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We describe the parameters of a low-frequency all-sky survey of compact radio sources using Interplanetary Scintillation (IPS), undertaken with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). While this survey gives important complementary information…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-08 J. S. Morgan , J-P. Macquart , R. Chhetri , R. D. Ekers , S. J. Tingay , E. M. Sadler

Diffuse, non-thermal emission in galaxy clusters is increasingly being detected in low-frequency radio surveys and images. We present a new diffuse, steep-spectrum, non-thermal radio source within the cluster Abell 1127 found in survey data…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-31 Stefan W. Duchesne , Melanie Johnston-Hollitt , Zhenghao Zhu , Randall B. Wayth , Jack L. B. Line

We present a targeted search for low-frequency (144--215\,MHz) FRB emission from five repeating FRBs using 23.3\,hr of archival data taken with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) Voltage Capture System (VCS) between 2014 September and 2020…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-30 J. Tian , G. E. Anderson , P. J. Hancock , J. C. A. Miller-Jones , M. Sokolowski , C. W. James , N. D. R. Bhat , N. A. Swainston , D. Ung , B. W. Meyers

A new high time resolution observing mode for the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is described, enabling full polarimetric observations with up to 30.72 MHz of bandwidth and a time resolution of ~0.8 $\mu$s. This mode makes use of a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 S. J. McSweeney , S. M. Ord , N. D. R. Bhat , B. W. Meyers , S. E. Tremblay , J. Jones , B. Crosse , K. R. Smith

This work is part of ongoing efforts to detect Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) in a spectral window below 300 MHz. We used an image-based method based on the pilot study of Tingay et al. 2015, scaled up…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-06 Ian Kemp , Steven Tingay , Stuart Midgley , Daniel Mitchell

The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), and its recently-developed Voltage Capture System (VCS), facilitates extending the low-frequency range of pulsar observations at high-time and -frequency resolution in the Southern Hemisphere, providing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-23 Mengyao Xue , N. D. R. Bhat , S. E. Tremblay , S. M. Ord , C. Sobey , N. A. Swainston , D. L. Kaplan , Simon Johnston , B. W. Meyers , S. J. McSweeney

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are short timescale (<<1 s) astrophysical radio signals, presumed to be a signature of cataclysmic events of extragalactic origin. The discovery of six high-redshift events at ~1400 MHz from the Parkes radio…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Cathryn M. Trott , Steven J. Tingay , Randall B. Wayth

The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is an electronically steered low frequency ($<300$\,MHz) radio interferometer, with a `slew' time less than 8seconds. Low frequency ($\sim 100$\,MHz) radio telescopes are ideally suited for rapid-response…

We present spectropolarimetric imaging observations of the solar corona at low frequencies (80 - 240 MHz) using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). These images are the first of their kind, and we introduce an algorithm to mitigate an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 Patrick I. McCauley , Iver H. Cairns , Stephen M. White , Surajit Mondal , Emil Lenc , John Morgan , Divya Oberoi

Some of the most interesting insights into solar physics and space weather come from studying radio emissions associated with solar activity, which remain inherently unpredictable. Hence, a real-time triggering system is needed for solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-05 Deepan Patra , Devojyoti Kansabanik , Divya Oberoi , Yûki Kubo , Bradley W. Meyers , Andrew Williams , Soham Dey , Naoto Nishizuka

Interferometric arrays seeking to measure the 21 cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization must contend with overwhelmingly bright emission from foreground sources. Accurate recovery of the 21 cm signal will require precise calibration of…

We report characterization results for an engineering prototype of a next-generation low-frequency radio astronomy array. This prototype, which we refer to as the Aperture Array Verification System 0.5 (AAVS0.5), is a sparse pseudo-random…

We have analyzed the efficiency in source detection and flux density estimation of blind and non-blind detection techniques exploiting the MHW2 filter applied to the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) 5-year maps. A comparison with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Massardi , M. López-Caniego , J. González-Nuevo , D. Herranz , G. De Zotti , J. L. Sanz

The development of sensitive large format imaging arrays for the infrared promises to provide revolutionary capabilities for space astronomy. For example, the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) on SIRTF will use four 256 x 256 arrays to provide…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 D. J. Fixsen , S. H. Moseley , R. G. Arendt

We describe the spectrophotometric calibration of the Mid-Infrared Instrument's (MIRI) Medium Resolution Spectrometer (MRS) aboard the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This calibration is complicated by a time-dependent evolution in the…

The Mingantu Spectral Radioheliograph (MUSER), a new generation of solar dedicated radio imaging-spectroscopic telescope, has realized high-time, high-angular, and high-frequency resolution imaging of the sun over an ultra-broadband…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-17 Zhichao Zhou , Yihua Yan , Linjie Chen , Wei Wang , Suli Ma

The AAO/UKST SuperCOSMOS H$\alpha$ Survey (SHS) was, when completed in 2003, a powerful addition to extant wide-field surveys. The combination of areal coverage, spatial resolution and sensitivity in a narrow imaging band, still marks it…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 David J. Frew , Ivan S. Bojicic , Quentin A. Parker , Mark J. Pierce , M. L. P. Gunawardhana , W. A. Reid