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A recent observation by the EDGES collaboration shows a strong absorption signal in the global 21-cm spectrum from around a redshift of $z = 17$. This absorption is stronger than the maximum prediction by existing models and indicates that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-11 Suman Chatterjee , Somnath Bharadwaj

We summarize the design, capabilities, and some of the priority science goals of a next generation Very Large Array (ngVLA). The ngVLA is an interferometric array with 10x larger effective collecting area and 10x higher spatial resolution…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-23 C. L. Carilli , M. McKinnon , J. Ott , A. Beasley , A. Isella , E. Murphy , A. Leroy , C. Casey , A. Moullet , M. Lacy , J. Hodge , G. Bower , P. Demorest , C. Hull , M. Hughes , J. di Francesco , D. Narayanan , B. Kent , B. Clark , B. Butler

The radio-wavelength detection of extensive air showers (EAS) initiated by cosmic-ray interactions in the Earth's atmosphere is a promising technique for investigating the origin of these particles and the physics of their interactions. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-29 A. Williamson , C. W. James , S. J. Tingay , S. J. McSweeney , S. M. Ord

The first station of the Long Wavelength Array (LWA1) was completed in April 2011 and is currently performing observations resulting from its first call for proposals in addition to a continuing program of commissioning and characterization…

We conducted an all-sky imaging transient search with the Owens Valley Radio Observatory Long Wavelength Array (OVRO-LWA) data collected during the Perseid meteor shower in 2018. The data collection during the meteor shower was motivated to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-12 S. S. Varghese , J. Dowell , K. S. Obenberger , G. B. Taylor , M. Anderson , G. Hallinan

The Cosmic Dawn was marked by the formation of the first stars, and preceded the Epoch of Reionization (EoR), when the Universe underwent a fundamental transformation caused by the radiation from these first stars and galaxies.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-04 Oscar Sage David O'Hara , Fred Dulwich , Eloy de Lera Acedo , Jiten Dhandha , Thomas Gessey-Jones , Dominic Anstey , Anastasia Fialkov

To continue the unparalleled success of the Very Large Array (VLA) for radio astronomy, the facility is currently being converted to become the 'Expanded VLA' (EVLA). The EVLA will radically improve the VLA in order to cover the full…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Juergen Ott , Rick Perley , Michael Rupen , the EVLA team

Modern radio interferometers are designed with increasingly sprawling geographical footprints, offering enhanced sensitivity and resolution. However, managing such extensive facilities presents operational challenges that can potentially…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 C. A. Taylor , J. Dowell , G. B. Taylor , K. S. Obenberger , S. I. Chastain , J. Verastegui , L. E. Cordonnier , P. Kumar , E. Sheldahl , S. Bruzewski , T. Dolch , C. A. Siders

In the near future, the Expanded Very Large Array (EVLA) will allow surveys for maser sources with unprecedented sensitivity, spectral coverage and spectroscopic capabilities. In particular, comprehensive surveys for many maser species with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Karl M. Menten

The Atacama Large millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA) makes use of water vapour radiometers (WVR), which monitor the atmospheric water vapour line at 183 GHz along the line of sight above each antenna to correct for phase delays…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 L. T. Maud , R. P. J. Tilanus , T. A. van Kempen , M. R. Hogerheijde , M. Schmalzl , I. Yoon , Y. Contreras , M. C. Toribio , Y. Asaki , W. R. F. Dent , E. Fomalont , S. Matsushita

Detection of the mostly geomagnetically generated radio emission of cosmic-ray air showers provides an alternative to air-Cherenkov and air-fluorescence detection, since it is not limited to clear nights. Like these established methods, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-20 Frank G. Schröder

The full array of the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) has been in operation since July 2021. For its kilometer-square array (KM2A), we have optimized the selection criteria for very high and ultra-high energy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-04 LHAASO collaboration

The observation of space-time variations in fundamental constants would provide strong evidence for the existence of new light degrees of freedom in the theory of Nature. Robustly constraining such scenarios requires exploiting observations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-17 Laura Lopez-Honorez , Olga Mena , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz , Pablo Villanueva-Domingo , Samuel J. Witte

We present results from a narrow-band optical survey of a contiguous area of 1.95 deg^2, covered by the Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS). Both optical narrow-band (lambda_c = 8150 AA and Delta_lambda = 120 AA) and broad-band (B, V, g', r',…

Observations of the redshifted 21-cm line of atomic hydrogen have resulted in several upper limits on the 21-cm power spectrum and a tentative detection of the sky-averaged signal at $z\sim17$. Made with the EDGES Low-Band antenna, this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-02 H. T. J. Bevins , A. Fialkov , E. de Lera Acedo , W. J. Handley , S. Singh , R. Subrahmanyan , R. Barkana

The exploration of the Cosmic Dawn, the period of the Universe during which the first stars and galaxies were formed, is one of the last frontiers of modern astronomy and cosmology. The redshifted 21-cm line emission from neutral hydrogen…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-22 F. G. Mertens , B. Semelin , L. V. E. Koopmans

We compare quasar selection techniques based on their optical variability using data from the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey (CRTS). We introduce a new technique based on Slepian wavelet variance (SWV) that shows comparable or better…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 Matthew J. Graham , S. G. Djorgovski , Andrew J. Drake , Ashish A. Mahabal , Melissa Chang , Daniel Stern , Ciro Donalek , Eilat Glikman

The global 21 cm signal from Cosmic Dawn (CD) and the Epoch of Reionization (EoR), at redshifts $z \sim 6-30$, probes the nature of first sources of radiation as well as physics of the Inter-Galactic Medium (IGM). Given that the signal is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-25 Saurabh Singh , Ravi Subrahmanyan , N. Udaya Shankar , Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao , B. S. Girish , A. Raghunathan , R. Somashekar , K. S. Srivani

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will open the mHz frequency window of the gravitational wave (GW) landscape. Among all the new GW sources expected to emit in this frequency band, extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) constitute…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-03 Danny Laghi , Nicola Tamanini , Walter Del Pozzo , Alberto Sesana , Jonathan Gair , Stanislav Babak , David Izquierdo-Villalba