The Murchison widefield array: the square kilometre array precursor at low radio frequencies

SJ Tingay, R Goeke, JD Bowman, D Emrich… - Publications of the …, 2013 - cambridge.org
The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is one of three Square Kilometre Array Precursor
telescopes and is located at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in the Murchison …

The 154 MHz radio sky observed by the Murchison Widefield Array: noise, confusion, and first source count analyses

TMO Franzen, CA Jackson, AR Offringa… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We analyse a 154 MHz image made from a 12 h observation with the Murchison Widefield
Array (MWA) to determine the noise contribution and behaviour of the source counts down to …

cuFFS: A GPU-accelerated code for Fast Faraday rotation measure Synthesis

SS Sridhar, G Heald, JM van der Hulst - Astronomy and computing, 2018 - Elsevier
Rotation measure (RM) synthesis is a widely used polarization processing algorithm for
reconstructing polarized structures along the line of sight. Performing RM synthesis on large …

The Murchison widefield array

DA Mitchell, LJ Greenhill, SM Ord, G Bernardi… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2010 - arxiv.org
It is shown that the excellent Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory site allows the
Murchison Widefield Array to employ a simple RFI blanking scheme and still calibrate …

GPU based software correlators-perspectives for VLBI2010

T Hobiger, M Kimura, K Takefuji, T Oyama… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - ntrs.nasa.gov
Caused by historical separation and driven by the requirements of the PC gaming industry,
Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have evolved to massive parallel processing systems …

Adaptive Real-Time Imaging Synthesis Telescopes

M Wright - The International Journal of High Performance …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
The digital revolution is transforming astronomy from a data-starved to a data-submerged
science. Instruments such as the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), the Large …

The MWA GLEAM 4Jy Sample; a new large, bright radio source sample at 151 MHz

CA Jackson, TMO Franzen, N Seymour… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2016 - arxiv.org
This paper outlines how the new GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky MWA Survey (GLEAM,
Wayth et al. 2015), observed by the Murchison Widefield Array covering the frequency range …

Review of new instruments in low frequency radio interferometry and their calibration: LOFAR and MWA

N LeBel-Buchanan - 2014 - escholarship.mcgill.ca
Low frequency radio astronomy is experiencing a renaissance due to advances in
computing power and efficiency. New instruments are being designed and built to take …