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The arrival of the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) will revitalise all aspects of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) astronomy at the lower frequencies. In the last decade there have been huge strides towards routinely achieving high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 Maria J. Rioja , Richard Dodson , Gabor Orosz , Hiroshi Imai , Sandor Frey

We report on laboratory test results of the Compact Water Vapor Radiometer (CWVR) prototype for the NSF's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), a five-channel design centered around the 22 GHz water vapor line. Fluctuations in precipitable…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-20 Ajay Gill , Robert J. Selina , Bryan J. Butler

The Very Large Array (VLA) has been used in C-configuration to map an area \~0.3 square degrees at 1.4 GHz with 5sigma sensitivities of 0.305, 0.325, 0.380 and 0.450 mJy/beam over four equal subareas. Radio properties are presented for 62…

Contamination due to foregrounds (Galactic and Extra-galactic), calibration errors and ionospheric effects pose major challenges in detection of the cosmic 21 cm signal in various Epoch of Reionization (EoR) experiments. We present the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-15 B. K. Gehlot , L. V. E. Koopmans , A. G. de Bruyn , S. Zaroubi , M. A. Brentjens , K. M. B. Asad , M. Hatef , V. Jelic , M. Mevius , A. R. Offringa , V. N. Pandey , S. Yatawatta

The low-frequency sky below $\sim$15 MHz (20 m) is obscured by the Earth's ionosphere, the layer of charged particles above the neutral atmosphere. Single spacecraft have made measurements in this band, but cannot achieve high or even…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-15 Mary Knapp , Lenny Paritsky , Ekaterina Kononov , Melodie M. Kao

Bistatic radar measurements offer unique spatial diversity and enhanced target characterization capabilities, rendering them increasingly vital for contemporary sensing application research. The reliability of such measurements is…

Modern radio telescopes are routinely reaching depths where normal starforming galaxies are the dominant observed population. Realising the potential of radio as a tracer of star formation and black hole activity over cosmic time involves…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-01 I. Heywood , C. L. Hale , M. J. Jarvis , S. Makhathini , J. A. Peters , M. L. L. Sebokolodi , O. M. Smirnov

Phase referencing is a standard calibration procedure in radio interferometry. It allows to detect weak sources by using quasi-simultaneous observations of closeby sources acting as calibrators. Therefore, it is assumed that, for each…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-25 I. Marti-Vidal , J. C. Guirado , S. Jimenez-Monferrer , J. M. Marcaide

The Very Large Array Sky Survey (VLASS) is observing the entire sky north of $-40^{\circ}$ in the S-band ($2<\nu<4\,$GHz), with the highest angular resolution ($2''.5$) of any all-sky radio continuum survey to date. VLASS will cover its…

Context: Phase referencing is a standard calibration technique in radio interferometry, particularly suited for the detection of weak sources close to the sensitivity limits of the interferometers. However, effects from a changing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 I. Marti-Vidal , E. Ros , M. A. Perez Torres , J. C. Guirado , S. Jimenez-Monferrer , J. M. Marcaide

We present the results of a multi-scale analysis of TEC fluctuations using a roughly five-hour observation of the bright radio source Virgo A with the Very Large Array (VLA) at 74 MHz in its B configuration. Our analysis combines data…

Space Physics · Physics 2012-05-08 Joseph Helmboldt , Huib Intema

The radio astronomy community is currently building a number of phased array telescopes. The calibration of these telescopes is hampered by the fact that covariances of signals from closely spaced antennas are sensitive to noise coupling…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-15 Stefan J. Wijnholds , Alle-Jan van der Veen

Phased arrays, commonly used in IEEE 802.11ad and 5G radios, are capable of focusing radio frequency signals in a specific direction or a spatial region. Beamforming achieves such directional or spatial concentration of signals and enables…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Nitin Jonathan Myers , Robert W. Heath

Radio interferometers are phased arrays producing high-resolution images from the covariance matrix of measurements. Calibration of such instruments is necessary and is a critical task. This is how the estimation of instrumental errors is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-26 Yassine Mhiri , Mohammed Nabil El Korso , Arnaud Breloy , Pascal Larzabal

The following paper provides a multi-band channel measurement analysis on the frequency range (FR)3. This study focuses on the FR3 low frequencies 6.5 GHz and 8.75 GHz with a setup tailored to the context of integrated sensing and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Roberto Bomfin , Ahmad Bazzi , Hao Guo , Hyeongtaek Lee , Marco Mezzavilla , Sundeep Rangan , Junil Choi , Marwa Chafii

Residual calibration errors are difficult to predict in interferometric radio polarimetry because they depend on the employed observational calibration strategy, encompassing the Stokes vector of the calibrator and parallactic angle…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 C. A. Hales

We are pursuing a project to build a database of phase calibration sources suitable for Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT). Here we present the first release of 45 low frequency calibration sources at 235 MHz and 610 MHz. These…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 Dharam V. Lal , Shilpa S. Dubal , Sachin S. Sherkar

Calibrated data for 65 flat-spectrum extragalactic radio sources are presented at a wavelength of 850 microns covering a three-year period from April 1997. The data, obtained from the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope using the SCUBA camera in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 E. I. Robson , J. A. Stevens , T. Jenness

We report on the first detection of ionospheric disturbances caused by short repeated gamma-ray bursts from the magnetar SGR J1550-5418. Very low frequency (VLF) radio wave data obtained in South America clearly show sudden amplitude and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Y. T. Tanaka , J. P. Raulin , F. C. P. Bertoni , P. R. Fagundes , J. Chau , N. J. Schuch , M. Hayakawa , Y. Hobara , T. Terasawa , T. Takahashi

Radio astronomy observations at frequencies below 10~MHz could provide valuable science, such as measuring the cosmic dark age signal in the redshifted 21~cm hydrogen absorption line, detecting exoplanetary auroral emissions which lead to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-26 Ekaterina Kononov , Mary Knapp