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Title: Delay spectrum with phase-tracking arrays: extracting the Hi power spectrum from the epoch of reionization
Authors: Paul, Sourabh
Sethi, S.K.
Dwarakanath, K.S.
Udaya Shankar, N.
Subrahmanyan, Ravi
Prabu, T.
Srivani, K.S.
+40 Co-authors
Keywords: Cosmology: observations
Reionization,
Interferometric technique
Dark age
Issue Date: 20-Dec-2016
Publisher: IOP Sciences for The American Astronomical Society
Citation: Astrophysical Journal, 2016, Vol. 833, p 213
Abstract: The detection of redshifted 21 cm emission from the epoch of reionization (EoR) is a challenging task owing to strong foregrounds that dominate the signal. In this paper, we propose a general method, based on the delay spectrum approach, to extract H i power spectra that are applicable to tracking observations using an imaging radio interferometer ("Delay Spectrum with Imaging Arrays"). Our method is based on modeling the H i signal taking into account the impact of wide field effects such as the w-term, which are then used as appropriate weights in cross-correlating the measured visibilities. Our method is applicable to any radio interferometer that tracks a phase center and could be utilized for arrays such as the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope (GMRT), Donald C. Backer Precision Array for Probing the Epoch of Reionization (PAPER), and HERA. In the literature the delay spectrum approach has been implemented for near-redundant baselines using drift scan observations. In this paper we explore the scheme for non-redundant tracking arrays. This is the first application of delay spectrum methodology to such data to extract the H i signal. We analyze 3 hr of MWA tracking data on the EoR1 field. We present both two-dimensional (${k}_{\parallel },{k}_{\perp }$) and one-dimensional (k) power spectra from the analysis. Our results are in agreement with the findings of other pipelines developed to analyze the MWA EoR data.
Description: Restricted Access. An open-access version is available at arXiv.org (one of the alternative locations)
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2289/6650
ISSN: 0004-637X
1538-4357-(Online)
Alternative Location: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016ApJ...833..p 213
http://arxiv.org/abs/1610.07003
http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/833/2/213
Copyright: 2016, The American Astronomical Society.
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