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Although the primary goal of ESA's Planck mission is to produce high resolution maps of the temperature and polarization anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), its high-sensitivity all-sky surveys of extragalactic sources at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. De Zotti , C. Burigana , M. Negrello , S. Tinti , R. Ricci , L. Silva , J. Gonzalez-Nuevo , L. Toffolatti

Aiming to fill a crucial gap in our observational knowledge of the early Universe, experiments around the world continue to attempt to verify the claimed detection of the redshifted 21-cm signal from Cosmic Dawn by the EDGES experiment.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-15 B. McKinley , C. M. Trott , M. Sokolowski , R. B. Wayth , A. Sutinjo , N. Patra , J. Nambissan T. , D. C. X. Ung

We present the Bayesian Global Sky Model (B-GSM), a new absolutely calibrated model of the diffuse Galactic foreground at frequencies below 408 MHz. We assemble a dataset of publicly available diffuse emission maps at frequencies between 45…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-08 George Carter , Will Handley , Mark Ashdown , Nima Razavi-Ghods

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) is a polarization-sensitive telescope array located at an altitude of 5,200 m in the Chilean Atacama Desert. CLASS is designed to measure "E-mode" (even parity) and "B-mode" (odd parity)…

Low-frequency spectral studies of radio pulsars represent a key method for uncovering their emission mechanisms, magnetospheric structure, and signal interactions with the surrounding interstellar medium (ISM). In recent years, more…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-13 Ting Yu , Zhongli Zhang , Hongyu Gong , Zhigang Wen

In the context of the Galactic Emission Mapping collaboration, a galactic survey at 5GHz is in preparation to properly characterize the galactic foreground to the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR). For the North sky survey, a new…

We begin the search for extremely-low mass ($M\leq0.3M_{\odot}$, ELM) white dwarfs (WDs) in the southern sky based on photometry from the VST ATLAS and SkyMapper surveys. We use a similar color-selection method as the Hypervelocity star…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-13 Alekzander Kosakowski , Mukremin Kilic , Warren R. Brown , Alexandros Gianninas

Experiments designed to measure the redshifted 21~cm line from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) are challenged by strong astrophysical foreground contamination, ionospheric distortions, complex instrumental response and other different types…

Precision phase readout of optical beat note signals is one of the core techniques required for intersatellite laser interferometry. Future space based gravitational wave detectors like eLISA require such a readout over a wide range of MHz…

For the technology development of the mission EXCEDE (EXoplanetary Circumstellar Environments and Disk Explorer) - a 0.7 m telescope equipped with a Phase-Induced Amplitude Apodization Coronagraph (PIAA-C) and a 2000-element MEMS deformable…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Julien Lozi , Ruslan Belikov , Sandrine J. Thomas , Eugene Pluzhnik , Eduardo Bendek , Olivier Guyon , Glenn Schneider

The successful European Space Agency (ESA) Planck mission has mapped the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature anisotropy with unprecedented accuracy. However, Planck was not designed to detect the polarised components of the CMB…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-01 G. Pisano , B. Maffei , M. W. Ng , V. Haynes , M. Brown , F. Noviello , P. de Bernardis , S. Masi , F. Piacentini , L. Pagano , M. Salatino , B. Ellison , M. Henry , P. de Maagt , B. Shortt

The LSPE is a balloon-borne mission aimed at measuring the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at large angular scales, and in particular to constrain the curl component of CMB polarization (B-modes) produced by tensor…

The Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope is an international aperture synthesis radio telescope used to study the Universe at low frequencies. One of the goals of the LOFAR telescope is to conduct deep wide-field surveys. Here we…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-11 A. P. Mechev , J. B. R. Oonk , A. Danezi , T. W. Shimwell , C. Schrijvers , H. T. Intema , A. Plaat , H. J. A. Röttgering

SPOrt (Sky Polarization Observatory) is a space experiment to be flown on the International Space Station during Early Utilization Phase aimed at measuring the microwave polarized emission with FWHM = 7deg, in the frequency range 22-90 GHz.…

Recent polarimetric surveys of extragalactic radio sources (ERS) at frequencies \nu>1GHz are reviewed. By exploiting all the most relevant data on the polarized emission of ERS we study the frequency dependence of polarization properties of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-27 M. Tucci , L. Toffolatti

LOFAR, the Low Frequency Array, is a next-generation radio telescope that is being built in Northern Europe and expected to be fully operational at the end of this decade. It will operate at frequencies from 15 to 240 MHz (corresponding to…