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The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is a low frequency radio interferometer designed and developed by an international consortium, operated on behalf of the consortium by Curtin University. The MWA is a Precursor for the low frequency…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-11 Steven J. Tingay

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

The digital correlator is a crucial element in a modern radio telescope. In this paper we describe a scalable design of the correlator system for the Tianlai pathfinder array, which is an experiment dedicated to test the key technologies…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-24 Chenhui Niu , Qunxiong Wang , David MacMahon , Fengquan Wu , Xuelei Chen , Jixia Li , Haijun Tian , Guillaume Shippee , Dan Werthimer , Xiaoping Zheng

Detection of the fluctuations in 21 cm line emission from neutral hydrogen during the Epoch of Reionization in thousand hour integrations poses stringent requirements on calibration and image quality, both of which necessitate accurate…

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

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

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

Radio telescopes that employ arrays of many antennas are in operation, and ever larger ones are being designed and proposed. Signals from the antennas are combined by cross-correlation. For $N$ antennas, the cost and power consumption of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-19 Larry R. D'Addario , Douglas Wang

We have developed a FX-architecture digital spectro-correlator, Atacama Compact Array Correlator for the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. The ACA Correlator processes four pairs of dual polarization signals, whose bandwidth is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-22 Sachiko K. Okumura , Yoshihiro Chikada , Takeshi Kamazaki , Takeshi Okuda , Yasutaka Kurono , Satoru Iguchi

A 32 GHz bandwidth VLBI capable correlator and phased array has been designed and deployed at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Submillimeter Array (SMA). The SMA Wideband Astronomical ROACH2 Machine (SWARM) integrates two…

Software correlation, where a correlation algorithm written in a high-level language such as C++ is run on commodity computer hardware, has become increasingly attractive for small to medium sized and/or bandwidth constrained radio…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-19 A. T. Deller , W. F. Brisken , C. J. Phillips , J. Morgan , W. Alef , R. Cappallo , E. Middelberg , J. Romney , H. Rottmann , S. J. Tingay , R. Wayth

We present the third data release for the Galactic and Extragalactic All-Sky Murchison Widefield Array eXtended (GLEAM-X) survey, covering = 3800 deg2 of the southern Galactic Plane (GP) with \ang{233} < l < \ang{44} and |b| < \ang{11}…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-10 S. Mantovanini , N. Hurley-Walker , K. Ross , S. W. Duchesne , G. Anderson , T. J. Galvin

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 describe a new low-frequency wideband radio survey of the southern sky. Observations covering 72 - 231 MHz and Declinations south of $+30^\circ$ have been performed with the Murchison Widefield Array "extended" Phase II configuration…

The science cases for incorporating high time resolution capabilities into modern radio telescopes are as numerous as they are compelling. Science targets range from exotic sources such as pulsars, to our Sun, to recently detected possible…

Next generation communication and sensing require enabling technologies for miniaturized and efficient heterogeneous systems while integrating technologies ranging from silicon to compound semiconductors and from photonic chips to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-17 Najme Ebrahimi

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…