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A new high time resolution observing mode for the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is described, enabling full polarimetric observations with up to 30.72 MHz of bandwidth and a time resolution of ~0.8 $\mu$s. This mode makes use of a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 S. J. McSweeney , S. M. Ord , N. D. R. Bhat , B. W. Meyers , S. E. Tremblay , J. Jones , B. Crosse , K. R. Smith

The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is a next-generation radio telescope currently under construction in the remote Western Australia Outback. Raw data will be generated continuously at 5GiB/s, grouped into 8s cadences. This high throughput…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 R. G. Edgar , M. A. Clark , K. Dale , D. A. Mitchell , S. M. Ord , R. B. Wayth , H. Pfister , L. J. Greenhill

The Murchison Widefield Array is a low-frequency Square Kilometre Array precursor located at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Western Australia. Primarily designed as an imaging telescope, but with a flexible signal path, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 S. M. Ord , S. E. Tremblay , S. J. McSweeney , N. D. R. Bhat , C. Sobey , D. A. Mitchell , P. J. Hancock , F. Kirsten

We have extended our previous work to use the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) as a non-coherent passive radar system in the FM frequency band, using terrestrial FM transmitters to illuminate objects in Low Earth Orbit LEO) and the MWA as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-16 Steve Prabu , Paul J Hancock , Zhang Xiang , Steven J Tingay

The science cases for incorporating high time resolution capabilities into modern radio telescopes are as numerous as they are compelling. Science targets range from exotic sources such as pulsars, to our Sun, to recently detected possible…

The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), and its recently-developed Voltage Capture System (VCS), facilitates extending the low-frequency range of pulsar observations at high-time and -frequency resolution in the Southern Hemisphere, providing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-23 Mengyao Xue , N. D. R. Bhat , S. E. Tremblay , S. M. Ord , C. Sobey , N. A. Swainston , D. L. Kaplan , Simon Johnston , B. W. Meyers , S. J. McSweeney

Low frequency imaging radio arrays such as MWA, LWA and LOFAR have been recently commissioned, and significantly more advanced and flexible arrays are planned for the near term. These powerful instruments offer new opportunities for direct…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 C. Lonsdale , L. Benkevitch , I. Cairns , M. Crowley , P. Erickson , M. Knapp , K. Kozarev , F. Lind , P. McCauley , J. Morgan , D. Oberoi

This paper describes the use of the Murchison Widefield Array, a low-frequency radio telescope at a radio-quiet Western Australian site, as a radar receiver forming part of a continent-spanning multistatic radar network for the surveillance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-07 Brendan Hennessy , Robert Young , Steven Tingay , Ashley Summers , Daniel Gustainis , Brian Crosse , Marcin Sokolowski

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…

The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is a next-generation radio telescope, generating visibility data products continuously at about 400 MB/s. Efficiently managing and archiving this data is a challenge. The MWA Archive consists of dataflows…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-29 Chen Wu , Andreas Wicenec , Dave Pallot , Alessio Checcucci

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…

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…

This paper presents a framework to compute the receiver noise temperature (Trcv) of two low-frequency radio telescopes, the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) and the Engineering Development Array (EDA). The MWA was selected because it is the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-23 Daniel C. X. Ung , Marcin Sokolowski , Adrian T. Sutinjo , David B. Davidson

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

The Sun has remained a difficult source to image for radio telescopes, especially at the low radio frequencies. Its morphologically complex emission features span a large range of angular scales, emission mechanisms involved and brightness…

We describe the design, validation, and commissioning of a new correlator termed "MWAX" for the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) low-frequency radio telescope. MWAX replaces an earlier generation MWA correlator, extending correlation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-03 I. S. Morrison , B. Crosse , G. Sleap , R. B. Wayth , A. Williams , M. Johnston-Hollitt , J. Jones , S. J. Tingay , M. Walker , L. Williams

We describe the parameters of a low-frequency all-sky survey of compact radio sources using Interplanetary Scintillation (IPS), undertaken with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). While this survey gives important complementary information…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-08 J. S. Morgan , J-P. Macquart , R. Chhetri , R. D. Ekers , S. J. Tingay , E. M. Sadler

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are short timescale (<<1 s) astrophysical radio signals, presumed to be a signature of cataclysmic events of extragalactic origin. The discovery of six high-redshift events at ~1400 MHz from the Parkes radio…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Cathryn M. Trott , Steven J. Tingay , Randall B. Wayth