The Murchison Widefield Array delivers for Australian astrophysics
The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is a low frequency (80-300 MHz) radio telescope that has recently become operational in remote Western Australia, a pristine radio quiet environment that allows the MWA to detect cosmic radio waves. I briefly illustrate the MWA's the early science outputs, re...
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Australian Institute of Physics
2015
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| author | Tingay, Steven |
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| description | The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is a low frequency (80-300 MHz) radio telescope that has recently become operational in remote Western Australia, a pristine radio quiet environment that allows the MWA to detect cosmic radio waves. I briefly illustrate the MWA's the early science outputs, revealing new information about the Earth's ionosphere and the Sun, enabling unique studies of our galaxy and its constituents, undertaking surveys of hundreds of thousands of other galaxies, and peering back in time 13 billion years to watch the birth of the first stars and galaxies after the Big Bang. The MWA is the first operational precursor for the multi-billion dollar Square Kilometre Array. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-215222017-04-07T00:24:46Z The Murchison Widefield Array delivers for Australian astrophysics Tingay, Steven The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is a low frequency (80-300 MHz) radio telescope that has recently become operational in remote Western Australia, a pristine radio quiet environment that allows the MWA to detect cosmic radio waves. I briefly illustrate the MWA's the early science outputs, revealing new information about the Earth's ionosphere and the Sun, enabling unique studies of our galaxy and its constituents, undertaking surveys of hundreds of thousands of other galaxies, and peering back in time 13 billion years to watch the birth of the first stars and galaxies after the Big Bang. The MWA is the first operational precursor for the multi-billion dollar Square Kilometre Array. 2015 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/21522 Australian Institute of Physics restricted |
| spellingShingle | Tingay, Steven The Murchison Widefield Array delivers for Australian astrophysics |
| title | The Murchison Widefield Array delivers for Australian astrophysics |
| title_full | The Murchison Widefield Array delivers for Australian astrophysics |
| title_fullStr | The Murchison Widefield Array delivers for Australian astrophysics |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Murchison Widefield Array delivers for Australian astrophysics |
| title_short | The Murchison Widefield Array delivers for Australian astrophysics |
| title_sort | murchison widefield array delivers for australian astrophysics |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/21522 |