Journal article
First Season MWA Phase II Epoch of Reionization Power Spectrum Results at Redshift 7
W Li, JC Pober, N Barry, BJ Hazelton, MF Morales, CM Trott, A Lanman, M Wilensky, I Sullivan, AP Beardsley, T Booler, JD Bowman, R Byrne, B Crosse, D Emrich, TMO Franzen, K Hasegawa, L Horsley, M Johnston-Hollitt, DC Jacobs Show all
The Astrophysical Journal | IOP PUBLISHING LTD | Published : 2019
Abstract
The compact configuration of Phase II of the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) consists of both a redundant subarray and pseudo-random baselines, offering unique opportunities to perform sky-model and redundant interferometric calibration. The highly redundant hexagonal cores give improved power spectrum sensitivity. In this paper, we present the analysis of nearly 40 hr of data targeting one of the MWA's epoch of reionization (EoR) fields observed in 2016. We use both improved analysis techniques presented in Barry et al. and several additional techniques developed for this work, including data quality control methods and interferometric calibration approaches. We show the EoR power spectrum ..
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Funding Acknowledgements
W.L. and J.C.P. would like to acknowledge the support from NSF grant No. 1613040. W.L. would like to acknowledge the Galkin Foundation Fellowship. This scientific work makes use of the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, operated by CSIRO. We acknowledge the Wajarri Yamatji people as the traditional owners of the Observatory site. Support for the operation of the MWA is provided by the Australian Government (NCRIS), under a contract to Curtin University administered by Astronomy Australia Limited. We acknowledge the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, which is supported by the Western Australian and Australian Governments. Parts of this research were supported by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D), through project No. CE170100013. C.M.T. is supported by an ARC Future Fellowship under grant FT180100321. The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) is a Joint Venture of Curtin University and the University of Western Australia, funded by the Western Australian State government. The MWA Phase II upgrade project was supported by Australian Research Council LIEF grant LE160100031 and the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto. This research was conducted using computation resources and services at the Center for Computation and Visualization, Brown University.