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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

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

We present the first dedicated observations of Interplanetary Scintillation (IPS) with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). We have developed a synthesis imaging technique, tailored to the properties of modern "large-N" low-frequency radio…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-12 J . S. Morgan , J-P. Macquart , R. Ekers , R. Chhetri , M. Tokumaru , P. K. Manoharan , S. Tremblay , M. M. Bisi , B. V. Jackson

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

New laboratory data of ethyl mercaptan, CH$_{3}$CH$_{2}$SH, in the millimeter and submillimeter-wave domains (up to 880 GHz) provided very precise values of the spectroscopic constants that allowed the detection of $gauche$-CH$_3$CH$_2$SH…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 L. Kolesniková , B. Tercero , J. Cernicharo , J. L. Alonso , A. M. Daly , B. P. Gordon , S. T. Shipman

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…

We present Submillimeter Array (SMA) molecular line observations in two 2 GHz-wide bands centered at 217.5 and 227.5 GHz, toward the massive star forming region W51 North. We identified 84 molecular line transitions from 17 species and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-18 Jialei Rong , Sheng-Li Qin , Luis A. Zapata , Yuefang Wu , Tie Liu , Chengpeng Zhang , Yaping Peng , Li Zhang , Ying Liu

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

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 new spectroscopic observations of 13 H II regions in the Local Group spiral galaxy M33. The regions observed range from 1 to 7 kpc in distance from the nucleus. Of the 13 H II regions observed, the [O III] 4363 Angstrom line was…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. R. Crockett , D. R. Garnett , P. Massey , G. Jacoby

We investigate the correlation between the integrated low-frequency and infrared (IR) emissions of star-forming galaxies extracted from the {\sl Herschel} Reference Survey. By taking advantage of the GaLactic Extragalactic All-sky MWA…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-05 Tsutomu T. Takeuchi , Shuntaro A. Yoshida , Luca Cortese , O. Ivy Wong , Barbara Catinella , Suchetha Cooray

We report the discovery of the first new pulsar with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), PSR J0036$-$1033, a long-period (0.9 s) nonrecycled pulsar with a dispersion measure (DM) of 23.1 ${\rm pc\,cm^{-3}}$. It was found after processing…

The diatomic free radical methylidyne (CH) is an important tracer of the interstellar medium and the study of it was critical to our earliest understanding of star formation. Although it is detectable across the electromagnetic spectrum,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-23 Chenoa D. Tremblay , James A. Green , Stacy L. Mader , Chris J. Phillips , Matthew Whiting

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…

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

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

Methyl mercaptan (CH3SH) is a known interstellar molecule with abundances high enough that the detection of some of its minor isotopologues is promising. The present study aims at providing accurate spectroscopic parameters for the…

The 3 mm wavelength spectra of 10 galaxies have been obtained at the Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory using a new, very broadband receiver and spectrometer, called the Redshift Search Receiver (RSR). The RSR has an instantaneous…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Ronald L. Snell , Gopal Narayanan , Min S. Yun , Mark Heyer , Aeree Chung , William M. Irvine , Neal R. Erickson , Guilin Liu