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默奇森宽场天线阵:低射频的平方公里天线阵先驱

The Murchison Widefield Array: the Square Kilometre Array Precursor at low radio frequencies

S. J. Tingay, R. Goeke, J. D. Bowman, D. Emrich, S. M. Ord, D. A. Mitchell, M. F. Morales, T. Booler, B. Crosse, D. Pallot, A. Wicenec, W. Arcus, D. Barnes, G. … 展开作者

S. J. Tingay, R. Goeke, J. D. Bowman, D. Emrich, S. M. Ord, D. A. Mitchell, M. F. Morales, T. Booler, B. Crosse, D. Pallot, A. Wicenec, W. Arcus, D. Barnes, G. Bernardi, F. Briggs, S. Burns, J. D. Bunton, R. J. Cappallo, T. Colegate, B. E. Corey, A. Deshpande, L. deSouza, B. M. Gaensler, L. J. Greenhill, J. Hall, B. J. Hazelton, D. Herne, J. N. Hewitt, M. Johnston-Hollitt, D. L. Kaplan, J. C. Kasper, B. B. Kincaid, R. Koenig, E. Kratzenberg, C. J. Lonsdale, M. J. Lynch, B. McKinley, S. R. McWhirter, E. Morgan, D. Oberoi, J. Pathikulangara, T. Prabu, R. A. Remillard, A. E. E. Rogers, A. Roshi, J. E. Salah, R. J. Sault, N. Udaya-Shankar, F. Schlagenhaufer, K. S. Srivani, J. Stevens, R. Subrahmanyan, S. Tremblay, R. B. Wayth, M. Waterson, R. L. Webster, A. R. Whitney, A. Williams, C. L. Williams, J. S. B. Wyithe

摘要:

Murchison Widefield Array(MWA)是三个平方公里阵列先驱望远镜之一,位于西澳大利亚中西部Murchison Shire的Murchison射电天文台,该位置因其极低的射频干扰而被选中。MWA在80-300 MHz的低射频下工作,两种线性极化的处理带宽为30.72 MHz,由分布在直径约3 km区域的128个孔径阵列(称为瓦片)组成。新颖的混合硬件/软件相关性和实时成像和校准系统包括MWA信号处理后端。在本文中,作为建成MWA在系统和子系统的水平进行了描述,阵列的预期性能,并总结了仪器的科学目标。

英文摘要:

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 Shire of the mid-west of Western Australia, a location chosen for its extremely low levels of radio frequency interference. The MWA operates at low radio frequencies, 80-300 MHz, with a processed bandwidth of 30.72 MHz for both linear polarisations, and consists of 128 aperture arrays (known as tiles) distributed over a ~3 km diameter area. Novel hybrid hardware/software correlation and a real-time imaging and calibration systems comprise the MWA signal processing backend. In this paper the as-built MWA is described both at a system and sub-system level, the expected performance of the array is presented, and the science goals of the instrument are summarised.

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