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EAS arrays are survey instruments able to monitor continuously all the overhead sky. Their sensitivity in the sub-TeV/TeV energy domain cannot compete with that of Cherenkov telescopes, but the wide field of view (about 2 sr) is ideal to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-04 G. Di Sciascio

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA, https://skatelescope.org) will be the world's largest radio telescope. SKA Science Data Challenges will be regularly issued to the community as part of the science preparatory activities. The purpose of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Anna Bonaldi , Robert Braun

The Square Kilometre Array will be a revolutionary instrument for the study of gas in the distant Universe. SKA1 will have sufficient sensitivity to detect and image atomic 21 cm HI in individual galaxies at significant cosmological…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-12-19 J. Wagg , E. Da Cunha , C. L. Carilli , F. Walter , M. Aravena , I. Heywood , J. Hodge , E. Murphy , D. Riechers , M. Sargent , R. Wang

The next generation interferometric radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which will be the most sensitive and largest radio telescope ever constructed, could greatly contribute to the detection, survey and characterization of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-05 Alan Cosimo Ruggeri , Salvatore Capozziello

The concept of a Square Kilometre Array was developed to ensure that progress in Radio Astronomy in the early 21st Century continued at the same impressive pace as was achieved during the first 50 years. The SKA telescope is designed to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-11 Lisa Harvey-Smith

Using the final 128 antenna locations of the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), we calculate its sensitivity to the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) power spectrum of red- shifted 21 cm emission for a fiducial model and provide the tools to…

We investigate the capabilities of various stages of the SKA to perform world-leading weak gravitational lensing surveys. We outline a way forward to develop the tools needed for pursuing weak lensing in the radio band. We identify the key…

The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) is currently detecting cosmic rays of energies at and above 10^17 eV at the Pierre Auger Observatory, by triggering on the radio emission produced in the associated air showers. The radio-detection…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 J. L. Kelley

We apply two methods to estimate the 21~cm bispectrum from data taken within the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR) project of the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). Using data acquired with the Phase II compact array allows a direct bispectrum…

Since 2007, the Telescope Array (TA) experiment, based in Utah, USA, has been observing ultra high energy cosmic rays to understand their origins. The experiment involves a surface detector (SD) array and three fluorescence detector (FD)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 H. Tokuno , Y. Tameda , M. Takeda , K. Kadota , D. Ikeda , M. Chikawa , T. Fujii , M. Fukushima , K. Honda , N. Inoue , F. Kakimoto , S. Kawana , E. Kido , J. N. Matthews , T. Nonaka , S. Ogio , T. Okuda , S. Ozawa , H. Sagawa , N. Sakurai , T. Shibata , A. Taketa , S. B. Thomas , T. Tomida , Y. Tsunesada , S. Udo , T. Abu-zayyad , R. Aida , M. Allen , R. Anderson , R. Azuma , E. Barcikowski , J. W. Belz , D. R. Bergman , S. A. Blake , R. Cady , B. G. Cheon , J. Chiba , E. J. Cho , W. R. Cho , H. Fujii , T. Fukuda , D. Gorbunov , W. Hanlon , K. Hayashi , Y. Hayashi , N. Hayashida , K. Hibino , K. Hiyama , T. Iguchi , K. Ikuta , T. Ishii , R. Ishimori , D. Ivanov , S. Iwamoto , C. C. H. Jui , O. Kalashev , T. Kanbe , K. Kasahara , H. Kawai , S. Kawakami , H. B. Kim , H. K. Kim , J. H. Kim , J. H. Kim , K. Kitamoto , K. Kobayashi , Y. Kobayashi , Y. Kondo , K. Kuramoto , V. Kuzmin , Y. J. Kwon , S. I. Lim , S. Machida , K. Martens , J. Martineau , T. Matsuda , T. Matsuura , T. Matsuyama , I. Myers , M. Minamino , K. Miyata , H. Miyauchi , Y. Murano , T. Nakamura , S. W. Nam , M. Ohnishi , H. Ohoka , K. Oki , D. Oku , A. Oshima , I. H. Park , M. S. Pshirkov , D. Rodriguez , S. Y. Roh , G. Rubtsov , D. Ryu , A. L. Sampson , L. M. Scott , P. D. Shah , F. Shibata , H. Shimodaira , B. K. Shin , J. I. Shin , T. Shirahama , J. D. Smith , P. Sokolsky , T. J. Sonley , R. W. Springer , B. T. Stokes , S. R. Stratton , T. Stroman , S. Suzuki , Y. Takahashi , M. Takita , H. Tanaka , K. Tanaka , M. Tanaka , G. B. Thomson , P. Tinyakov , I. Tkachev , S. Troitsky , K. Tsutsumi , Y. Tsuyuguchi , Y. Uchihori , H. Ukai , G. Vasiloff , Y. Wada , T. Wong , M. Wood , Y. Yamakawa , H. Yamaoka , K. Yamazaki , J. Yang , S. Yoshida , H. Yoshii , R. Zollinger , Z. Zundel

High angular resolution observations of discs at mm wavelengths (on scales of a few au) are now commonplace, but there is a current lack of a comparable angular resolution for observations at cm wavelengths. This presents a significant…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-07 John D. Ilee , Cassandra Hall , Catherine Walsh , Izaskun Jiménez-Serra , Christophe Pinte , Jason Terry , Tyler Bourke , Melvin Hoare

Radio telescope arrays, such as Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and next-generation Very Large Array (ngVLA), require highly precise synchronization of time-frequency references to ensure high-quality observational data. Fiber-based frequency…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-04 Hongfei Dai , Wenlin Li , Zhongwang Pang , Chunyi Li , Dongqi Song , Tong Ww , Bo Wang

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…

In this paper we consider the use of wide field of view radar sensors such as the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), a low frequency radio telescope designed for astrophysics and cosmology, for rapid response observations of the debris clouds…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Wynand Joubert , Steven Tingay

Conventional direction of arrival (DOA) estimators are based on array processing using either time differences or beamforming. The proposed approach is based on the received power at each microphone, which enables simple hardware, low…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-16 Gustav Zetterqvist , Fredrik Gustafsson , Gustaf Hendeby

(Abridged) Noise considerations for experiments that aim to statistically estimate the 21 cm signal from high redshift neutral hydrogen during the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR) using interferometric data are typically computed assuming a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Cathryn M. Trott

The recent demonstration by the CODALEMA Collaboration of the ability of the radio-detection technique for the characterization of UHE cosmic-rays calls for the use of this powerful method for the observation of UHE neutrinos. For this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-30 Daniel Ardouin , Didier Charrier , Pascal Lautridou , Olivier Martineau-Huynh , Olivier Ravel , Xiang-Ping Wu , Meng Zhao

As of 2023, the Square Kilometre Array will constitute the world's largest radio telescope, offering unprecedented capabilities for a diverse science programme in radio astronomy. At the same time, the SKA will be ideally suited to detect…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-17 T. Huege , J. D. Bray , S. Buitink , R. Dallier , R. D. Ekers , H. Falcke , A. Haungs , C. W. James , L. Martin , B. Revenu , O. Scholten , F. G. Schröder , A. Zilles

Detection of the fluctuations in 21 cm line emission from neutral hydrogen during the Epoch of Reionization in thousand hour integrations poses stringent requirements on calibration and image quality, both of which necessitate accurate…

The Keck Array (SPUD) began observing the cosmic microwave background's polarization in the winter of 2011 at the South Pole. The Keck Array follows the success of the predecessor experiments Bicep and Bicep2, using five on-axis refracting…