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LWA1 is a new radio telescope operating in the frequency range 10-88 MHz, located in central New Mexico. The telescope consists of 258 pairs of dipole-type antennas whose outputs are individually digitized and formed into beams.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 S. W. Ellingson , G. B. Taylor , J. Craig , J. Hartman , J. Dowell , C. N. Wolfe , T. E. Clarke , B. C. Hicks , N. E. Kassim , P. S. Ray , L. J. Rickard , F. K. Schinzel , K. W. Weiler

We follow up on a report by Vacca et al. (2018) of 28 candidate large-scale diffuse synchrotron sources in an 8{\deg}$\times$8{\deg} area of the sky (centred at RA 5h0m0s Dec 5{\deg}48'0''). These sources were originally observed at 1.4 GHz…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-27 Torrance Hodgson , Melanie Johnston-Hollitt , Benajmin McKinley , Tessa Vernstrom , Valentina Vacca

We have studied radio haloes and relics in nine merging galaxy clusters using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). The images used for this study were obtained from the GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky MWA (GLEAM) Survey which was carried…

Following the results of our previous low frequency searches for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), directed toward the Galactic Centre and the Orion Molecular Cloud (Galactic Anticentre), we…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-08 Chenoa D. Tremblay , Steven J. Tingay

We present the first observational limits on the predicted synchrotron signals from particle Dark Matter annihilation models in dwarf spheroidal galaxies at radio frequencies below 1 GHz. We use a combination of survey data from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Arpan Kar , Sourav Mitra , Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya , Tirthankar Roy Choudhury , Steven Tingay

LOFAR, the Low Frequency Array, is a large radio telescope consisting about 100 soccer field sized antenna stations spread over a region of 400 km in diameter. It will operate in the frequency range from ~10 to 240 MHz, with a resolution at…

Millimeter-wave (MMW) imaging has a wide prospect in application of concealed weapons detection. We propose a circular-arc multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) array scheme with uniformly spaced transmit and receive antennas along the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-01 Shiyong Li , Shuoguang Wang , Guoqiang Zhao , Houjun Sun

The CHARA Array is a six 1-m telescope optical/IR interferometric array located on Mount Wilson California, designed and built by the Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy of Georgia State University. In this paper we describe the…

We present the third data release for the Galactic and Extragalactic All-Sky Murchison Widefield Array eXtended (GLEAM-X) survey, covering = 3800 deg2 of the southern Galactic Plane (GP) with \ang{233} < l < \ang{44} and |b| < \ang{11}…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-10 S. Mantovanini , N. Hurley-Walker , K. Ross , S. W. Duchesne , G. Anderson , T. J. Galvin

We present the first survey of radio frequency interference (RFI) at the future site of the low frequency Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO), that both temporally and spatially resolves the RFI.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Steven Tingay , Marcin Sokolowski , Randall Wayth , Daniel Ung

In this short paper we outline the case for a small radio telescope array in the southern hemisphere with operations dedicated to rapid follow-up and monitoring of astrophysical transients. We argue that the science harvest from such a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-08 Rob Fender , Assaf Horesh , Phil Charles , Patrick Woudt , James Miller-Jones , Joe Bright

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

We search data from the GLEAM-X survey, obtained with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) in 2020, for the presence of radio frequency interference from distant Earth-orbiting satellites, in the form of unintended emissions similar to those…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 S. J. Tingay , N. Hurley-Walker , K. Ross , T. J. Galvin , J. Morgan , B. Venville

Advanced millimeter-wave software-defined array (SDA) platforms, or testbeds at affordable costs and high performance are essential for the wireless community. In this paper, we present a low-cost, portable, and programmable SDA that allows…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-19 Ashwini Pondeycherry Ganesh , Anthony Perre , Alphan Sahin , Ismail Guvenc , Brian A. Floyd

We test the bandpass smoothness performance of two prototype Square Kilometre Array (SKA) SKA1-Low log-periodic dipole antennas, the SKALA2 and SKALA3 (`SKA Log-periodic Antenna'), and the current dipole from the Murchison Widefield Array…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Cathryn M. Trott , Eloy de Lera Acedo , Randall B. Wayth , Nicolas Fagnoni , Adrian T. Sutinjo , Brett Wakley , Chris Ivan B. Punzalan

The redshifted cosmological 21 cm signal emitted by neutral hydrogen during the first billion years of the universe is much fainter relative to other galactic and extragalactic radio emissions, posing a great challenge towards detection of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-26 J. Kariuki Chege , C. H. Jordan , C. Lynch , C. M. Trott , J. L. B. Line , B. Pindor , S. Yoshiura

The next-generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) is an astronomical observatory planned to operate at centimeter wavelengths (25 to 0.26 centimeters, corresponding to a frequency range extending from 1.2 GHz to 116 GHz). The observatory will be…