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Detecting primordial fluctuations from the cosmic dark ages requires extremely large low-frequency radio telescope arrays deployed on the far side of the Moon. The antenna of such an array must be lightweight, easily storable and…

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The polarization properties of radio sources at very low frequencies (<200 MHz) have not been widely measured, but the new generation of low-frequency radio telescopes, including the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR: a Square Kilometre Array Low…

Observations of synchrotron emission at low radio frequencies reveal a labyrinth of polarised Galactic structures. However, the explanation for the wealth of structures remains uncertain due to the complex interactions between the…

Due to ionosphere absorption and the interference by natural and artificial radio emissions, astronomical observation from the ground becomes very difficult at the wavelengths of decametre or longer, which we shall refer as the ultralong…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-26 Xuelei Chen , Jingye Yan , Li Deng , Fengquan Wu , Lin Wu , Yidong Xu , Li Zhou

Optical phase-array antennas can be used to control not only the angular distribution but also the polarization of fluorescence from quantum emitters. The emission pattern of the resulting system is determined by the properties of the…

Optics · Physics 2015-12-02 Abbas Mohtashami , Clara I. Osorio , A. Femius Koenderink

A lunar orbit interferometer array suffers from a number of systematics. Beyond systematics induced by the imaging algorithm itself and thermal noise considered in Paper I, phase errors due to instrumental inconsistency between receivers,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-01 Meng Zhou , Furen Deng , Yidong Xu , Li Zhou , Xuelei Chen

Numerical simulations offer the unique possibility to forecast the results of surveys and targeted observations that will be performed with next generation instruments like the Square Kilometre Array. In this paper, we investigate for the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-27 F. Loi , M. Murgia , F. Govoni , V. Vacca , I. Prandoni , A. Bonafede , L. Feretti

NASA's return to the Moon presents unparalleled opportunities to advance high-impact scientific capabilities. At the cutting edge of these possibilities are extremely high-resolution interferometric observations at visible and ultraviolet…

The cosmic "Dark Ages" is the period between the last scattering of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and the appearance of the first luminous sources, spanning redshifts $1100\gtrsim z\gtrsim 30$. The only way to observe this period is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-15 Willow Smith , Jonathan C. Pober

We present stacking polarized intensity as a means to study the polarization of sources that are too faint to be detected individually in surveys of polarized radio sources. Stacking offers not only high sensitivity to the median signal of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 J. M. Stil , B. W. Keller , S. J. George , A. R. Taylor

Faraday tomography allows us to map diffuse polarized synchrotron emission from our Galaxy and use it to interpret the magnetic field in the interstellar medium (ISM). We have applied Faraday tomography to 60 observations from the LOFAR…

This study evaluates the impact of Starlink satellites on low-frequency radio astronomy below 100 MHz, focusing on challenges on data processing and scientific goals. We conducted 40 hours of imaging observations using NenuFAR, in the…

We present the detection and characterization of fluctuations in linearly polarized emission from the atmosphere above the South Pole. These measurements make use of data from the SPT-3G receiver on the South Pole Telescope in three…

The aim of this study is to probe the sub-mJy polarized source population with LOFAR. We present the method used to stack LOFAR polarization datasets, the resulting catalog of polarized sources, and the derived polarized source counts. The…

The Square Kilometre Array's Low Frequency instrument (SKA-LOW) will be the most sensitive aperture array ever used for radio astronomy, and will operate in the under-sampled regime for most of the frequency band where grating-lobes pose…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-28 Benjamin Mort , Fred Dulwich , Nima Razavi-Ghods , Eloy de Lera Acedo , Keith Grainge

In this data release from the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) we present 120-168MHz images covering 27% of the northern sky. Our coverage is split into two regions centred at approximately 12h45m +44$^\circ$30' and 1h00m +28$^\circ$00'…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-25 T. W. Shimwell , M. J. Hardcastle , C. Tasse , P. N. Best , H. J. A. Röttgering , W. L. Williams , A. Botteon , A. Drabent , A. Mechev , A. Shulevski , R. J. van Weeren , L. Bester , M. Brüggen , G. Brunetti , J. R. Callingham , K. T. Chyży , J. E. Conway , T. J. Dijkema , K. Duncan , F. de Gasperin , C. L. Hale , M. Haverkorn , B. Hugo , N. Jackson , M. Mevius , G. K. Miley , L. K. Morabito , R. Morganti , A. Offringa , J. B. R. Oonk , D. Rafferty , J. Sabater , D. J. B. Smith , D. J. Schwarz , O. Smirnov , S. P. O'Sullivan , H. Vedantham , G. J. White , J. G. Albert , L. Alegre , B. Asabere , D. J. Bacon , A. Bonafede , E. Bonnassieux , M. Brienza , M. Bilicki , M. Bonato , G. Calistro Rivera , R. Cassano , R. Cochrane , J. H. Croston , V. Cuciti , D. Dallacasa , A. Danezi , R. J. Dettmar , G. Di Gennaro , H. W. Edler , T. A. Enßlin , K. L. Emig , T. M. O. Franzen , C. García-Vergara , Y. G. Grange , G. Gürkan , M. Hajduk , G. Heald , V. Heesen , D. N. Hoang , M. Hoeft , C. Horellou , M. Iacobelli , M. Jamrozy , V. Jelić , R. Kondapally , P. Kukreti , M. Kunert-Bajraszewska , M. Magliocchetti , V. Mahatma , K. Małek , S. Mandal , F. Massaro , Z. Meyer-Zhao , B. Mingo , R. I. J. Mostert , D. G. Nair , S. J. Nakoneczny , B. Nikiel-Wroczyński , E. Orrú , U. Pajdosz-Śmierciak , T. Pasini , I. Prandoni , H. E. van Piggelen , K. Rajpurohit , E. Retana-Montenegro , C. J. Riseley , A. Rowlinson , A. Saxena , C. Schrijvers , F. Sweijen , T. M. Siewert , R. Timmerman , M. Vaccari , J. Vink , J. L. West , A. Wołowska , X. Zhang , J. Zheng

We combine the latest datasets obtained with different surveys to study the frequency dependence of polarized emission coming from Extragalactic Radio Sources (ERS). We consider data over a very wide frequency range starting from $1.4$ GHz…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 G. Puglisi , V. Galluzzi , L. Bonavera , J. Gonzalez-Nuevo , A. Lapi , M. Massardi , F. Perrotta , C. Baccigalupi , A. Celotti , L. Danese

Radio polarization measurements of pulsed emission from pulsars offer a valuable insight into the basic geometry of the neutron star: inclination angle between the magnetic and rotation axis and inclination of the line of sight. So far, all…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-11 J. Pétri

Next generation radio telescope arrays are being designed and commissioned to accurately measure polarized intensity and rotation measures across the entire sky through deep, wide-field radio interferometric surveys. Radio interferometer…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 P. Jagannathan , S. Bhatnagar , U. Rau , A. R. Taylor

An understanding of cosmic magnetism requires converting the polarization properties of extragalactic radio sources into the rest-frame in which the corresponding polarized emission or Faraday rotation is produced. Motivated by this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-02 J. S. Farnes , B. M. Gaensler , E. Carretti