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We have compiled a catalogue of HII regions detected with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) between 72 and 231MHz. The multiple frequency bands provided by the MWA allow us identify the characteristic spectrum generated by the thermal…

Observations of the 21 cm signal face significant challenges due to bright astrophysical foregrounds that are several orders of magnitude higher than the brightness of the hydrogen line, along with various systematics. Successful 21 cm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-11 Chuneeta D. Nunhokee , Dev Null , Cathryn M. Trott , Christopher H. Jordan , Jack B. Line , Randall Wayth , Nichole Barry

The radio interferometric closure phases can be a valuable tool for studying cosmological {H\scriptsize{I}}~from the early Universe. Closure phases have the advantage of being immune to element-based gains and associated calibration errors.…

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We report the first conformal ultra-wide band (UWB) array on a doubly curved surface for wide angle electronic scanning. We use a quadrilateral mesh as the basis for systematically arraying UWB radiators on arbitrary surfaces. A prototype…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 Carl Pfeiffer , Jeffrey Massman

The Long Wavelength Array (LWA) will be a new multi-purpose radio telescope operating in the frequency range 10-88 MHz. Scientific programs include pulsars, supernova remnants, general transient searches, radio recombination lines, solar…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-11 G. B. Taylor , The LWA Collaboration

We report the design and functionality of the Murchison Widefield Array Particle Detector Array (MWA PDA), an array of eight particle scintillation detectors deployed to Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory…

Polarimetric studies of pulsars at low radio frequencies provide important observational insights into the pulsar emission mechanism and beam models, and probe the properties of the magneto-ionic interstellar medium (ISM). Aperture arrays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-07 Mengyao Xue , S. M. Ord , S. E. Tremblay , N. D. R. Bhat , C. Sobey , B. W. Meyers , S. J. McSweeney , N. A. Swainston

We present a broadband map of polarized diffuse emission at 167-198 MHz developed from data from the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). The map is designed to improve visibility simulation and precision calibration for 21 cm Epoch of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 Ruby Byrne , Miguel F. Morales , Bryna Hazelton , Ian Sullivan , Nichole Barry , Christene Lynch , Jack L. B. Line , Daniel C. Jacobs

Interferometric localisation of transients and pulsars via tied-array beam processing is challenging and can be limited by the native spatial resolution achievable by the instrument, especially at low frequencies and for compact…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 Bradley W. Meyers , Arash Bahramian

We present the Engineering Development Array 2, which is one of two instruments built as a second generation prototype station for the future Square Kilometre Array Low Frequency Array. The array is comprised of 256 dual-polarization dipole…

The rapidly increasing number of satellites in Earth's orbit motivates the development of Space Domain Awareness (SDA) capabilities using wide field-of-view sensor systems that can perform simultaneous detections. This work demonstrates…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-10 S. Prabu , P. Hancock , X. Xiang , S. J. Tingay

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 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…

In this paper, a wideband high-gain 2 ? 2-element subarray is presented for 60 GHz band applications. The antenna is fed with waveguide-fed cavity backed configuration and designed entirely via simple rectangular apertures. To improve…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-05 Saeideh Shad , Hani Mehrpouyan

The Submillimeter Array (SMA) is an array of 8 antennas operating at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths on Maunakea, Hawaii, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and…

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…

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The redshifted cosmological 21 cm signal emitted by neutral hydrogen during the first billion years of the universe is much fainter relative to other galactic and extragalactic radio emissions, posing a great challenge towards detection of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-26 J. Kariuki Chege , C. H. Jordan , C. Lynch , C. M. Trott , J. L. B. Line , B. Pindor , S. Yoshiura

Large antenna arrays enable directional precoding for Millimeter-Wave (mmWave) systems and provide sufficient link budget to combat the high path-loss at these frequencies. Due to atmospheric conditions and hardware malfunction, outdoor…

Millimeter wave (mmW) communications is the key enabler of 5G cellular networks due to vast spectrum availability that could boost peak rate and capacity. Due to increased propagation loss in mmW band, transceivers with massive antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-20 Han Yan , Sridhar Ramesh , Timothy Gallagher , Curtis Ling , Danijela Cabric