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The Murchison Widefield Array: solar science with the low frequency SKA Precursor

The Murchison Widefield Array is a low frequency (80 - 300 MHz) SKA Precursor, comprising 128 aperture array elements (known as tiles) distributed over an area of 3 km diameter. The MWA is located at the extraordinarily radio quiet…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 S. J. Tingay , D. Oberoi , I. Cairns , A. Donea , R. Duffin , W. Arcus , G. Bernardi , J. D. Bowman , F. Briggs , J. D. Bunton , R. J. Cappallo , B. E. Corey , A. Deshpande , L. deSouza , D. Emrich , B. M. Gaensler , R. Goeke , L. J. Greenhill , B. J. Hazelton , D. Herne , J. N. Hewitt , M. Johnston-Hollitt , D. L. Kaplan , J. C. Kasper , J. A. Kennewell , B. B. Kincaid , R. Koenig , E. Kratzenberg , C. J. Lonsdale , M. J. Lynch , S. R. McWhirter , D. A. Mitchell , M. F. Morales , E. Morgan , S. M. Ord , J. Pathikulangara , T. Prabu , R. A Remillard , A. E. E. Rogers , A. Roshi , J. E. Salah , R. J. Sault , N. Udaya-Shankar , K. S. Srivani , J. Stevens , R. Subrahmanyan , M. Waterson , R. B. Wayth , R. L. Webster , A. R. Whitney , A. Williams , C. L. Williams , J. S. B. Wyithe

The Murchison Widefield Array: the Square Kilometre Array Precursor at low radio frequencies

The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is one of three Square Kilometre Array Precursor telescopes and is located at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in the Murchison Shire of the mid-west of Western Australia, a location chosen for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 S. J. Tingay , R. Goeke , J. D. Bowman , D. Emrich , S. M. Ord , D. A. Mitchell , M. F. Morales , T. Booler , B. Crosse , D. Pallot , A. Wicenec , W. Arcus , D. Barnes , G. Bernardi , F. Briggs , S. Burns , J. D. Bunton , R. J. Cappallo , T. Colegate , B. E. Corey , A. Deshpande , L. deSouza , B. M. Gaensler , L. J. Greenhill , J. Hall , B. J. Hazelton , D. Herne , J. N. Hewitt , M. Johnston-Hollitt , D. L. Kaplan , J. C. Kasper , B. B. Kincaid , R. Koenig , E. Kratzenberg , C. J. Lonsdale , M. J. Lynch , B. McKinley , S. R. McWhirter , E. Morgan , D. Oberoi , J. Pathikulangara , T. Prabu , R. A. Remillard , A. E. E. Rogers , A. Roshi , J. E. Salah , R. J. Sault , N. Udaya-Shankar , F. Schlagenhaufer , K. S. Srivani , J. Stevens , R. Subrahmanyan , S. Tremblay , R. B. Wayth , M. Waterson , R. L. Webster , A. R. Whitney , A. Williams , C. L. Williams , J. S. B. Wyithe

The Murchison Widefield Array Enters Adolescence: A Personal Review of the Early Years of Operations

The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is a low frequency radio interferometer designed and developed by an international consortium, operated on behalf of the consortium by Curtin University. The MWA is a Precursor for the low frequency…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-11 Steven J. Tingay

The Murchison Widefield Array: Design Overview

The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is a dipole-based aperture array synthesis telescope designed to operate in the 80-300 MHz frequency range. It is capable of a wide range of science investigations, but is initially focused on three key…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Colin J. Lonsdale , Roger J. Cappallo , Miguel F. Morales , Frank H. Briggs , Leonid Benkevitch , Judd D. Bowman , John D. Bunton , Steven Burns , Brian E. Corey , Ludi deSouza , Sheperd S. Doeleman , Mark Derome , Avinash Deshpande , M. R. Gopalakrishna , Lincoln J. Greenhill , David Herne , Jacqueline N. Hewitt , P. A. Kamini , Justin C. Kasper , Barton B. Kincaid , Jonathan Kocz , Errol Kowald , Eric Kratzenberg , Deepak Kumar , Mervyn J. Lynch , S. Madhavi , Michael Matejek , Daniel Mitchell , Edward Morgan , Divya Oberoi , Steven Ord , Joseph Pathikulangara , T. Prabu , Alan E. E. Rogers , Anish Roshi , Joseph E. Salah , Robert J. Sault , N. Udaya Shankar , K. S. Srivani , Jamie Stevens , Steven Tingay , Annino Vaccarella , Mark Waterson , Randall B. Wayth , Rachel L. Webster , Alan R. Whitney , Andrew Williams , Christopher Williams

Science with the Murchison Widefield Array

Significant new opportunities for astrophysics and cosmology have been identified at low radio frequencies. The Murchison Widefield Array is the first telescope in the Southern Hemisphere designed specifically to explore the low-frequency…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Judd D. Bowman , Iver Cairns , David L. Kaplan , Tara Murphy , Divya Oberoi , Lister Staveley-Smith , Wayne Arcus , David G. Barnes , Gianni Bernardi , Frank H. Briggs , Shea Brown , John D. Bunton , Adam J. Burgasser , Roger J. Cappallo , Shami Chatterjee , Brian E. Corey , Anthea Coster , Avinash Deshpande , Ludi deSouza , David Emrich , Philip Erickson , Robert F. Goeke , B. M. Gaensler , Lincoln J. Greenhill , Lisa Harvey-Smith , Bryna J. Hazelton , David Herne , Jacqueline N. Hewitt , Melanie Johnston-Hollitt , Justin C. Kasper , Barton B. Kincaid , Ronald Koenig , Eric Kratzenberg , Colin J. Lonsdale , Mervyn J. Lynch , Lynn D. Matthews , S. Russell McWhirter , Daniel A. Mitchell , Miguel F. Morales , Edward H. Morgan , Stephen M. Ord , Joseph Pathikulangara , Prabu Thiagaraj , Ronald A. Remillard , Timothy Robishaw , Alan E. E. Rogers , Anish A. Roshi , Joseph E. Salah , Robert J. Sault , N. Udaya Shankar , K. S. Srivani , Jamie B. Stevens , Ravi Subrahmanyan , Steven J. Tingay , Randall B. Wayth , Mark Waterson , Rachel L. Webster , Alan R. Whitney , Andrew J. Williams , Christopher L. Williams , J. Stuart B. Wyithe

Science with the Murchison Widefield Array: Phase I Results and Phase II Opportunities

The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is an open access telescope dedicated to studying the low frequency (80$-$300 MHz) southern sky. Since beginning operations in mid 2013, the MWA has opened a new observational window in the southern…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 A. P. Beardsley , M. Johnston-Hollitt , C. M. Trott , J. C. Pober , J. Morgan , D. Oberoi , D. L. Kaplan , C. R. Lynch , G. E. Anderson , P. I. McCauley , S. Croft , C. W. James , O. I. Wong , C. D. Tremblay , R. P. Norris , I. H. Cairns , C. J. Lonsdale , P. J. Hancock , B. M. Gaensler , N. D. R. Bhat , W. Li , N. Hurley-Walker , J. R. Callingham , N. Seymour , S. Yoshiura , R. C. Joseph , K. Takahashi , M. Sokolowski , J. C. A. Miller-Jones , J. V. Chauhan , I. Bojičić , M. D. Filipović , D. Leahy , H. Su , W. W. Tian , S. J. McSweeney , B. W. Meyers , S. Kitaeff , T. Vernstrom , G. Gürkan , G. Heald , M. Xue , C. J. Riseley , S. W. Duchesne , J. D. Bowman , D. C. Jacobs , B. Crosse , D. Emrich , T. M. O. Franzen , L. Horsley , D. Kenney , M. F. Morales , D. Pallot , K. Steele , S. J. Tingay , M. Walker , R. B. Wayth , A. Williams , C. Wu

On the detection and tracking of space debris using the Murchison Widefield Array. I. Simulations and test observations demonstrate feasibility

The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is a new low frequency interferomeric radio telescope. The MWA is the low frequency precursor to the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and is the first of three SKA precursors to be operational, supporting a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 S. J. Tingay , D. L. Kaplan , B. McKinley , F. Briggs , R. B. Wayth , N. Hurley-Walker , J. Kennewell , C. Smith , K. Zhang , W. Arcus , R. Bhat , D. Emrich , D. Herne , N. Kudryavtseva , M. Lynch , S. M. Ord , M. Waterson , D. G. Barnes , M. Bell , B. M. Gaensler , E. Lenc , G. Bernardi , L. J. Greenhill , J. C. Kasper , J. D. Bowman , D. Jacobs , J. D. Bunton , L. deSouza , R. Koenig , J. Pathikulangara , J. Stevens , R. J. Cappallo , B. E. Corey , B. B. Kincaid , E. Kratzenberg , C. J. Lonsdale , S. R. McWhirter , A. E. E. Rogers , J. E. Salah , A. R. Whitney , A. Deshpande , T. Prabu , N. Udaya Shankar , K. S. Srivani , R. Subrahmanyan , A. Ewall-Wice , L. Feng , R. Goeke , E. Morgan , R. A. Remillard , C. L. Williams , B. J. Hazelton , M. F. Morales , M. Johnston-Hollitt , D. A. Mitchell , P. Procopio , J. Riding , R. L. Webster , J. S. B. Wyithe , D. Oberoi , A. Roshi , R. J. Sault , A. Williams

Interferometric imaging with the 32 element Murchison Wide-field Array

The Murchison Wide-field Array (MWA) is a low frequency radio telescope, currently under construction, intended to search for the spectral signature of the epoch of re-ionisation (EOR) and to probe the structure of the solar corona. Sited…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 S. M. Ord , D. A. Mitchell , R. B. Wayth , L. J. Greenhill , G. Bernardi , S. Gleadow , R. G. Edgar , M. A. Clark , G. Allen , W. Arcus , L. Benkevitch , J. D. Bowman , F. H. Briggs , J. D. Bunton , S. Burns , R. J. Cappallo , W. A. Coles , B. E. Corey , L. deSouza , S. S. Doeleman , M. Derome , A. Deshpande , D. Emrich , R. Goeke , M. R. Gopalakrishna , D. Herne , J. N. Hewitt , P. A. Kamini , D. L. Kaplan , J. C. Kasper , B. B. Kincaid , J. Kocz , E. Kowald , E. Kratzenberg , D. Kumar , C. J. Lonsdale , M. J. Lynch , S. R. McWhirter , S. Madhavi , M. Matejek , M. F. Morales , E. Morgan , D. Oberoi , J. Pathikulangara , T. Prabu , A. E. E. Rogers , A. Roshi , J. E. Salah , A. Schinkel , N. Udaya Shankar , K. S. Srivani , J. Stevens , S. J. Tingay , A. Vaccarella , M. Waterson , R. L. Webster , A. R. Whitney , A. Williams , C. Williams

Low Frequency Imaging of Fields at High Galactic Latitude with the Murchison Widefield Array 32-Element Prototype

The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is a new low-frequency, wide field-of-view radio interferometer under development at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) in Western Australia. We have used a 32-element MWA prototype…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Christopher L. Williams , Jacqueline N. Hewitt , Alan M. Levine , Angelica de Oliveira-Costa , Judd D. Bowman , Frank H. Briggs , B. M. Gaensler , Lars L. Hernquist , Daniel A. Mitchell , Miguel F. Morales , Shiv K. Sethi , Ravi Subrahmanyan , Elaine M. Sadler , Wayne Arcus , David G. Barnes , Gianni Bernardi , John D. Bunton , Roger C. Cappallo , Brian W. Crosse , Brian E. Corey , Avinash Deshpande , Ludi deSouza , David Emrich , Robert F. Goeke , Lincoln J. Greenhill , Bryna J. Hazelton , David Herne , David L. Kaplan , Justin C. Kasper , Barton B. Kincaid , Ronald Koenig , Eric Kratzenberg , Colin J. Lonsdale , Mervyn J. Lynch , S. Russell McWhirter , %Daniel A. Mitchell , %Miguel F. Morales , Edward H. Morgan , Divya Oberoi , Stephen M. Ord , Joseph Pathikulangara , Thiagaraj Prabu , Ronald A. Remillard , Alan E. E. Rogers , Anish A. Roshi , Joseph E. Salah , Robert J. Sault , N. Udaya Shankar , K. S. Srivani , Jamie B. Stevens , Steven J. Tingay , Randall B. Wayth , Mark Waterson , Rachel L. Webster , Alan R. Whitney , Andrew J. Williams , J. Stuart B. Wyithe

The low-frequency environment of the Murchison Widefield Array: radio-frequency interference analysis and mitigation

The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is a new low-frequency interferometric radio telescope built in Western Australia at one of the locations of the future Square Kilometre Array (SKA). We describe the automated radio-frequency interference…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-12 A. R. Offringa , R. B. Wayth , N. Hurley-Walker , D. L. Kaplan , N. Barry , A. P. Beardsley , M. E. Bell , G. Bernardi , J. D. Bowman , F. Briggs , J. R. Callingham , R. J. Cappallo , P. Carroll , A. A. Deshpande , J. S. Dillon , K. S. Dwarakanath , A. Ewall-Wice , L. Feng , B. -Q. For , B. M. Gaensler , L. J. Greenhill , P. Hancock , B. J. Hazelton , J. N. Hewitt , L. Hindson , D. C. Jacobs , M. Johnston-Hollitt , A. D. Kapińska , H. -S. Kim , P. Kittiwisit , E. Lenc , J. Line , A. Loeb , C. J. Lonsdale , B. McKinley , S. R. McWhirter , D. A. Mitchell , M. F. Morales , E. Morgan , J. Morgan , A. R. Neben , D. Oberoi , S. M. Ord , S. Paul , B. Pindor , J. C. Pober , T. Prabu , P. Procopio , J. Riding , N. Udaya Shankar , S. Sethi , K. S. Srivani , L. Staveley-Smith , R. Subrahmanyan , I. S. Sullivan , M. Tegmark , N. Thyagarajan , S. J. Tingay , C. M. Trott , R. L. Webster , A. Williams , C. L. Williams , C. Wu , J. S. Wyithe , Q. Zheng

The Murchison Widefield Array Correlator

The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is a Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Precursor. The telescope is located at the Murchison Radio--astronomy Observatory (MRO) in Western Australia (WA). The MWA consists of 4096 dipoles arranged into 128 dual…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 S. M. Ord , B. Crosse , D. Emrich , D. Pallot , R. B. Wayth , M. A. Clark , S. E. Tremblay , W. Arcus , D. Barnes , M. Bell , G. Bernardi , N. D. R. Bhat , J. D. Bowman , F. Briggs , J. D. Bunton , R. J. Cappallo , B. E. Corey , A. A. Deshpande , L. deSouza , A. Ewell-Wice , L. Feng , R. Goeke , L. J. Greenhill , B. J. Hazelton , D. Herne , J. N. Hewitt , L. Hindson , H. Hurley-Walker , D. Jacobs , M. Johnston-Hollitt , D. L. Kaplan , J. C. Kasper , B. B. Kincaid , R. Koenig , E. Kratzenberg , N. Kudryavtseva , E. Lenc , C. J. Lonsdale , M. J. Lynch , B. McKinley , S. R. McWhirter , D. A. Mitchell , M. F. Morales , E. Morgan , D. Oberoi , A. Offringa , J. Pathikulangara , B. Pindor , T. Prabu , P. Procopio , R. A. Remillard , J. Riding , A. E. E. Rogers , A. Roshi , J. E. Salah , R. J. Sault , N. Udaya Shankar , K. S. Srivani , J. Stevens , R. Subrahmanyan , S. J. Tingay , M. Waterson , R. L. Webster , A. R. Whitney , A. Williams , C. L. Williams , J. S. B. Wyithe

First Spectroscopic Imaging Observations of the Sun at Low Radio Frequencies with the Murchison Widefield Array Prototype

We present the first spectroscopic images of solar radio transients from the prototype for the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), observed on 2010 March 27. Our observations span the instantaneous frequency band 170.9-201.6 MHz. Though our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Divya Oberoi , Lynn D. Matthews , Iver H. Cairns , David Emrich , Vasili Lobzin , Colin J. Lonsdale , Edward H. Morgan , T. Prabu , Harish Vedantham , Randall B. Wayth , Andrew Williams , Christopher Williams , Stephen M. White , G. Allen , Wayne Arcus , David Barnes , Leonid Benkevitch , Gianni Bernardi , Judd D. Bowman , Frank H. Briggs , John D. Bunton , Steve Burns , Roger C. Cappallo , M. A. Clark , Brian E. Corey , M. Dawson , David DeBoer , A. De Gans , Ludi deSouza , Mark Derome , R. G. Edgar , T. Elton , Robert Goeke , M. R. Gopalakrishna , Lincoln J. Greenhill , Bryna Hazelton , David Herne , Jacqueline N. Hewitt , P. A. Kamini , David L. Kaplan , Justin C. Kasper , Rachel Kennedy , Barton B. Kincaid , Jonathan Kocz , R. Koeing , Errol Kowald , Mervyn J. Lynch , S. Madhavi , Stephen R. McWhirter , Daniel A. Mitchell , Miguel F. Morales , A. Ng , Stephen M. Ord , Joseph Pathikulangara , Alan E. E. Rogers , Anish Roshi , Joseph E. Salah , Robert J. Sault , Antony Schinckel , N. Udaya Shankar , K. S. Srivani , Jamie Stevens , Ravi Subrahmanyan , D. Thakkar , Steven J. Tingay , J. Tuthill , Annino Vaccarella , Mark Waterson , Rachel L. Webster , Alan R. Whitney

Characterization of a Low-Frequency Radio Astronomy Prototype Array in Western Australia

We report characterization results for an engineering prototype of a next-generation low-frequency radio astronomy array. This prototype, which we refer to as the Aperture Array Verification System 0.5 (AAVS0.5), is a sparse pseudo-random…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 A. T. Sutinjo , T. M. Colegate , R. B. Wayth , P. J. Hall , E. de Lera Acedo , T. Booler , A. J. Faulkner , L. Feng , N. Hurley-Walker , B. Juswardy , S. K. Padhi , N. Razavi-Ghods , M. Sokolowski , S. J. Tingay , J. G. Bij de Vaate

Strategies for Finding Prompt Radio Counterparts to Gravitational Wave Transients with the Murchison Widefield Array

We present and evaluate several strategies to search for prompt, low-frequency radio emission associated with gravitational wave transients using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). As we are able to repoint the MWA on timescales of tens…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 D. L. Kaplan , T. Murphy , A. Rowlinson , S. D. Croft , R. B. Wayth , C. M. Trott

A VOEvent based automatic trigger system for the Murchison Widefield Array

The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is an electronically steered low frequency ($<300$\,MHz) radio interferometer, with a `slew' time less than 8seconds. Low frequency ($\sim 100$\,MHz) radio telescopes are ideally suited for rapid-response…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 P. J. Hancock , G. E. Anderson , A. Williams , M. Sokolowski , S. E. Tremblay , A. Rowlinson , B. Crosse , B. W. Meyers , C. R. Lynch , A. Zic , A. P. Beardsley , D. Emrich , T. M. O. Franzen , L. Horsley , M. Johnston-Hollitt , D. L. Kaplan , D. Kenney , M. F. Morales , D. Pallot , K. Steele , S. J. Tingay , C. M. Trott , M. Walker , R. B. Wayth , C. Wu

Compression of Visibility Data for Murchison Widefield Array

The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is a new low frequency radio telescope operating on the Square Kilometre Array site in Western Australia. MWA is generating tens of terabytes of data daily. The size of the required data storage has…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-09 Vyacheslav V. Kitaeff

Detecting the Rise and Fall of 21 cm Fluctuations with the Murchison Widefield Array

We forecast the sensitivity with which the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) can measure the 21 cm power spectrum of cosmic hydrogen, using radiative transfer simulations to model reionization and the 21 cm signal. The MWA is sensitive to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Adam Lidz , Oliver Zahn , Matthew McQuinn , Matias Zaldarriaga , Lars Hernquist

Multi-epoch Low Radio Frequency Surveys of the Kepler K2 Mission Campaign Fields 3, 4, and 5 with the Murchison Widefield Array

We present Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) monitoring of the Kepler K2 mission Fields 3, 4, and 5 at frequencies of 155 and 186 MHz, from observations contemporaneous with the K2 observations. This work follows from previous MWA and GMRT…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-10 S. J. Tingay , P. J Hancock

MWA Tied-Array Processing IV: A Multi-Pixel Beamformer for Pulsar Surveys and Ionospheric Corrected Localisation

The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is a low-frequency aperture array capable of high-time and frequency resolution astronomy applications such as pulsar studies. The large field-of-view of the MWA (hundreds of square degrees) can also be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 N. A. Swainston , N. D. R. Bhat , I. S. Morrison , S. J. McSweeney , S. M. Ord , S. E. Tremblay , M. Sokolowski

Characterization of the SKA1-Low prototype station Aperture Array Verification System 2

The low frequency component of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA1-Low) will be an aperture phased array located at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) site in Western Australia. It will be composed of 512 stations, each of them…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-27 Giulia Macario , Giuseppe Pupillo , Gianni Bernardi , Pietro Bolli , Paola Di Ninni , Giovanni Comoretto , Andrea Mattana , Jader Monari , Federico Perini , Marco Schiaffino , Marcin Sokolowski , Randall Wayth , Jess Broderick , Mark Waterson , Maria Grazia Labate , Riccardo Chiello , Alessio Magro , Tom Booler , Raunaq Bhushan