Dr
George Heald
(ASTRON)
25/03/2010, 16:00
Science from the Pathfinders and the Route to the SKA
LOFAR is growing rapidly, with more than 21 stations operating in the field, including 3 German stations, and the correlator routinely providing high quality interferometric data from those stations. The commissioning of the telescope is underway. During the past several months, the Imaging Pipeline has been undergoing exhaustive testing and development. I will describe our most recent...
Dr
Judd Bowman
(Caltech)
25/03/2010, 16:15
Science from the Pathfinders and the Route to the SKA
For the first time, observations targeting the highly redshifted 21 cm line have yielded a meaningful probe of neutral hydrogen in the intergalactic medium during the epoch of reionization. The Experiment to Detect the Global Epoch of Reionization Signature (EDGES) has measured the all-sky radio spectrum between 100 and 200 MHz with 10 mK sensitivity at the Murchison Radio-astronomy...
Dr
alberto sesana
(Albert Einstein Institute, Golm)
25/03/2010, 16:30
Science from the Pathfinders and the Route to the SKA
In the next decade the detection of gravitational
waves (GW) will be a reality, opening a
completely new window on the Universe.
Massive black holes (MBH) binaries (MBHBs)
are expected to be among the primary
actors on this upcoming stage. Utilizing detailed MBHB population
models (based on our current best understanding of galaxy formation
and...
Prof.
Ger de Bruyn
(ASTRON)
25/03/2010, 16:45
Science from the Pathfinders and the Route to the SKA
We will present recent WSRT 21cm continuum observations of both discrete and diffuse sources of polarized emission seen in and towards the Perseus cluster of galaxies. The calibration of the data was done using Newstar and used both peeling, internal polarization leakage calibration and closure error correction. All this had to be done with sub-MHz frequency resolution to combat frequency...
