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The Large Area Water Cherenkov Array (LAWCA) experiment focuses on high energy gamma astronomy between 100 GeV and 30 TeV. Invoked by the idea of hardware triggerless structure, a prototype of LAWCA trigger electronics is implemented in one…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-05-22 Yao Lin , Zhao Lei , Shang Lin-Feng , Liu Shu-Bin , An Qi

We report on the design, deployment, and first results from a scintillation detector deployed at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO). The detector is a prototype for a larger array -- the Square Kilometre Array Particle Array…

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

Advanced millimeter-wave software-defined array (SDA) platforms, or testbeds at affordable costs and high performance are essential for the wireless community. In this paper, we present a low-cost, portable, and programmable SDA that allows…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-19 Ashwini Pondeycherry Ganesh , Anthony Perre , Alphan Sahin , Ismail Guvenc , Brian A. Floyd

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…

We test the bandpass smoothness performance of two prototype Square Kilometre Array (SKA) SKA1-Low log-periodic dipole antennas, the SKALA2 and SKALA3 (`SKA Log-periodic Antenna'), and the current dipole from the Murchison Widefield Array…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Cathryn M. Trott , Eloy de Lera Acedo , Randall B. Wayth , Nicolas Fagnoni , Adrian T. Sutinjo , Brett Wakley , Chris Ivan B. Punzalan

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…

The Travelling Wave Array (TWA) antenna was proposed as a promising alternative for Ion Cyclotron Resonant Heating (ICRH) in future fusion reactors. In this study, the possibility to make a TWA compatible with a tungsten environment like…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-01-26 V. Maquet , R. Ragona , F. Durodié , J. Hillairet

Transition-edge sensor (TES) is a highly sensitive device that is capable of detecting extremely low levels of energy. It is characterised by low noise performance and high energy resolution. A mature method for reading out TES signal is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-02-11 N. Li , X. Ren , H. Gao , Z. Zhang , Y. Zhang , C. Liu , H. Li , Z. Li

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

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

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is the next generation radio telescope. Aperture Arrays (AA) are considered for SKA-2 for frequencies up to 1.4 GHz (SKA-1 uses AAs up to 350 MHz). This document presents design considerations of this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-12 A. W. Gunst , A. J. Faulkner , S. Wijnholds , R. Jongerius , S. Torchinsky , W. van Cappellen

The recent availability of fine grained high sensitivity data from the new generation low radio frequency instruments such as the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) have opened up opportunities for using novel techniques for characterizing the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 Rohit Sharma , Divya Oberoi , Mihir Arjunwadkar

The 21cm line brightness temperature brings rich information about Epoch of Reionizaton (EoR) and high-$z$ universe (Cosmic Dawn and Dark Age). While the power spectrum is a useful tool to investigate the EoR signal statistically,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Shintaro Yoshiura , Hayato Shimabukuro , Keitaro Takahashi , Rieko Momose , Hiroyuki Nakanishi , Hiroshi Imai

We analyse a 154 MHz image made from a 12 h observation with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) to determine the noise contribution and behaviour of the source counts down to 30 mJy. The MWA image has a bandwidth of 30.72 MHz, a…

The readout system with a high multiplexing ratio has become a bottleneck limiting the application of large-scale Transition Edge Sensor (TES) detector arrays. In recent years, the microwave superconducting quantum interference device…

We present techniques developed to calibrate and correct Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) low frequency (72-300 MHz) radio observations for polarimetry. The extremely wide field-of-view, excellent instantaneous (u, v)-coverage and…