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With SKA precursor and pathfinder operations in full swing, radio and (sub-)mm astronomy is entering the era of super big data. The big questions is how to make (sub-)mm and radio data available to the astronomical community, preferably…

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The previous generation of astronomical instruments tended to consist of single receivers in the focal point of one or more physical reflectors. Because of this, most astronomical data sets were small enough that the raw data could easily…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-30 Yan Guillaume Grange , Kevin Vinsen , Juan Carlos Guzman , José Alfredo Parra , Jan David Mol , Rosly Renil , Christoper Schollar

The "search for extraterrestrial intelligence" (SETI) commensal surveys aim to scan the sky to find possible technosignatures from the extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI). The mitigation of radio frequency interference (RFI) is an important…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-21 Yu-Chen Wang , Zhen-Zhao Tao , Zhi-Song Zhang , Cheqiu Lyu , Tingting Zhang , Tong-Jie Zhang , Dan Werthimer

Studying the universe through radio telescope observation is crucial. However, radio telescopes capture not only signals from the universe but also various interfering signals, known as Radio Frequency Interference (RFI). The presence of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-02 Fei Gu , Longfei Hao , Bo Liang , Song Feng , Shoulin Wei , Wei Dai , Yonghua Xu , Zhixuan Li , Yihang Dao

Transient radio sources are necessarily compact and usually are the locations of explosive or dynamic events, therefore offering unique opportunities for probing fundamental physics and astrophysics. In addition, short-duration transients…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 James M. Cordes , T. Joseph W. Lazio , M. A. McLaughlin

We present our second paper on the Allen Telescope Array Twenty-centimeter Survey (ATATS), a multi-epoch, ~700 sq. deg. radio image and catalog at 1.4 GHz. The survey is designed to detect rare, bright transients as well as to commission…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Steve Croft , Geoffrey C. Bower , Garrett Keating , Casey Law , David Whysong , Peter K. G. Williams , Melvyn Wright

I review the early development of Aperture Arrays and their role in radio astronomy. The demise of this technology at the end of the 1960's, and the reasons for the rise of parabolic dishes is also considered. The parallels with the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-29 Michael A. Garrett

This decade, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will perform its first observations. Preparations for building dishes, antennas, correlators and infrastructure are well underway. Concurrently, software for the processing of SKA observations…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-02 H. Spreeuw , S. Yatawatta , B. Van Werkhoven , F. Diblen

This document describes the top level requirements for the SKA-AAMID telescope as determined by the SKA key science projects. These include parameters such as operating frequency range,instantaneous bandwidth (total processed bandwidth),…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-24 S. A. Torchinsky , J. W. Broderick , A. Gunst , A. J. Faulkner , W. van Cappellen

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a planned large radio interferometer designed to operate over a wide range of frequencies, and with an order of magnitude greater sensitivity and survey speed than any current radio telescope. The SKA…

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…

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When completed the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will feature an unprecedented rate of image generation. While previous generations of telescopes have relied on human expertise to extract scientifically interesting information from the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-19 C. Hollitt , M. Johnston-Hollitt , S. Dehghan , M. Frean , T. Bulter-Yeoman

Radio frequency interference (RFI) detection and excision are key steps in the data-processing pipeline of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). Because of its high sensitivity and large data rate, FAST requires…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-14 Zhicheng Yang , Ce Yu , Jian Xiao , Bo Zhang

Connected radio interferometers are sometimes used in the tied-array mode: signals from antenna elements are coherently added and the sum signal applied to a VLBI backend or pulsar processing machine. Usually there is no computer-controlled…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-09 P. A. Fridman

Generation of science-ready data from processed data products is one of the major challenges in next-generation radio continuum surveys with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and its precursors, due to the expected data volume and the need…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-26 S. Riggi , G. Umana , C. Trigilio , C. Bordiu , F. Bufano , A. Ingallinera , F. Cavallaro , Y. Gordon , R. P. Norris , G. Gürkan , P. Leto , C. Buemi , S. Loru , A. M. Hopkins , M. D. Filipović , T. Cecconello

The Atacama Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) remains unparalleled in sensitivity at radio frequencies above 35 GHz. In this paper, we explore ALMA's potential for narrowband technosignature detection, considering factors such as the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-02 Louisa A Mason , Michael A Garrett , Kelvin Wandia , Andrew P V Siemion

Electromagnetic radiation from human activities, known as man-made Radio Frequency Interference (RFI), adversely affects radio astronomy observations. In the vicinity of the Upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT) array, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Kaushal D. Buch , Ruta Kale , Kishor D. Naik , Rahul Aragade , Mekhala Muley , Sanjay Kudale , Ajith Kumar B

Radio interferometry is an observational technique used to study astrophysical phenomena. Data gathered by an interferometer requires substantial processing before astronomers can extract the scientific information from it. Data processing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-24 Brian M. Kirk , Urvashi Rau , Ramyaa Ramyaa

The new wide-field radio telescopes, such as: ASKAP, MWA, LOFAR, eVLA and SKA; will produce spectral-imaging data-cubes (SIDC) of unprecedented size -- in the order of hundreds of Petabytes. Servicing such data as images to the end-user in…

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