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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

For the next generation of radio interferometric telescopes it is of paramount importance to incorporate wide field-of-view (WFOV) considerations in interferometric imaging, otherwise the fidelity of reconstructed images will suffer…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-04 J. D. McEwen , Y. Wiaux

Radio interferometers are well suited to studies of both total intensity and polarized intensity fluctuations of the cosmic microwave background radiation, and they have been used successfully in measurements of both the primary and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. C. S. Readhead , T. J. Pearson

Next-generation radio interferometric telescopes will exhibit non-coplanar baseline configurations and wide field-of-views, inducing a w-modulation of the sky image, which in turn induces the spread spectrum effect. We revisit the impact of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-27 L. Wolz , J. D. McEwen , F. B. Abdalla , R. E. Carrillo , Y. Wiaux

We present a formalism for analyzing interferometric observations of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy and polarization data. The formalism is based upon the ell-space expansion of the angular power spectrum favoured in recent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-18 Martin White , John E. Carlstrom , Mark Dragovan , William L. Holzapfel

We study the complex visibilities of the cosmic microwave background anisotropies that are observables in interferometric observations of the cosmic microwave background, using the multipole expansion methods commonly adopted in analyzing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-31 Kin-Wang Ng

Matter-wave interferometry with solids is highly susceptible to minute fluctuations of environmental fields, including gravitational effects from distant sources. Hence, experiments require a degree of shielding that is extraordinarily…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-23 Julen S. Pedernales , Martin B. Plenio

Microwave, submillimetre-wave, and far-infrared phased arrays are of considerable importance for astronomy. We consider the behaviour imaging phased arrays and interferometric phased arrays from a functional perspective. It is shown that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Stafford Withington , George Saklatvala , Michael P. Hobson

Despite the fact that the physics of the cosmic microwave background anisotropies is most naturally expressed in Fourier space, pixelised maps are almost always used in the analysis and simulation of microwave data. A complementary approach…

Radio interferometers consisting of identical antennas arranged on a regular lattice permit fast Fourier transform beamforming, which reduces the correlation cost from $\mathcal{O}(n^2)$ in the number of antennas to $\mathcal{O}(n\log n)$.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-20 Kiyoshi W. Masui , J. Richard Shaw , Cherry Ng , Kendrick M. Smith , Keith Vanderlinde , Adiv Paradise

The primary results of most observations of cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy are estimates of the angular power spectrum averaged through some broad band, called band-powers. These estimates are in turn what are used to produce…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-25 Lloyd Knox

Astronomers usually need the highest angular resolution possible, but the blurring effect of diffraction imposes a fundamental limit on the image quality from any single telescope. Interferometry allows light collected at widely-separated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 John D. Monnier , Ronald J. Allen

We combine detections of anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation with observations of inhomogeneity in the large-scale distribution of galaxies to test the predictions of models of cosmological structure formation. This…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Eric Gawiser

We consider a troublesome form of non-isoplanatism in synthesis radio telescopes: non-coplanar baselines. We present a novel interpretation of the non-coplanar baselines effect as being due to differential Fresnel diffraction in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. J. Cornwell , K. Golap , S. Bhatnagar

Broad bandwidth, infrared light sources have the potential to revolutionize inertial confinement fusion (ICF) by suppressing laser-plasma instabilities. There is, however, a tradeoff: The broad bandwidth precludes high efficiency conversion…

Using the Cosmic Background Imager, a 13-element interferometer array operating in the 26-36 GHz frequency band, we have observed 40 sq deg of sky in three pairs of fields, each ~ 145 x 165 arcmin, using overlapping pointings (mosaicing).…

A number of experiments for measuring anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background use scanning strategies in which temperature fluctuations are measured along circular scans on the sky. It is possible, from a large number of such…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. Delabrouille , K. M. Górski , E. Hivon

Classical single-mode fiber interferometers, using one fiber per aperture, have very limited imaging capabilities and small field of view. Observations of extended sources (resolved by one aperture) cannot be fully corrected for wavefront…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Olivier Guyon

With the development of modern radio interferometers, wide-field continuum surveys have been planned and undertaken, for which accurate wide-field imaging methods are essential. Based on the widely-used W-stacking method, we propose a new…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-01 Haoyang Ye , Steve F. Gull , Sze M. Tan , Bojan Nikolic

The primary goal of the MAP satellite, now in orbit, is to make high fidelity polarization sensitive maps of the full sky in five frequency bands between 20 and 100 GHz. From these maps we will characterize the properties of the cosmic…