson, Pedro Carreira, Kieran Cleary +23
The Very Small Array (VSA) is a synthesis telescope designed to image faint structures in the cosmic microwave background on degree and sub-degree angular scales. The VSA has key d…
First results from the Very Small Array -- IV. Cosmological parameter estimation
Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin, Rafael Rebolo, Pedro Carreira +24
We investigate the constraints on basic cosmological parameters set by the first compact-configuration observations of the Very Small Array (VSA), and other cosmological data sets,…
Quasars from the 7C Survey - I:sample selection and radio maps
Julia Riley, Steve Rawlings, Richard McMahon +4
We describe the selection of candidate radio-loud quasars obtained by cross-matching radio source positions from the low-frequency (151 MHz) 7C survey with optical positions from f…