The EoR sensitivity of the Murchison widefield array

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Title:	The EoR sensitivity of the Murchison widefield array
Authors:	Beardsley, A. P. Hazelton, B.J. Morales, M.F. Deshpande, A.A. Prabu, T. Roshi, Anish D. Udaya Shankar, N. Srivani, K.S. Subrahmanyan, Ravi +30 Co-authors
Keywords:	instrumentation: interferometers cosmology: miscellaneous
Issue Date:	1-Feb-2013
Publisher:	Oxford University Press for the Royal Astronomical Society
Citation:	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters , 2013, Vol. 429, L5-L9
Abstract:	Using the final 128 antenna locations of the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), we calculate its sensitivity to the epoch of reionization (EoR) power spectrum of redshifted 21 cm emission for a fiducial model and provide the tools to calculate the sensitivity for any model. Our calculation takes into account synthesis rotation, chromatic and asymmetrical baseline effects, and excludes modes that will be contaminated by foreground subtraction. For the fiducial model, the MWA will be capable of a 14σ detection of the EoR signal with one full season of observation on two fields (900 and 700 h)
Description:	Restricted Access. An open-access version is available at arXiv.org (one of the alternative locations)
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/2289/5658
ISSN:	1745-3933 (online)
Alternative Location:	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013MNRAS.429L...5B http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.3111 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/sls013
Copyright:	2013 The authors & the Royal Astronomical Society.
Appears in Collections:	Research Papers (A&A)

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