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The Tianlai 21cm intensity mapping experiment is located at the Hongliuxia Observing Station, which is a remote site with excellent electromagnetic environment. To facilitate the operation of the Tianlai experiment while reducing the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Jixia Li , Fengquan Wu , Shijie Sun , Yougang Wang , Xuelei Chen

We are developing the Precision Array for Probing the Epoch of Reionization (PAPER) to detect 21cm emission from the early Universe, when the first stars and galaxies were forming. We describe the overall experiment strategy and…

Ground-based observation at frequencies below 30 MHz is hindered by the ionosphere of the Earth and radio frequency interference. To map the sky at these low frequencies, we have proposed the Discovering the Sky at the Longest wavelength…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Yuan Shi , Yidong Xu , Li Deng , Fengquan Wu , Lin Wu , Qizhi Huang , Shifan Zuo , Jingye Yan , Xuelei Chen

The Tianlai Cylinder Pathfinder Array consists of three adjacent cylindrical reflectors fixed on the ground, each 40 meters long and 15 meters wide, with the cylinder axis oriented along the North-South (N-S)direction. Dual linear…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-05 Jixia Li , Nanben Suo , Shenzhe Xu , Shijie Sun , Shifan Zuo , Yougang Wang , Fengquan Wu , Juyong Zhang , Peter Timbie , Reza Ansari , Albert Stebbins , Xuelei Chen

LISA PathFinder (LPF) will be flown with the objective to test in space key technologies for LISA. However its sensitivity goals are, for good reason, one order of magnitude less than those which LISA will have to meet, both in drag-free…

Drone-based beam measurements are a promising avenue to tackle the critical challenge of calibration for 21 cm cosmology telescopes. In this paper, we introduce a new drone-based calibration system for 400-800 MHz radio observatories,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-30 Emily R. Kuhn , Will Tyndall , Benjamin R. B. Saliwanchik , Anna Rose Polish , Maile Harris , Laura B. Newburgh

Time Delay Interferometry (TDI) is an indispensable step in the whole data processing procedure of space-based gravitational wave detection, as it mitigates the overwhelming laser frequency noise, which would otherwise completely bury the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-30 Minghui Du , Pengzhan Wu , Ziren Luo , Peng Xu

Spaceborne gravitational-wave observatories utilize a postprocessing technique known as time-delay interferometry (TDI) to reduce the otherwise overwhelming laser frequency noise by around 8 orders of magnitude. While, in its traditional…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-11 Kohei Yamamoto , Jan Niklas Reinhardt , Olaf Hartwig

The Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) is an ideal instrument to conduct deep extragalactic surveys. It has a large field of view and is sensitive to large scale and compact emission. It is, however, very challenging to synthesize thermal noise…

Far-infrared detectors for future cooled space telescopes require ultra-sensitive detectors with optical noise equivalent powers of order 0.2 aW/\sqrt Hz. This performance has already been demonstrated in arrays of transition edge sensors.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-01 D J Goldie , S. Withington , C. N. Thomas , P. A. R. Ade , R. V. Sudiwala

TianQin is a proposed geocentric space-based gravitational wave observatory mission, which requires time-delay interferometry (TDI) to cancel laser frequency noise. With high demands for precision, solar-wind plasma environment at $\sim…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-26 Yi-De Jing , Lu Zheng , Shutao Yang , Xuefeng Zhang , Lingfeng Lu , Binbin Tang , Wei Su

Telescopes aiming to measure 21cm emission from the Epoch of Reionization must toe a careful line, balancing the need for raw sensitivity against the stringent calibration requirements for removing bright foregrounds. It is unclear what the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Aaron Parsons , Jonathan Pober , Matthew McQuinn , Daniel Jacobs , James Aguirre

(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 Multipurpose Interferometer Array Pathfinder (MIA), developed from the Argentine Institute of Radio Astronomy (IAR), is a radio astronomical instrument based on interferometry techniques, designed for the detection of radio emission…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-29 J. M. Gonzalez , H. Command , G. Valdez

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

The Deep Synoptic Array 10 dish prototype is an instrument designed to detect and localise fast radio bursts with arcsecond accuracy in real time. Deployed at Owens Valley Radio Observatory, it consists of ten 4.5m diameter dishes, equipped…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 J. Kocz , V. Ravi , M. Catha , L. D'Addario , G. Hallinan , R. Hobbs , S. Kulkarni , J. Shi , H. Vedantham , S. Weinreb , D. Woody

We present the first southern-hemisphere all-sky imager and radio-transient monitoring system implemented on two prototype stations of the low-frequency component of the Square Kilometre Array. Since its deployment the system has been used…

Tianyu telescope, an one-meter robotic optical survey instrument to be constructed in Lenghu, Qinghai, China, is designed for detecting transiting exoplanets, variable stars and transients. It requires a highly automated, optimally…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-16 Yicheng Rui , Yifan Xuan , Shuyue Zheng , Kexin Li , Kaiming Cui , Kai Xiao , Jie Zheng , Jun Kai Ng , Hongxuan Jiang , Fabo Feng , Qinghui Sun

We develop a general framework for quantifying the many different contributions to the noise budget of an image made with an array of dishes or aperture array stations. Each noise contribution to the visibility data is associated with a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Robert Braun

This paper describes the system architecture of a newly constructed radio telescope - the Boolardy Engineering Test Array, which is a prototype of the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder telescope. Phased array feed technology is…