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The Askaryan Radio Array (ARA) is a five-station, in-ice radio detector located at the South Pole searching for particle cascades from cosmogenic and astrophysical neutrinos with $\geq10^{17}$ eV of energy. Cascades in this energy regime…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-23 Abigail Bishop , Alan Salcedo Gomez , Marco Stein Muzio

We present the design and science case for a new array of radio antennas to be located at the Pierre Auger Observatory. Six stations of three SKALA antennas each will be deployed around a single water-Cherenkov surface detector triggering…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-04 Stef Verpoest , Frank Schroeder , Alexander Novikov , Alan Coleman , Benjamin Flaggs , Andreas Weindl , Megha Venugopal , Carmen Merx , Andreas Haungs

The redshifted cosmological 21 cm signal emitted by neutral hydrogen during the first billion years of the universe is much fainter relative to other galactic and extragalactic radio emissions, posing a great challenge towards detection of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-26 J. Kariuki Chege , C. H. Jordan , C. Lynch , C. M. Trott , J. L. B. Line , B. Pindor , S. Yoshiura

We detail new techniques for analysing ionospheric activity, using Epoch of Reionisation (EoR) datasets obtained with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), calibrated by the `Real-Time System' (RTS). Using the high spatial- and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-30 C. H. Jordan , S. Murray , C. M. Trott , R. B. Wayth , D. A. Mitchell , M. Rahimi , B. Pindor , P. Procopio , J. Morgan

The interferometric technique known as peeling addresses many of the challenges faced when observing with low-frequency radio arrays, and is a promising tool for the associated calibration systems. We investigate a real-time peeling…

We have shown previously that the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), can detect hundreds of Interplanetary Scintillation (IPS) sources simultaneously across a field of view $\sim30^\circ$ in extent. To test if we can use this capability to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-15 J. Morgan , P. I. McCauley , A. Waszewski , R. Ekers , R. Chhetri

We present a broadband map of polarized diffuse emission at 167-198 MHz developed from data from the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). The map is designed to improve visibility simulation and precision calibration for 21 cm Epoch of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 Ruby Byrne , Miguel F. Morales , Bryna Hazelton , Ian Sullivan , Nichole Barry , Christene Lynch , Jack L. B. Line , Daniel C. Jacobs

Interferometric localisation of transients and pulsars via tied-array beam processing is challenging and can be limited by the native spatial resolution achievable by the instrument, especially at low frequencies and for compact…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 Bradley W. Meyers , Arash Bahramian

This paper presents a framework to compute the receiver noise temperature (Trcv) of two low-frequency radio telescopes, the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) and the Engineering Development Array (EDA). The MWA was selected because it is the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-23 Daniel C. X. Ung , Marcin Sokolowski , Adrian T. Sutinjo , David B. Davidson

Since 2002, the CODALEMA experiment located within the Nan\c{c}ay Radio Observatory studies the ultra-high energy cosmic rays (above 10^{17} eV) arriving in the Earth atmosphere. These cosmic rays interact with the component of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-08 Antony Escudie , Richard Dallier , Didier Charrier , Daniel García-Fernández , Alain Lecacheux , Lilian Martin , Benoît Revenu

The Murchison Widefield Array is a low-frequency Square Kilometre Array precursor located at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Western Australia. Primarily designed as an imaging telescope, but with a flexible signal path, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 S. M. Ord , S. E. Tremblay , S. J. McSweeney , N. D. R. Bhat , C. Sobey , D. A. Mitchell , P. J. Hancock , F. Kirsten

A spectral line image cube generated from 115 minutes of MWA data that covers a field of view of 400 sq. deg. around the Galactic Centre is used to perform the first Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (SETI) with the Murchison…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 S. J. Tingay , C. Tremblay , A. Walsh , R. Urquhart

We report the discovery of the first new pulsar with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), PSR J0036$-$1033, a long-period (0.9 s) nonrecycled pulsar with a dispersion measure (DM) of 23.1 ${\rm pc\,cm^{-3}}$. It was found after processing…

This review provides an introduction to the radio emission by particle cascades, an overview on the various experiments, and explains methods for the radio measurement of air-shower properties. Furthermore, potential applications of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-04 Frank G. Schröder

Employing a 40-kW radio-frequency transmitter just west of Delta, UT, and operating at 54.1 MHz, the TARA (Telescope Array RAdar) experiment seeks radar detection of extensive air showers (EAS) initiated by ultra-high energy cosmic rays…

Experiments designed to detect ultra-high energy (UHE) neutrinos using radio techniques are also capable of detecting the radio signals from cosmic-ray (CR) induced air showers. These CR signals are important both as a background and as a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-07 Shoukat Ali , Dave Z. Besson

The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is a next-generation radio telescope, generating visibility data products continuously at about 400 MB/s. Efficiently managing and archiving this data is a challenge. The MWA Archive consists of dataflows…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-29 Chen Wu , Andreas Wicenec , Dave Pallot , Alessio Checcucci

We have conducted a comprehensive comparison of interplanetary scintillation (IPS) observations taken by the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) with several heliospheric transient event catalogues, over a time period of 7 months during solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-11 A. Waszewski , J. S. Morgan , M. C. M. Cheung , R. Ekers , E. Samara , S. Majumdar , R. Chhetri , N. D. R. Bhat , M. Johnston-Hollitt

A systematic study of 80 known pulsars observed at 185 MHz has been conducted using archival incoherent-sum data from the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). The dataset comprises 48 drift-scan observations from the MWA Voltage Capture System,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-13 Ting Yu , Hongyu Gong , Zhifu Gao , Zhongli Zhang , Zhigang Wen , Yujie Wang , Tao An

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