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We present a graphical interface designed to demonstrate the techniques of radio interferometry used by telescopes like ALMA, e-Merlin, the JVLA and SKA, in a manner accessible to the general public. Interferometry is an observational tech-…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-02 Adam Avison , Samuel J George

The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) complements the Pierre Auger Observatory with 150 radio-antenna stations measuring in the frequency range from 30 to 80 MHz. With an instrumented area of 17 km$^2$, the array constitutes the largest…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-12 Tim Huege

The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is a low-frequency aperture array capable of high-time and frequency resolution astronomy applications such as pulsar studies. The large field-of-view of the MWA (hundreds of square degrees) can also be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 N. A. Swainston , N. D. R. Bhat , I. S. Morrison , S. J. McSweeney , S. M. Ord , S. E. Tremblay , M. Sokolowski

We describe the design and performance of the Engineering Development Array (EDA), which is a low frequency radio telescope comprising 256 dual-polarisation dipole antennas working as a phased-array. The EDA was conceived of, developed, and…

We propose a new technique for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar with colocated antennas which we call phased-MIMO radar. The new technique enjoys the advantages of MIMO radar without sacrificing the main advantage of phased-array…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Aboulnasr Hassanien , Sergiy A. Vorobyov

The Argentine Institute of Radio astronomy (IAR) is equipped with two single-dish 30mts radio antennas capable of performing daily observations of pulsars and radio transients in the southern hemisphere at 1.4 GHz. We aim to introduce to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-15 G. Gancio , C. O. Lousto , L. Combi , S. del Palacio , F. G. López Armengol , J. A. Combi , F. García , P. Kornecki , A. L. Müller , E. Gutierrez , F. Hauscarriaga , G. C. Mancuso

A new method of angle estimation of multiple targets using a distributed interferometric antenna array and wideband space-time modulation is presented in this work. Interferometric array measurements of angle of arrival are generally…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-24 Stavros Vakalis , Jeffrey A. Nanzer

3D mapping of matter distribution in the universe through the 21 cm radio emission of atomic hydrogen HI is a complementary approach to optical surveys for the study of the Large Scale Structures, in particular for measuring the BAO (Baryon…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Réza Ansari , Jean-Eric Campagne , Pierre Colom , Christophe Magneville , Jean-Michel Martin , Marc Moniez , James Rich , Christophe Yèche

The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA), at the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina, measures the radio emission of extensive air showers in the 30-80 MHz frequency range. AERA consists of more than 150 antenna stations distributed over…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Olga Kambeitz

LWA1 is a new large radio telescope array operating in the frequency range 10-88 MHz, located in central New Mexico. The telescope consists of 260 pairs of dipole-type antennas whose outputs are individually digitized and formed into beams.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 S. W. Ellingson , J. Craig , J. Dowell , G. B. Taylor , J. F. Helmboldt

A simple scheme for joint direction of arrival (DOA) and array manifold estimation for a MIMO array system is proposed, where only two transmit antennas are calibrated initially. It first obtains a set of initial DOA results by employing a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-14 Wei Zhang , Wei Liu , Siliang Wu , Ju Wang

Radio interferometry most commonly involves antennas or antenna arrays of identical design. The identical antenna assumption leads to a convenient and useful mathematical simplification resulting in a scalar problem. An interesting variant…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-11 Adrian T. Sutinjo , Daniel Ung , Tim M. Colegate , Randall B. Wayth , Peter J. Hall , Eloy de Lera Acedo

The CHARA Array is a six 1-m telescope optical and near infrared interferometer located at the Mount Wilson Observatory in southern California and operated by the Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy of Georgia State University. The…

The CHARA Array is a six 1-m telescope optical/IR interferometric array located on Mount Wilson California, designed and built by the Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy of Georgia State University. In this paper we describe the…

The visibilities measured by radio astronomical interferometers include non-astronomical correlated signals that arise from the local environment of the array. These correlated signals are especially important in compact arrays such as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-08 Juhun Kwak , John Podczerwinski , Peter Timbie , Réza Ansari , John Marriner , Albert Stebbins , Fengquan Wu , Haotian Cao , Xuelei Chen , Kai He , Jixia Li , Shijie Sun , Jiacong Zhu

A radio interferometer uses time delays to maximize its response to radiation coming from a particular direction. These time delays compensate for differences in the time of arrival of the wavefront at the different elements of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-08 P. Salas , M. A. Brentjens , D. D. Bordenave , J. B. R. Oonk , H. J. A. Röttgering

The Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) is an international radio telescope array, consisting of 38 stations in the Netherlands and 14 international stations spread over Europe. Here we present an observation method to study the jovian decametric…

Radio astronomy observations at frequencies below 10~MHz could provide valuable science, such as measuring the cosmic dark age signal in the redshifted 21~cm hydrogen absorption line, detecting exoplanetary auroral emissions which lead to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-26 Ekaterina Kononov , Mary Knapp

In recent years, several experimental studies have come out to validate the theoretical findings of interference alignment (IA), but only a handful of studies have focused on blind interference alignment. Unlike IA and other interference…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-31 Simon Begashaw , James Chacko , Nikhil Gulati , Danh H. Nguyen , Nagarajan Kandasamy , Kapil R. Dandekar

The Laser Interferometer Lunar Antenna (LILA) presents a novel concept for observing gravitational waves from astrophysical sources at sub-Hertz frequencies. Compared to the Earth, the seismic environment of the moon, while uncertain, is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-15 Brett N. Shapiro