Foreground simulations for the LOFAR-epoch of reionization experiment

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 389, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1319-1335

  Jelic V ^a   Zaroubi, S ^a   Labropoulos, P ^a   Thomas, R M ^a   Bernardi, G ^a   Brentjens, M A ^b   De Bruyn, A G ^a,b   Ciardi, B ^c   Harker, G ^a   Koopmans, L V E ^a   Pandey, V N ^a   Schaye, J ^d   Yatawatta, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ASTRON   (Netherlands)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTROPHYSIK   (Germany)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cosmology: observation; Cosmology: theory; Diffuse radiation; Instrumentation: interferometers; Radio continuum: general; Radio lines: general

Indexed keywords

OIL WELL FLOODING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

COSMOLOGY OBSERVATIONS; COSMOLOGY: THEORY; DATA COMPONENTS; DIFFUSE RADIATION; HIGH-REDSHIFT; INSTRUMENTATION: INTERFEROMETERS; OBSERVED DATA; RADIO CONTINUUM: GENERAL; RADIO LINES: GENERAL; REIONIZATION;

COSMOLOGY;

EID: 51349144805     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13634.x     Document Type: Article

References (82)

1. Ali S. S., Bharadwaj S., Chengalur J. N., 2008, MNRAS, 385, 2166
2. Barkana R., Loeb A., 2001, Phys. Rev., 349, 125
3. Becker R. H. et al., 2001, AJ, 122, 2850
4. Brentjens M. A., de Bruyn A. G., 2005, A&A, 441, 1217
5. Bromm V., Larson R. B., 2004, ARA&A, 42, 79
6. Bryan G. L., Norman M. L., 1998, ApJ, 495, 80
7. Caswell J. L., Lerche I., 1979, MNRAS, 187, 201
8. Ciardi B., Madau P., 2003, ApJ, 596, 1
9. Ciardi B., Ferrara A., White S. D. M., 2003a, MNRAS, 344, L7
10. Ciardi B., Stoehr F., White S. D. M., 2003b, MNRAS, 343, 1101
11. Colberg J. M. et al., 2000, MNRAS, 319, 209
12. Cooray A., Furlanetto S. R., 2004, ApJ, 606, L5
13. Cortiglioni S., Spoelstra T. A. T., 1995, A&A, 302, 1
14. de Bruyn G., Miley G., Rengelink R. et al., 1998, http://www.strw. LeidenUniv.nl/wenss
15. de Bruyn G., Zaroubi S., Koopmans L., 2007, LOFAR-EoR Project Plan (available at http://www.astro.rug.nl/∼LofarEoR)
16. de Oliveira-Costa A., Kogut A., Devlin M. J., Netterfield C. B., Page L. A., Wollack E. J., 1997, ApJ, 482, L17
17. Di Matteo T., Perna R., Abel T., Rees M. J., 2002, ApJ, 564, 576
18. Di Matteo T., Ciardi B., Miniati F., 2004, MNRAS, 355, 1053
19. Duncan A. R., Stewart R. T., Haynes R. F., Jones K. L., 1995, MNRAS, 277, 36
20. Enßlin T. A., Röttgering H., 2002, A&A, 396, 83
21. Evrard A. E. et al., 2002, ApJ, 573, 7
22. Fan X. et al., 2001, AJ, 122, 2833
23. Fan X. et al., 2006, AJ, 132, 117
24. Fanaroff B. L., Riley J. M., 1974, MNRAS, 167, 31 p
25. Feretti L., 2002, in Pramesh Rao A., Swarup G., Gopal-Krishna, eds. Proc. IAU Symp. 199, The Universe at Low Radio Frequencies. Pune, India, p. 133
26. Field G. B., 1959, ApJ, 129, 536
27. Giardino G., Banday A. J., Górski K. M., Bennett K., Jonas J. L., Tauber J., 2002, A&A, 387, 82
28. Gleser L., Nusser A., Benson A. J., 2007, preprint (arXiv:0712.0497)
29. Govoni F., Enßlin T. A., Feretti L., Giovannini G., 2001, A&A, 369, 441
30. Green D. A., 2006, A Catalogue of Galactic Supernova Remnants (2006 April version Astrophysics Group, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom (available at http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/surveys/snrs/)
31. Gunn J. E., Peterson B. A., 1965, ApJ, 142, 1633
32. Haarsma D. B., Partridge R. B., Windhorst R. A., Richards E. A., 2000, ApJ, 544, 641
33. Haslam C. G. T., Salter C. J., Stoffel H., Wilson W. E., 1982, A&AS, 47, 1
34. Haverkorn M., Katgert P., de Bruyn A. G., 2000, A&A, 356, L13
35. Haverkorn M., Katgert P., de Bruyn A. G., 2002, in Cecchini S., Cortiglioni S., Sault R., Sbarra C., eds, AIP Conf. Proc. Vol. 609, Astrophysical Polarized Backgrounds: Workshop on Astrophysical Polarized Backgrounds. Am. Inst. Phys., New York, p. 72
36. Haverkorn M., Katgert P., de Bruyn A. G., 2003, A&A, 403, 1045
37. Iliev I. T., Mellema G., Shapiro P. R., McDonald P., Pen U.-L., 2007, in Alfonso J., Ferguson H. C., Mobasher B., Norris R., eds, ASP Conf. Ser. Vol. 380, At the Edge of the Universe: Latest Results from the Deepest Astronomical Surveys. Sintra, Portugal, p. 3
38. Jackson C., 2005, Publ. Astron. Soc. Aust., 22, 36
39. Jackson C. A., Wall J. V., 1999, MNRAS, 304, 160
40. Jenkins A., Frenk C. S., White S. D. M., Colberg J. M., Cole S., Evrard A. E., Couchman H. M. P., Yoshida N., 2001, MNRAS, 321, 372
41. Kempner J. C., Blanton E. L., Clarke T. E., Enßlin T. A., Johnston-Hollitt M., Rudnick L., 2004, in Reiprich T., Kempner J., Soker N., eds, Proceedings of the Riddle of Cooling Flows in Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies. Charlottesville, VA, USA (available at http://www.astro.virginia.edu/ coolflow/)
42. Kogut A., Banday A. J., Bennett C. L., Gorski K. M., Hinshaw G., Reach W. T., 1996, ApJ, 460, 1
43. Kuhlen M., Madau P., Montgomery R., 2006, ApJ, 637, L1
44. Kumar A., Subramanian K., Padmanabhan T., 1995, JA&A, 16, 83
45. Landecker T. L., Wielebinski R., 1970, AuJPA, 16, 1
46. Loeb A., Barkana R., 2001, ARA&A, 39, 19
47. Madau P., Meiksin A., Rees M. J., 1997, ApJ, 475, 429
48. Magliocchetti M. et al., 2002, MNRAS, 333, 100
49. Mandelbrot B., 1975, CRASM, 280, 1551
50. Mandelbrot B. B., 1977, Fractals (Revised edn). W. H. Freeman & Co., San Francisco
51. McQuinn M., Zahn O., Zaldarriaga M., Hernquist L., Furlanetto S. R., 2006, ApJ, 653, 815
52. Morales M. F., Bowman J. D., Hewitt J. N., 2006, ApJ, 648, 767
53. Nusser A., 2005, MNRAS, 359, 183
54. Oh S. P., Mack K. J., 2003, MNRAS, 346, 871
55. Overzier R. A., Röttgering H. J. A., Rengelink R. B., Wilman R. J., 2003, A&A, 405, 53
56. Pacholczyk A. G., 1970, Radio Astrophysics. W. H. Freeman & Co., San Francisco
57. Page L. et al., 2007, ApJS, 170, 335
58. Peebles P. J. E., 1980, Research supported by the National Science Foundation. Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ
59. Pentericci L. et al., 2002, AJ, 123, 2151
60. Platania P., Bensadoun M., Bersanelli M., de Amici G., Kogut A., Levin S., Maino D., Smoot G. F., 1998, ApJ, 505, 473
61. Prandoni I., Gregorini L., Parma P., de Ruiter H. R., Vettolani G., Zanichelli A., Wieringa M. H., Ekers R. D., 2001, A&A, 369, 787
62. Reich P., Reich W., 1988, A&AS, 74, 7
63. Reich W., 2006, preprint (arXiv:)
64. Reiprich T. H., Böhringer H., 2002, ApJ, 567, 716
65. Reynolds R. J., 1990, in Bowyer S., Leinert C., eds, The Galactic and Extragalactic Background Radiation. Kluwer, Dordrecht, p. 157
66. Rybicki G. B., Lightman A. P., 1986, in Rybicki G. B., Lightman A. P., eds, Radiative Processes in Astrophysics. Wiley, New York
67. Sadler E. M. et al., 2002, MNRAS, 329, 227
68. Santos M. G., Cooray A., Knox L., 2005, ApJ, 625, 575
69. Scott D., Rees M. J., 1990, MNRAS, 247, 510
70. Shaver P. A., Windhorst R. A., Madau P., de Bruyn A. G., 1999, A&A, 345, 380
71. Smoot G. F., 1998, preprint (arXiv:)
72. Spergel D. N. et al., 2007, ApJS, 170, 377
73. Taylor G. B., Carilli C. L., Perley R. A., 1999, eds, ASP Conf. Ser. Vol. 180, Synthesis Imaging in Radio Astronomy II. Astron. Soc. Pac., San Francisco
74. Tegmark M., Eisenstein D. J., Hu W., de Oliveira-Costa A., 2000, ApJ, 530, 133
75. Thomas R. M., Zaroubi S., 2007, MNRAS, 384, 1080
76. Wang X., Tegmark M., Santos M. G., Knox L., 2006, ApJ, 650, 529
77. White R. L., Becker R. H., Fan X., Strauss M. A., 2003, AJ, 126, 1
78. Wieringa M. H., de Bruyn A. G., Jansen D., Brouw W. N., Katgert P., 1993, A&A, 268, 215
79. Wouthuysen S. A., 1952, AJ, 57, 31
80. Xu J.-W., Zhang X.-Z., Han J.-L., 2005, Chin. J. Astron. Astrophys., 5, 442
81. Zaldarriaga M., Furlanetto S. R., Hernquist L., 2004, ApJ, 608, 622
82. Zaroubi S., Thomas R. M., Sugiyama N., Silk J., 2007, MNRAS, 375, 1269