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Garrelt Mellema Léon V. E. Koopmans Filipe A. Abdalla Gianni Bernardi Benedetta Ciardi Soobash Daiboo A. G. de Bruyn Kanan K. Datta Heino Falcke Andrea Ferrara Ilian T. Iliev Fabio Iocco Vibor Jelić Hannes Jensen Ronniy Joseph Panos Labroupoulos Avery Meiksin Andrei Mesinger André R. Offringa V. N. Pandey Jonathan R. Pritchard Mario G. Santos Dominik J. Schwarz Benoit Semelin Harish Vedantham Sarod Yatawatta Saleem Zaroubi 《Experimental Astronomy》2013,36(1-2):235-318
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will have a low frequency component (SKA-low) which has as one of its main science goals the study of the redshifted 21 cm line from the earliest phases of star and galaxy formation in the Universe. This 21 cm signal provides a new and unique window both on the time of the formation of the first stars and accreting black holes and the subsequent period of substantial ionization of the intergalactic medium. The signal will teach us fundamental new things about the earliest phases of structure formation, cosmology and even has the potential to lead to the discovery of new physical phenomena. Here we present a white paper with an overview of the science questions that SKA-low can address, how we plan to tackle these questions and what this implies for the basic design of the telescope. 相似文献
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Geraint J. A. Harker Saleem Zaroubi Rajat M. Thomas Vibor Jeli&#; Panagiotis Labropoulos Garrelt Mellema Ilian T. Iliev Gianni Bernardi Michiel A. Brentjens A. G. de Bruyn Benedetta Ciardi Leon V. E. Koopmans V. N. Pandey reas H. Pawlik Joop Schaye Sarod Yatawatta 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2009,393(4):1449-1458
Detecting redshifted 21-cm emission from neutral hydrogen in the early Universe promises to give direct constraints on the epoch of reionization (EoR). It will, though, be very challenging to extract the cosmological signal (CS) from foregrounds and noise which are orders of magnitude larger. Fortunately, the signal has some characteristics which differentiate it from the foregrounds and noise, and we suggest that using the correct statistics may tease out signatures of reionization. We generate mock data cubes simulating the output of the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) EoR experiment. These cubes combine realistic models for Galactic and extragalactic foregrounds and the noise with three different simulations of the CS. We fit out the foregrounds, which are smooth in the frequency direction, to produce residual images in each frequency band. We denoise these images and study the skewness of the one-point distribution in the images as a function of frequency. We find that, under sufficiently optimistic assumptions, we can recover the main features of the redshift evolution of the skewness in the 21-cm signal. We argue that some of these features – such as a dip at the onset of reionization, followed by a rise towards its later stages – may be generic, and give us a promising route to a statistical detection of reionization. 相似文献
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Rajat M. Thomas Saleem Zaroubi Benedetta Ciardi reas H. Pawlik Panagiotis Labropoulos Vibor Jeli&#; Gianni Bernardi Michiel A. Brentjens A. G. de Bruyn Geraint J. A. Harker Leon V. E. Koopmans Garrelt Mellema V. N. Pandey Joop Schaye Sarod Yatawatta 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2009,393(1):32-48
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Geraint Harker Saleem Zaroubi Gianni Bernardi Michiel A. Brentjens A. G. de Bruyn Benedetta Ciardi Vibor Jeli&#; Leon V. E. Koopmans Panagiotis Labropoulos Garrelt Mellema ré Offringa V. N. Pandey Joop Schaye Rajat M. Thomas Sarod Yatawatta 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2009,397(2):1138-1152
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Sarod Yatawatta 《Experimental Astronomy》2013,35(3):469-487
The knowledge of receiver beam shapes is essential for accurate radio interferometric imaging. Traditionally, this information is obtained by holographic techniques or by numerical simulation. However, such methods are not feasible for an observation with time varying beams, such as the beams produced by a phased array radio interferometer. We propose the use of the observed data itself for the estimation of the beam shapes. We use the directional gains obtained along multiple sources across the sky for the construction of a time varying beam model. The construction of this model is an ill posed non linear optimization problem. Therefore, we propose to use Riemannian optimization, where we consider the constraints imposed as a manifold. We compare the performance of the proposed approach with traditional unconstrained optimization and give results to show the superiority of the proposed approach. 相似文献
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Sarod Yatawatta 《Experimental Astronomy》2012,34(1):89-103
Interferometric calibration always yields non unique solutions. It is therefore essential to remove these ambiguities before the solutions could be used in any further modeling of the sky, the instrument or propagation effects such as the ionosphere. We present a method for LOFAR calibration which does not yield a unitary ambiguity, especially under ionospheric distortions. We also present exact ambiguities we get in our solutions, in closed form. Casting this as an optimization problem, we also present conditions for this approach to work. The proposed method enables us to use the solutions obtained via calibration for further modeling of instrumental and propagation effects. We provide extensive simulation results on the performance of our method. Moreover, we also give cases where due to degeneracy, this method fails to perform as expected and in such cases, we suggest exploiting diversity in time, space and frequency. 相似文献
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