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dc.contributor.authorWilliams, Christopher L.-
dc.contributor.authorHewitt, Jacqueline N-
dc.contributor.authorLevine, Alan M.-
dc.contributor.authorOliveira-Costa, Angelica de-
dc.contributor.authorBowman, Judd D.-
dc.contributor.authorBriggs, Frank H.-
dc.contributor.authorGaensler, B.M.-
dc.contributor.authorHernquist, Lars L.-
dc.contributor.authorMitchell, D.A.-
dc.contributor.authorMorales, M.F.-
dc.contributor.authorSethi, S.K.-
dc.contributor.authorSubrahmanyan, Ravi-
dc.contributor.authorRoshi, Anish D.-
dc.contributor.author+44 Co-authors-
dc.date.accessioned2013-03-08T11:05:52Z-
dc.date.available2013-03-08T11:05:52Z-
dc.date.issued2012-08-10-
dc.identifier.citationThe Astrophysical journal, 2013, Vol.755, p47en
dc.identifier.issn0004-637X-
dc.identifier.issn1538-4357 (Online)-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2289/5414-
dc.descriptionRestricted Access. An open-access version is available at arXiv.org (one of the alternative locations)en
dc.description.abstractThe Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is a new low-frequency, wide-field-of-view radio interferometer under development at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Western Australia. We have used a 32 element MWA prototype interferometer (MWA-32T) to observe two 50° diameter fields in the southern sky, covering a total of ~2700 deg2, in order to evaluate the performance of the MWA-32T, to develop techniques for epoch of reionization experiments, and to make measurements of astronomical foregrounds. We developed a calibration and imaging pipeline for the MWA-32T, and used it to produce ~15' angular resolution maps of the two fields in the 110-200 MHz band. We perform a blind source extraction using these confusion-limited images, and detect 655 sources at high significance with an additional 871 lower significance source candidates. We compare these sources with existing low-frequency radio surveys in order to assess the MWA-32T system performance, wide-field analysis algorithms, and catalog quality. Our source catalog is found to agree well with existing low-frequency surveys in these regions of the sky and with statistical distributions of point sources derived from Northern Hemisphere surveys; it represents one of the deepest surveys to date of this sky field in the 110-200 MHz band.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherIOP Publishing Ltd.en
dc.relation.urihttp://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012ApJ...755...47Wen
dc.relation.urihttp://arxiv.org/abs/1203.5790en
dc.relation.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/755/1/47en
dc.rights2012 IOP Publishing Ltd.en
dc.subjectdark agesen
dc.subjectreionizationen
dc.subjectfirst starsen
dc.subjectinstrumentationen
dc.subjectinterferometersen
dc.subjectdata analysisen
dc.subjectsurveysen
dc.titleLow frequency imagingof fields at high galactic latitude with the murchison widefield array 32 element prototypeen
dc.typeArticleen
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