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We report the first astrophysical application of the technique of wide-field Interplanetary Scintillation (IPS) with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). This powerful technique allows us to identify and measure sub-arcsecond compact…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-10 R. Chhetri , J. Morgan , R. D. Ekers , J-P Macquart , E. M. Sadler , M. Giroletti , J. R. Callingham , S. J. Tingay

A first statistical detection of the 21-cm Epoch of Reionization (EoR) is on the horizon, as cosmological volumes of the Universe become accessible via the adoption of low-frequency interferometers. We explore the impact which non-identical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-01 A. Chokshi , N. Barry , J. L. B. Line , C. H. Jordan , B. Pindor , R. L. Webster

We present a demonstration version of a commensal pipeline for Fast Radio Burst (FRB) searches using a real-time incoherent beam from the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). The main science target of the pipeline are bright nearby FRBs from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-10 M. Sokolowski , I. S. Morrison , D. Price , G. Sleap , B. Crosse , A. Williams , L. Williams , C. James , B. W. Meyers , S. McSweeney , N. D. R. Bhat , G. Anderson

This work is part of ongoing efforts to detect Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) in a spectral window below 300 MHz. We used an image-based method based on the pilot study of Tingay et al. 2015, scaled up…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-06 Ian Kemp , Steven Tingay , Stuart Midgley , Daniel Mitchell

We present techniques for bridging the gap between idealized inverse covariance weighted quadratic estimation of 21 cm power spectra and the real-world challenges presented universally by interferometric observation. By carefully evaluating…

A spectral line image cube generated from 115 minutes of MWA data that covers a field of view of 400 sq. deg. around the Galactic Centre is used to perform the first Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (SETI) with the Murchison…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 S. J. Tingay , C. Tremblay , A. Walsh , R. Urquhart

Since the 1970s, much of traditional interferometric imaging has been built around variations of the CLEAN algorithm, in both terminology, methodology, and algorithm development. Recent developments in applying new algorithms from convex…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-29 Luke Pratley , Melanie Johnston-Hollitt , Jason D. McEwen

The properties of metallic systems with important and structured excitations at low energies, such as Cu, are challenging to describe with simple models like the plasmon pole approximation (PPA), and more accurate and sometimes prohibitive…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-26 Dario A. Leon , Andrea Ferretti , Daniele Varsano , Elisa Molinari , Claudia Cardoso

Recently, low frequency, broadband radio emission has been observed accompanying bright meteors by the Long Wavelength Array (LWA). The broadband spectra between 20 and 60 MHz were captured for several events, while the spectral index…

We present a targeted search for low-frequency (144--215\,MHz) FRB emission from five repeating FRBs using 23.3\,hr of archival data taken with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) Voltage Capture System (VCS) between 2014 September and 2020…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-30 J. Tian , G. E. Anderson , P. J. Hancock , J. C. A. Miller-Jones , M. Sokolowski , C. W. James , N. D. R. Bhat , N. A. Swainston , D. Ung , B. W. Meyers

The ambitious scientific goals of SKA require a matching capability for calibration of instrumental and atmospheric propagation contributions as functions of time, frequency and position. The development of novel calibration algorithms to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-01 María J. Rioja , Richard Dodson

The Earth's ionosphere refracts radio signals, shifting the apparent position of radio sources. Wide-field measurements with a radio interferometer can measure the ionospheric distortion. The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) has the ability…

Subtraction of astrophysical foreground contamination from "dirty" sky maps produced by simulated measurements of the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) has been performed by fitting a 3rd-order polynomial along the spectral dimension of each…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Judd D. Bowman , Miguel F. Morales , Jacqueline N. Hewitt

Deep imaging of structures from the Cosmic Dawn (CD) and the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) in five targeted fields is one of the highest priority scientific objectives for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). Selecting 'quiet' fields, which…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-14 Xueying Zhang , Qian Zheng , Linhui Wu , Quan Guo , Stefan W. Duchesne , Mengfan He , Huanyuan Shan , Xiang-ping Wu , Melanie Johnston-Hollitt , Feiyu Zhao , Qingyuan Ma

The compact configuration of Phase II of the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) consists of both a redundant subarray and pseudo-random baselines, offering unique opportunities to perform sky-model and redundant interferometric calibration.…

We provide the first in situ measurements of antenna element (tile) beam shapes of the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), a low radio-frequency interferometer and an SKA precursor. Most current MWA processing pipelines use an assumed beam…

A radio interferometer indirectly measures the intensity distribution of the sky over the celestial sphere. Since measurements are made over an irregularly sampled Fourier plane, synthesising an intensity image from interferometric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-18 Daniel Muscat

We present low-frequency spectral energy distributions of 60 known radio pulsars observed with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescope. We searched the GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky MWA (GLEAM) survey images for 200-MHz continuum…