Science with the Murchison Widefield Array
Significant new opportunities for astrophysics and cosmology have been identified at low radio frequencies. The Murchison Widefield Array is the first telescope in the southern hemisphere designed specifically to explore the low-frequency astronomical sky between 80 and 300 MHz with arcminute angula...
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| author | Arcus, Wayne Emrich, David Herne, David Lynch, Mervyn Ord, Stephen Tingay, Steven Wayth, Randall Waterson, Mark Bowman, Judd Cairns, Iver Kaplan, David Murphy, Tara Oberoi, Divya Staveley-Smith, Lister Barnes, David Bernardi, Gianni Briggs, Frank Brown, Shea Bunton, John Burgasser, Adam Cappallo, Roger Chatterjee, Shami Corey, Brian Coster, Anthea Deshpande, Avinash DeSouza, Ludi Erickson, Philip Goeke, Robert Gaensler, B.M. Greenhill, Lincoln Harvey-Smith, Lisa Hazelton, Bryna Hewitt, Jacqueline Johnston-Hollitt, Melanie Kasper, Justin Kincaid, Barton Koenig, Ronald Kratzenberg, Eric Lonsdale, Colin Matthews, Lynn McWhirter, S. Russell Mitchell, Daniel Morales, Miguel Morgan, Edward Pathikulangara, Joseph Prabu, Thiagaraj Remillard, Ronald Robishaw, Timothy Rogers, Alan Roshi, Anish Salah, Joseph Sault, Robert Udaya Shankar, N. Srivani, K.S. Stevens, Jamie Subrahmanyan, Ravi Webster, Rachel Whitney, Alan Williams, Andrew Williams, Christopher Wyithe, J. Stuart |
| author_facet | Arcus, Wayne Emrich, David Herne, David Lynch, Mervyn Ord, Stephen Tingay, Steven Wayth, Randall Waterson, Mark Bowman, Judd Cairns, Iver Kaplan, David Murphy, Tara Oberoi, Divya Staveley-Smith, Lister Barnes, David Bernardi, Gianni Briggs, Frank Brown, Shea Bunton, John Burgasser, Adam Cappallo, Roger Chatterjee, Shami Corey, Brian Coster, Anthea Deshpande, Avinash DeSouza, Ludi Erickson, Philip Goeke, Robert Gaensler, B.M. Greenhill, Lincoln Harvey-Smith, Lisa Hazelton, Bryna Hewitt, Jacqueline Johnston-Hollitt, Melanie Kasper, Justin Kincaid, Barton Koenig, Ronald Kratzenberg, Eric Lonsdale, Colin Matthews, Lynn McWhirter, S. Russell Mitchell, Daniel Morales, Miguel Morgan, Edward Pathikulangara, Joseph Prabu, Thiagaraj Remillard, Ronald Robishaw, Timothy Rogers, Alan Roshi, Anish Salah, Joseph Sault, Robert Udaya Shankar, N. Srivani, K.S. Stevens, Jamie Subrahmanyan, Ravi Webster, Rachel Whitney, Alan Williams, Andrew Williams, Christopher Wyithe, J. Stuart |
| author_sort | Arcus, Wayne |
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| description | Significant new opportunities for astrophysics and cosmology have been identified at low radio frequencies. The Murchison Widefield Array is the first telescope in the southern hemisphere designed specifically to explore the low-frequency astronomical sky between 80 and 300 MHz with arcminute angular resolution and high survey efficiency. The telescope will enable new advances along four key science themes, including searching for redshifted 21-cm emission from the EoR in the early Universe; Galactic and extragalactic all-sky southern hemisphere surveys; time-domain astrophysics; and solar, heliospheric, and ionospheric science and space weather. The Murchison Widefield Array is located in Western Australia at the site of the planned Square Kilometre Array (SKA) low-band telescope and is the only low-frequency SKA precursor facility. In this paper, we review the performance properties of the Murchison Widefield Array and describe its primary scientific objectives. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-349622017-09-13T16:07:33Z Science with the Murchison Widefield Array Arcus, Wayne Emrich, David Herne, David Lynch, Mervyn Ord, Stephen Tingay, Steven Wayth, Randall Waterson, Mark Bowman, Judd Cairns, Iver Kaplan, David Murphy, Tara Oberoi, Divya Staveley-Smith, Lister Barnes, David Bernardi, Gianni Briggs, Frank Brown, Shea Bunton, John Burgasser, Adam Cappallo, Roger Chatterjee, Shami Corey, Brian Coster, Anthea Deshpande, Avinash DeSouza, Ludi Erickson, Philip Goeke, Robert Gaensler, B.M. Greenhill, Lincoln Harvey-Smith, Lisa Hazelton, Bryna Hewitt, Jacqueline Johnston-Hollitt, Melanie Kasper, Justin Kincaid, Barton Koenig, Ronald Kratzenberg, Eric Lonsdale, Colin Matthews, Lynn McWhirter, S. Russell Mitchell, Daniel Morales, Miguel Morgan, Edward Pathikulangara, Joseph Prabu, Thiagaraj Remillard, Ronald Robishaw, Timothy Rogers, Alan Roshi, Anish Salah, Joseph Sault, Robert Udaya Shankar, N. Srivani, K.S. Stevens, Jamie Subrahmanyan, Ravi Webster, Rachel Whitney, Alan Williams, Andrew Williams, Christopher Wyithe, J. Stuart reionisation first stars – instrumentation: interferometers – radio continuum: general – radio lines: general – Sun: general dark ages Significant new opportunities for astrophysics and cosmology have been identified at low radio frequencies. The Murchison Widefield Array is the first telescope in the southern hemisphere designed specifically to explore the low-frequency astronomical sky between 80 and 300 MHz with arcminute angular resolution and high survey efficiency. The telescope will enable new advances along four key science themes, including searching for redshifted 21-cm emission from the EoR in the early Universe; Galactic and extragalactic all-sky southern hemisphere surveys; time-domain astrophysics; and solar, heliospheric, and ionospheric science and space weather. The Murchison Widefield Array is located in Western Australia at the site of the planned Square Kilometre Array (SKA) low-band telescope and is the only low-frequency SKA precursor facility. In this paper, we review the performance properties of the Murchison Widefield Array and describe its primary scientific objectives. 2013 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/34962 10.1017/pas.2013.009 CSIRO fulltext |
| spellingShingle | reionisation first stars – instrumentation: interferometers – radio continuum: general – radio lines: general – Sun: general dark ages Arcus, Wayne Emrich, David Herne, David Lynch, Mervyn Ord, Stephen Tingay, Steven Wayth, Randall Waterson, Mark Bowman, Judd Cairns, Iver Kaplan, David Murphy, Tara Oberoi, Divya Staveley-Smith, Lister Barnes, David Bernardi, Gianni Briggs, Frank Brown, Shea Bunton, John Burgasser, Adam Cappallo, Roger Chatterjee, Shami Corey, Brian Coster, Anthea Deshpande, Avinash DeSouza, Ludi Erickson, Philip Goeke, Robert Gaensler, B.M. Greenhill, Lincoln Harvey-Smith, Lisa Hazelton, Bryna Hewitt, Jacqueline Johnston-Hollitt, Melanie Kasper, Justin Kincaid, Barton Koenig, Ronald Kratzenberg, Eric Lonsdale, Colin Matthews, Lynn McWhirter, S. Russell Mitchell, Daniel Morales, Miguel Morgan, Edward Pathikulangara, Joseph Prabu, Thiagaraj Remillard, Ronald Robishaw, Timothy Rogers, Alan Roshi, Anish Salah, Joseph Sault, Robert Udaya Shankar, N. Srivani, K.S. Stevens, Jamie Subrahmanyan, Ravi Webster, Rachel Whitney, Alan Williams, Andrew Williams, Christopher Wyithe, J. Stuart Science with the Murchison Widefield Array |
| title | Science with the Murchison Widefield Array |
| title_full | Science with the Murchison Widefield Array |
| title_fullStr | Science with the Murchison Widefield Array |
| title_full_unstemmed | Science with the Murchison Widefield Array |
| title_short | Science with the Murchison Widefield Array |
| title_sort | science with the murchison widefield array |
| topic | reionisation first stars – instrumentation: interferometers – radio continuum: general – radio lines: general – Sun: general dark ages |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/34962 |