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We examine the prospects for observations of CMB anisotropy with the SKA; we discuss the advantages of interferometric SKA imaging, observing strategies, calibration issues and the achievable sensitivity. Although the SKA will probably…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ravi Subrahmanyan , R. D. Ekers

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a planned radio interferometer of unprecedented scale that will revolutionize low-frequency radio astronomy when completed. In particular, one of its core science drivers is the systematic mapping of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-11 Nichole Barry , Gianni Bernardi , Bradley Greig , Nicholas Kern , Florent Mertens

The requirements on the stability of the frequency reference in the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), as a radio astronomy interferometer, are given in terms of maximum accepted degree of coherence loss caused by the instability of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-18 Bassem Alachkar , Althea Wilkinson , Keith Grainge

The short-spacing problem describes the inherent inability of radio-interferometric arrays to measure the integrated flux and structure of diffuse emission associated with extended sources. New interferometric arrays, such as SKA, require…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 S. Faridani , F. Bigiel , L. Floeer , J. Kerp , S. Stanimirovic

We use the Fisher matrix formalism and semi-numerical simulations to derive quantitative predictions of the constraints that power spectrum measurements on next-generation interferometers, such as the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-26 Aaron Ewall-Wice , Jacqueline Hewitt , Andrei Mesinger , Joshua S. Dillon , Adrian Liu , Jonathan Pober

Radio astronomy is transitioning to a big-data era due to the emerging generation of radio interferometric (RI) telescopes, such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which will acquire massive volumes of data. In this article we review…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 Xiaohao Cai , Luke Pratley , Jason D. McEwen

We report on the detection of source noise in the time domain at 162MHz with the Murchison Widefield Array. During the observation the flux of our target source Virgo A (M87) contributes only $\sim$1\% to the total power detected by any…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-14 John Morgan , Ron Ekers

Angular broadening observations of compact radio sources provide a powerful method for probing the solar corona and solar wind. Such observations enable studies of the phase structure function, turbulence amplitude, intermediate-scale…

The optical interferometry has been widely used in various high precision applications. Usually, the minimum precision of an interferometry is limited by various technique noises in practice. To suppress such kind of noises, we propose a…

Optics · Physics 2018-06-20 Chen Fang , Jing-Zheng Huang , Guihua Zeng

In super-resolution it is necessary to locate with high precision point sources from noisy observations of the spectrum of the signal at low frequencies capped by f_c. In the case when the point sources are positive and are located on a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Veniamin I. Morgenshtern

We present preliminary results from a statistical survey of compact structure in faint radio sources. Around 1000 sources from the VLA FIRST survey (flux densities larger than 1 mJy at 1.4 GHz) have been observed with the single-baseline…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. W. Porcas , W. Alef , T. Ghosh , C. J. Salter , S. T. Garrington

Historically, the resolution of optical imaging systems was dictated by diffraction, and the Rayleigh criterion was long considered an unsurpassable limit. In superresolution microscopy, this limit is overcome by manipulating the emission…

The design of an interferometric array should allow optimal instrumental response regarding all possible source positions, times of integration and scientific goals. It should also take into account constraints such as forbidden regions on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Boone

We investigate the feasibility of detecting and probing various components of the ionized intergalactic medium (IGM) and their turbulent properties at radio frequencies through observations of scatter broadening of compact sources. There is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-01 J. Y. Koay , J. -P. Macquart

We have used the Very Large Array to search for compact milliarcsecond-size radio sources near methanol masers in high-mass star-forming regions. Such sources are required for Very Long Baseline Interferometry phase-referencing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. Xu , M. J. Reid , K. M. Menten , X. W. Zheng

We study the wave optics features of gravitational microlensing by a binary lens composed of a planet and a parent star. In this system, the source star near the caustic line produces a pair of images in which they can play the role of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Ahmad Mehrabi , Sohrab Rahvar

Superresolution refers to the estimation of parameters of an image with an accuracy beyond standard classical techniques such as direct detection. In seminal work by Lu et al., a measurement to estimate the separation distance of two point…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-30 Hari Krovi

An extremely large void and a cosmic texture are two possible explanations for the cold spot seen in the cosmic microwave background. We investigate how well these two hypotheses can be tested with weak lensing of 21-cm fluctuations from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-24 Ely D. Kovetz , Marc Kamionkowski

In this work we present a new algorithm for data deconvolution that allows the retrieval of the target function with super-resolution with a simple approach that after a precis e measurement of the instrument response function (IRF), the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Sandra Martínez , Oscar E. Martínez

Stellar amplitude interferometry is limited by the need to have optical distances fixed and known to a fraction of the wavelength. We suggest reviving intensity interferometry, which requires hardware which is many orders of magnitude less…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Aviv Ofir , Erez N. Ribak