Journal article
Realisation of a low frequency SKA Precursor: The Murchison Widefield Array
SJ Tingay, R Goeke, JN Hewitt, E Morgan, RA Remillard, CL Williams, D Emrich, SM Ord, T Booler, B Crosse, D Pallot, W Arcus, T Colegate, PJ Hall, D Herne, MJ Lynch, F Schlagenhaufer, S Tremblay, RB Wayth, M Waterson Show all
Proceedings of Science | Published : 2012
DOI: 10.22323/1.163.0036
Abstract
The Murchison Widefield Array is a low frequency (80-300 MHz) SKA Precursor, comprising 128 aperture array elements distributed over an area of 3 km diameter. The MWA is located at the extraordinarily radio quiet Murchison Radioastronomy Observatory in the mid-west of Western Australia, the selected home for the Phase 1 and Phase 2 SKA low frequency arrays. The MWA science goals include: 1) detection of fluctuations in the brightness temperature of the diffuse redshifted 21 cm line of neutral hydrogen from the epoch of reionisation; 2) studies of Galactic and extragalactic processes based on deep, confusion-limited surveys of the full sky visible to the array; 3) time domain astrophysics thr..
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