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Typical radio interferometer observations are performed assuming the source of radiation to be in the far-field of the instrument, resulting in a two-dimensional Fourier relationship between the observed visibilities in the aperture plane…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-31 Steve Prabu , Steven J. Tingay , Andrew Williams

Sensitive radio instruments are optimized for observing faint astronomical sources, and usually need to attenuate the received signal when observing the Sun. There are only a handful of flux density calibrators which can comfortably be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-03 Devojyoti Kansabanik , Surajit Mondal , Divya Oberoi , Ayan Biswas , Shilpi Bhunia

Extremely large-scale antenna arrays are poised to play a pivotal role in sixth-generation (6G) networks. Utilizing such arrays often results in a near-field spherical wave transmission environment, enabling the generation of focused beams,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-31 Qianyu Yang , Anna Guerra , Francesco Guidi , Nir Shlezinger , Haiyang Zhang , Davide Dardari , Baoyun Wang , Yonina C. Eldar

Calibration of instrumental polarization is critical for measuring polarized radio emissions from astrophysical sources to extract the magnetic field information in astrophysical, heliospheric, and terrestrial plasmas. At meter wavelengths,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-08 Devojyoti Kansabanik , Angelos Vourlidas , Soham Dey , Surajit Mondal , Divya Oberoi

Many astronomical sources produce transient phenomena at radio frequencies, but the transient sky at low frequencies (<300 MHz) remains relatively unexplored. Blind surveys with new widefield radio instruments are setting increasingly…

Large-scale beamforming with radio interferometers has the potential to revolutionize the science done with pulsars and fast radio bursts by improving the survey efficiency for these sources. We describe a wide-field beamformer for the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-08 Weiwei Chen , Ewan Barr , Ramesh Karuppusamy , Michael Kramer , Benjamin Stappers

The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), located in Western Australia, is one of the low-frequency precursors of the international Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project. In addition to pursuing its own ambitious science program, it is also a…

We present a method of spatially mapping microwave kinetic inductance detector (MKID) arrays, in a dark setup. MKIDs are superconducting natively multiplexed resonators which enable kilopixel arrays, such as for the proposed Probe…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-15 Chris Albert , Ritoban Basu Thakur , Farzad Faramarzi , Byeong Ho Eom , Sumit Dahal , Andrew Bear , Reinier Janssen , Henry LeDuc , Thomas Stevenson , Peter Day

We forecast the sensitivity with which the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) can measure the 21 cm power spectrum of cosmic hydrogen, using radiative transfer simulations to model reionization and the 21 cm signal. The MWA is sensitive to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Adam Lidz , Oliver Zahn , Matthew McQuinn , Matias Zaldarriaga , Lars Hernquist

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 present Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) monitoring of the Kepler K2 mission Fields 3, 4, and 5 at frequencies of 155 and 186 MHz, from observations contemporaneous with the K2 observations. This work follows from previous MWA and GMRT…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-10 S. J. Tingay , P. J Hancock

We demonstrate a new technique for detecting radio transients based on interferometric closure quantities. The technique uses the bispectrum, the product of visibilities around a closed-loop of baselines of an interferometer. The bispectrum…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Casey J. Law , Geoffrey C. Bower

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

Imaging the low-frequency radio Sun is an intrinsically challenging problem. Meter-wavelength solar emission spans angular scales from a few arcminutes to a few degrees. These emissions show temporal and spectral variability on a sub-second…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-22 Devojyoti Kansabanik

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

Low-frequency observations of pulsars provide a powerful means for probing the microstructure in the turbulent interstellar medium (ISM). Here we report on high-resolution dynamic spectral analysis of our observations of the timing-array…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 N. D. R. Bhat , S. M. Ord , S. E. Tremblay , S. J. McSweeney , S. J. Tingay

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

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

This work is part of ongoing efforts to detect Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) in a spectral window below 300 MHz. We used an image-based method based on the pilot study of Tingay et al. 2015, scaled up…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-06 Ian Kemp , Steven Tingay , Stuart Midgley , Daniel Mitchell

In Paper I, we presented an overview of the Southern-sky MWA Rapid Two-metre (SMART) survey, including the survey design and search pipeline. While the combination of MWA's large field-of-view and the voltage capture system brings a survey…