Journal article

Results from the MWA EoR Experiment

RL Webster

Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union | CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS | Published : 2017

Abstract

The MWA EoR is one of a small handful of experiments designed to detect the statistical signal from the Epoch of Reionisation. Each of these experiments has reached a level of maturity, where the challenges, in particular of foreground removal, are being more fully understood. Over the past decade, the MWA EoR Collaboration has developed expertise and an understanding of the elements of the telescope array, the end-to-end pipelines, ionospheric conditions, and and the foreground emissions. Sufficient data has been collected to detect the theoretically predicted EoR signal. Limits have been published regularly, however we still several orders of magnitude from a possible detection. This paper..

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University of Melbourne Researchers

Grants

Awarded by Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO)


Funding Acknowledgements

Parts of this research were conducted by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO), through project number CE110001020.