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使用MWA在300 MHz下成像

Imaging at 300 MHz With the MWA

J. H. Cook, N. Seymour, M. Sokolowski

摘要:

在相对高的频率下,高灵敏度的光栅旁瓣出现在低频孔径阵列(LFAA)(诸如Murchison宽场阵列(MWA))的主波束图案中。当观察波长变得与LFAA瓦片的偶极子分离相当时,这发生在MWA的偶极子分离发生在大约300 MHz处。这些光栅旁瓣的存在使得300 MHz MWA观测的校准和图像处理变得困难。这项工作提出了一种新的校准和成像策略,采用现有的技术来处理两个例子300 MHz MWA的意见。观测结果最初使用新的300 MHz天空模型进行校准,该模型是根据低频和高频全天空调查进行内插的。使用这个300 MHz的模型与准确的MWA瓦主波束模型,我们执行天空模型校准的两个例子的观察。在初始校准之后,通过使用WSCLEAN对每个观测进行全天空成像来执行自校准循环。使用输出的全天空图像,我们掩盖了图像的主瓣。使用此掩蔽图像,我们通过使用WSCLEAN估计掩蔽图像的亮度来执行天空减法。然后,我们用WSCLEAN对观测的主瓣进行成像。这导致两个示例观察主瓣的高动态范围图像。这些图像的分辨率为2.4弧分,最大灵敏度为31 mJy/束。在这项工作中展示的校准和成像策略,打开了在300 MHz下使用MWA进行科学研究的大门,这是以前无法进入的领域。通过这篇论文,我们发布了下面描述的代码和交叉匹配目录以及代码,以产生70-1400 MHz范围内的天空模型。

英文摘要:

At relatively high frequencies, highly sensitive grating sidelobes occur in the primary beam patterns of low frequency aperture arrays (LFAA) such as the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). This occurs when the observing wavelength becomes comparable to the dipole separation for LFAA tiles, which for the MWA occurs at approximately 300 MHz. The presence of these grating sidelobes has made calibration and image processing for 300 MHz MWA observations difficult. This work presents a new calibration and imaging strategy which employs existing techniques to process two example 300 MHz MWA observations. Observations are initially calibrated using a new 300 MHz sky-model which has been interpolated from low frequency and high frequency all-sky surveys. Using this 300 MHz model in conjunction with the accurate MWA tile primary beam model, we perform sky-model calibration for the two example observations. After initial calibration a self-calibration loop is performed by all-sky imaging each observation with WSCLEAN. Using the output all-sky image we mask the main lobe of the image. Using this masked image we perform a sky-subtraction by estimating the masked image visibilities using WSCLEAN. We then image the main lobe of the observations with WSCLEAN. This results in high dynamic range images of the two example observation main lobes. These images have a resolution of 2.4 arcminutes, with a maximum sensitivity of 31 mJy/beam. The calibration and imaging strategy demonstrated in this work, opens the door to performing science at 300 MHz with the MWA, which was previously an inaccessible domain. With this paper we release the code described below and the cross-matched catalogue along with the code to produce a sky-model in the range 70-1400 MHz.

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