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In this paper we present a wide-field radio survey at 300 MHz covering the sky from $-90^\circ \leq \delta_\text{J2000} \lesssim +40^\circ$ using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). This 300-MHz survey follows the Galactic and…

The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) is an enhancement of the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina. Covering about View the $17\,$km$^2$, AERA is the world-largest antenna array for cosmic-ray observation. It consists of more than 150…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Frank G. Schröder

The 21 cm bispectrum (BS) offers a powerful probe of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR), but its observational access is severely hindered by dominant astrophysical foregrounds. Considering Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) observations at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-20 Sukhdeep Singh Gill , Khandakar Md Asif Elahi , Somnath Bharadwaj , Shiv K. Sethi , Akash Kumar Patwa

The number of active and non active satellites in Earth orbit has dramatically increased in recent decades, requiring the development of novel surveillance techniques to monitor and track them. In this paper, we build upon previous…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-01 Steve Prabu , Paul J Hancock , Xiang Zhang , 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 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

Over the last decades, radio detection of air showers has been established as a detection technique for ultra-high-energy cosmic-rays impinging on the Earth's atmosphere with energies far beyond LHC energies. Today's second-generation of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-14 Anne Zilles , Didier Charrier , Kumiko Kotera , Sandra Le Coz , Olivier Martineau-Huynh , Clementina Medina , Valentin Niess , Matias Tueros , Krijn de Vries

The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is a new low frequency radio telescope operating on the Square Kilometre Array site in Western Australia. MWA is generating tens of terabytes of data daily. The size of the required data storage has…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-09 Vyacheslav V. Kitaeff

Following from the results of the first systematic modern low frequency Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), which was directed toward a Galactic Center field, we report a second survey…

Popular Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 S. J. Tingay , C. D. Tremblay , S. Croft

Measurements of 21 cm Epoch of Reionization (EoR) structure are subject to systematics originating from both the analysis and the observation conditions. Using 2013 data from the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), we show the importance of…

Using the final 128 antenna locations of the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), we calculate its sensitivity to the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) power spectrum of red- shifted 21 cm emission for a fiducial model and provide the tools to…

The Murchison Widefield Array is a low-frequency Square Kilometre Array precursor located at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Western Australia. Primarily designed as an imaging telescope, but with a flexible signal path, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 S. M. Ord , S. E. Tremblay , S. J. McSweeney , N. D. R. Bhat , C. Sobey , D. A. Mitchell , P. J. Hancock , F. Kirsten

We follow up on a report by Vacca et al. (2018) of 28 candidate large-scale diffuse synchrotron sources in an 8{\deg}$\times$8{\deg} area of the sky (centred at RA 5h0m0s Dec 5{\deg}48'0''). These sources were originally observed at 1.4 GHz…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-27 Torrance Hodgson , Melanie Johnston-Hollitt , Benajmin McKinley , Tessa Vernstrom , Valentina Vacca

Synchrotron emission pervades the Galactic plane at low radio frequencies, originating from cosmic ray electrons interacting with the Galactic magnetic field. Using a low-frequency radio telescope, the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), we…

Ultra-high energy cosmic rays impinging onto the atmosphere induce huge cascades of secondary particles. The measurement of the energy radiated by these air showers in form of radio waves enables an accurate measurement of the cosmic-ray…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Christian Glaser

Several attempts to detect extensive air showers (EAS) induced by ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays have been conducted in the last decade based on the molecular Bremsstrahlung radiation (MBR) at GHz frequencies from quasi-elastic collisions of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-08 Olivier Deligny

Nearly 50 years ago, the first radio signals from cosmic ray air showers were detected. After many successful studies, however, research ceased not even 10 years later. Only a decade ago, the field was revived with the application of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Tim Huege

The Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) is the only existing radio interferometer able to observe at ultra-low frequencies (<100 MHz) with high resolution (<15") and high sensitivity (<1 mJy/beam). To exploit these capabilities, the LOFAR Surveys…

Muon component of extensive air showers (EAS) initiated by cosmic ray particles carries information on the primary particle identity. We show that the muon content of EAS could be measured in a broad energy range from 10-100 TeV up to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-05 A. Neronov , D. V. Semikoz , Ie. Vovk , R. Mirzoyan
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