2016
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/833/1/102
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First Season Mwa Eor Power Spectrum Results at Redshift 7

Abstract: The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) has collected hundreds of hours of Epoch of Reionization (EoR) data and now faces the challenge of overcoming foreground and systematic contamination to reduce the data to a cosmological measurement. We introduce several novel analysis techniques, such as cable reflection calibration, hyper-resolution gridding kernels, diffuse foreground model subtraction, and quality control methods. Each change to the analysis pipeline is tested against a two-dimensional power spectrum fig… Show more

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“…Although a direct detection of the 21-cm signal continues to be elusive, the PAPER radio interferometer derived lower limits in the range 5-10 K on the IGM temperature at z = 8.4 based on upper limits to the power spectrum of 21-cm spatial fluctuations at that epoch; the derived limit depends on the assumed ionization fraction (Pober et al 2015). Recently, additional upper limits on the 21-cm power spectrum have been reported by MWA (Beardsley et al 2016) and LOFAR (Patil et al 2017). …”
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confidence: 99%
“…Although a direct detection of the 21-cm signal continues to be elusive, the PAPER radio interferometer derived lower limits in the range 5-10 K on the IGM temperature at z = 8.4 based on upper limits to the power spectrum of 21-cm spatial fluctuations at that epoch; the derived limit depends on the assumed ionization fraction (Pober et al 2015). Recently, additional upper limits on the 21-cm power spectrum have been reported by MWA (Beardsley et al 2016) and LOFAR (Patil et al 2017). …”
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confidence: 99%
“…Source subtraction (Ali, Bharadwaj & Chengalur 2008;Ghosh et al 2012;Beardsley et al 2016;Gehlot et al 2018;Kerrigan et al 2018) offers a technique for foreground mitigation; this, however, is limited by our ability to accurately calibrate the visibility data and model the sources. The TGSS ADR1 uses a novel method to incorporate Directiondependent (DD) calibration to all the data sets.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These observational efforts have resulted in upper limits of the 21cm power spectrum and on the ionized state of the IGM at z ∼ 8 (e.g. Parsons et al 2014;Ali et al 2015;Pober et al 2015 ;Greig et al 2016;Beardsley et al 2016). Furthermore, future instruments such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) (Mellema et al 2013) and Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA) (DeBoer et al 2016) are designed to detect the 21cm signal power spectrum with higher signal to noise ratio and at higher redshift, during the Cosmic Dawn.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%