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Radio interferometers have the ability to precisely localize and better characterize the properties of sources. This ability is having a powerful impact on the study of fast radio transients, where a few milliseconds of data is enough to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 C. J. Law , G. C. Bower , S. Burke-Spolaor , B. J. Butler , P. Demorest , A. Halle , S. Khudikyan , T. J. W. Lazio , M. Pokorny , J. Robnett , M. Rupen

In order to further develop and implement novel drift scan imaging experiments to undertake wide field, high time resolution surveys for millisecond optical transients, an appropriate telescope drive system is required. This paper describes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-18 S. J. Tingay

We have developed, built, and tested a new feed design for interferometric radio telescopes with "large-$N$, small-$D$" designs. Those arrays require low-cost and low-complexity feeds for mass production on reasonable timescales and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-17 Vincent MacKay , Mark Lai , Peter Shmerko , Dallas Wulf , Leonid Belostotski , Keith Vanderlinde

Time delay interferometry (TDI) is essential for suppressing laser frequency noise and achieving the targeted sensitivity for space-borne gravitational wave (GW) missions. In Paper I, we examined the performance of the fiducial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-01 Gang Wang

We describe the design and performance of the hardware system at the Bleien Observatory. The system is designed to deliver a map of the Galaxy for studying the foreground contamination of low-redshift (z=0.13--0.43) H$_{\rm I}$ intensity…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Chihway Chang , Christian Monstein , Joel Akeret , Sebastian Seehars , Alexandre Refregier , Adam Amara , Adrian Glauser , Bruno Stuber

Context. This paper presents a detailed description of the Decametre Pulsar and Transient Survey of the Northern Sky that was carried out in 2012-2017 using the world's largest radio telescope at decametre wavelengths - UTR-2 in Ukraine.…

Next-generation radio arrays, including the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and its pathfinders, will open up new avenues for exciting transient science at radio wavelengths. Their innovative designs, comprising a large number of small…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 N. D. R. Bhat , J. N. Chengalur , P. J. Cox , Y. Gupta , J. Prasad , J. Roy , M. Bailes , S. Burke-Spolaor , S. S. Kudale , W. van Straten

Protoplanetary disc systems observed at radio wavelengths often show excess emission above that expected from a simple extrapolation of thermal dust emission observed at short millimetre wavelengths. Monitoring the emission at radio…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 C. Ubach , S. T. Maddison , C. M. Wright , D. J. Wilner , D. J. P. Lommen , B. Koribalski

The Baryon Mapping eXperiment (BMX) is an interferometric array designed as a pathfinder for a future post-reionization 21 cm intensity mapping survey. It consists of four 4-meter parabolic reflectors each having offset pyramidal horn feed,…

Spectral-line results from a new cryogenic phased array feed (cryoPAF) on the Murriyang telescope at Parkes are presented. This array offers a significant improvement in field of view, aperture efficiency, bandwidth, chromaticity and survey…

The non transparency and severe propagation effects of the terrestrial ionosphere make it impossible for Earth based instruments to study the universe at low radio frequencies. An exploration of the low frequency radio window with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Divya Oberoi , Jean-Louis Pinçon

After reionization, emission in the 21 cm hyperfine transition provides a direct probe of neutral hydrogen distributed in galaxies. Different from galaxy redshift surveys, observation of baryon acoustic oscillations in the cumulative 21 cm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-14 Xiao-Chun Mao

This paper presents the CosmicWeb-21cm array, a novel radio interferometer designed to overcome the key challenges in 21 cm cosmology. Its core innovations include: (1) a multi-scale nested geometry combining a hexagonal core with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 Jiancheng Wang , Jirong Mao , Xiangming Cheng , Yigong Zhang , Jie Su , Xiaogu Zhong , Min Wang , Zhigang Zhang , Qingwei Wang , Yonghua Xu , Zhixuan Li , Longhua Qin , Zhengjun Zhang

The Mini-SiTian Array serves as a pathfinder for the SiTian project, which aims to survey the entire sky in $gri$ bands every 30 minutes, reaching a limiting magnitude of 21. This special issue features 11 papers covering the design,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-03 Yang Huang , Jifeng Liu , Hong Wu , Zhaohui Shang , Ali Luo , Shaoming Hu , Wenyuan Cui , Yongna Mao

The digital correlator is one of the most crucial data processing components of a radio telescope array. With the scale of radio interferometeric array growing, many efforts have been devoted to developing a cost-effective and scalable…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-28 Zhao Wang , Ji-Xia Li , Ke Zhang , 1 Feng-Quan Wu , Hai-Jun Tian , Chen-Hui Niu , Ju-Yong Zhang , Zhi-Ping Chen , Dong-Jin Yu , Xue-Lei Chen

We apply TDI, unfolding the general triangular configuration, to the special case of a linear array of three spacecraft. We show that such an array ("SyZyGy") has, compared with an equilateral triangle GW detector of the same scale,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 F. B. Estabrook , J. W. Armstrong , Massimo Tinto , William Folkner

Phased array feeds (PAFs) for reflector antennas offer the potential for increased reflector field of view and faster survey speeds. To address some of the development challenges that remain for scientifically useful PAFs, including…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Jonathan Landon , Michael Elmer , Jacob Waldron , David Jones , Alan Stemmons , Brian D. Jeffs , Karl F. Warnick , J. Richard Fisher , Roger D. Norrod

Many astronomical sources produce transient phenomena at radio frequencies, but the transient sky at low frequencies (<300 MHz) remains relatively unexplored. Blind surveys with new widefield radio instruments are setting increasingly…

We present a three epoch survey for transient and variables in the extended Chandra Deep Field South at 5.5 GHz with the Australia Telescope Compact Array. A region covering $\sim$0.3 deg$^{2}$ was observed on timescales of 2.5 months and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 M. E. Bell , M. T. Huynh , P. Hancock , Tara Murphy , B. M. Gaensler , D. Burlon , C. Trott , K. Bannister