氢再电离时代阵列（HERA）二期部署与调试
天体物理仪器与方法
2024-04-25 v1
摘要
本文介绍了氢再电离时代阵列（HERA）二期系统的设计与部署。HERA 被设计为一项阶段性实验，旨在测量再电离时代的 21 厘米辐射。一期阵列的初步结果已于 2022 年初发表，二期系统的部署即将完成。我们描述了二期系统的设计，并讨论了调试进展及未来的升级计划。作为指定的平方公里阵列（SKA）探路仪器，我们还展示了一些“案例研究”，调查了在调试二期系统时观察到的系统效应，这些研究可能对未来的阵列设计和运行有所帮助。常见的故障模式在不同仪器中可能以相似的方式显现，一旦识别出源头，许多此类污染源是可以减轻的。
引用
@article{arxiv.2401.04304,
title = {Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA) Phase II Deployment and Commissioning},
author = {Lindsay M. Berkhout and Daniel C. Jacobs and Zuhra Abdurashidova and Tyrone Adams and James E. Aguirre and Paul Alexander and Zaki S. Ali and Rushelle Baartman and Yanga Balfour and Adam P. Beardsley and Gianni Bernardi and Tashalee S. Billings and Judd D. Bowman and Richard F. Bradley and Philip Bull and Jacob Burba and Steven Carey and Chris L. Carilli and Kai-Feng Chen and Carina Cheng and Samir Choudhuri and David R. DeBoer and Eloy de Lera Acedo and Matt Dexter and Joshua S. Dillon and Scott Dynes and Nico Eksteen and John Ely and Aaron Ewall-Wice and Nicolas Fagnoni and Randall Fritz and Steven R. Furlanetto and Kingsley Gale-Sides and Hugh Garsden and Bharat Kumar Gehlot and Abhik Ghosh and Brian Glendenning and Adelie Gorce and Deepthi Gorthi and Bradley Greig and Jasper Grobbelaar and Ziyaad Halday and Bryna J. Hazelton and Jacqueline N. Hewitt and Jack Hickish and Tian Huang and Alec Josaitis and Austin Julius and MacCalvin Kariseb and Nicholas S. Kern and Joshua Kerrigan and Honggeun Kim and Piyanat Kittiwisit and Saul A. Kohn and Matthew Kolopanis and Adam Lanman and Paul La Plante and Adrian Liu and Anita Loots and Yin-Zhe Ma and David Harold Edward MacMahon and Lourence Malan and Cresshim Malgas and Keith Malgas and Bradley Marero and Zachary E. Martinot and Andrei Mesinger and Mathakane Molewa and Miguel F. Morales and Tshegofalang Mosiane and Steven G. Murray and Abraham R. Neben and Bojan Nikolic and Chuneeta Devi Nunhokee and Hans Nuwegeld and Aaron R. Parsons and Robert Pascua and Nipanjana Patra and Samantha Pieterse and Yuxiang Qin and Eleanor Rath and Nima Razavi-Ghods and Daniel Riley and James Robnett and Kathryn Rosie and Mario G. Santos and Peter Sims and Saurabh Singh and Dara Storer and Hilton Swarts and Jianrong Tan and Nithyanandan Thyagarajan and Pieter van Wyngaarden and Peter K. G. Williams and Haoxuan Zheng and Zhilei Xu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.04304},
year = {2024}
}