Initial deep LOFAR observations of epoch of reionization windows: I. the north celestial pole

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 550, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Yatawatta, S ^a,b   De Bruyn, A G ^a,b   Brentjens, M A ^b   Labropoulos, P ^b   Pandey, V N ^b   Kazemi, S ^a   Zaroubi, S ^a   Koopmans, L V E ^a   Offringa, A R ^a,af   Jelic V ^a   Martinez Rubi, O ^a   Veligatla, V ^a   Wijnholds, S J ^b   Brouw, W N ^b   Bernardi, G ^a,k   Ciardi, B ^c   Daiboo, S ^a   Harker, G ^d   Mellema, G ^e   Schaye, J ^f   Thomas, R ^a   Vedantham, H ^a   Chapman, E ^z   Abdalla, F B ^z   Alexov, A ^aa   Anderson, J ^c   Avruch, I M ^a,i   Batejat, F ^ab   Bell, M E ^j,o   Bell, M R ^c   Bentum, M ^b   Best, P ^l   Bonafede, A ^m   Bregman, J ^b   Breitling, F ⁿ   Van De Brink, R H ^b   Broderick, J W ^o   Bruggen M ^m,p   Conway, J ^ab   De Gasperin, F ^p   De Geus, E ^b   Duscha, S ^b   Falcke, H ^s   Fallows, R A ^b   Ferrari, C ^ac   Frieswijk, W ^b   Garrett, M A ^b,f   Griessmeier, J M ^b,t   Gunst, A W ^b   Hassall, T E ^o,u   Hessels, J W T ^b,h   Hoeft, M ^r   Iacobelli, M ^f   Juette, E ^q   Karastergiou, A ^v   Kondratiev, V I ^b,ad   Kramer, M ^c,u   Kuniyoshi, M ^c   Kuper, G ^b   Van Leeuwen, J ^b,h   Maat, P ^b   Mann, G ⁿ   McKean, J P ^b   Mevius, M ^a,b   Mol, J D ^b   Munk, H ^b   Nijboer, R ^b   Noordam, J E ^b   Norden, M J ^b   Orru, E ^b,s   Paas, H ^ae   Pandey Pommier, M ^f,w   Pizzo, R ^b   Polatidis, A G ^b   Reich, W ^c   Rottgering H J A ^f   Sluman, J ^b   Smirnov, O ^x   Stappers, B ^u   Steinmetz, M ⁿ   Tagger, M ^t   Tang, Y ^b   Tasse, C ^g   Ter Veen, S ^s   Vermeulen, R ^b   Van Weeren, R J ^b,f,k   Wise, M ^b   Wucknitz, O ^c,y   Zarka, P ^g   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ASTRON   (Netherlands)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTROPHYSIK   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^g OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^h UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

ⁱ SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^j UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^k HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^l UK ASTRONOMY TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^m JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

ⁿ ASTROPHYSIKALISCHES INSTITUT POTSDAM   (Germany)

^o UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^p UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^q RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^r Tautenburg Observatory   (Germany)

^s RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^t CNRS   (France)

^u UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^v UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^w CENTRE DE RECHERCHE ASTROPHYSIQUE DE LYON   (France)

^x RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^y UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^z UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^aa STScI   (United States)

^ab CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^ac UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^ad LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^ae UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^af AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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Author keywords

Dark ages, reionization, first stars; Instrumentation: interferometers; Methods: data analysis; Techniques: interferometric

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR SEPARATION; COMMISSIONING PHASE; DARK AGES , REIONIZATION , FIRST STARS; DISTANT SOURCE; EXCESS NOISE; FREQUENCY RANGES; INSTRUMENTATION: INTERFEROMETERS; LONG INTEGRATIONS; METHODS:DATA ANALYSIS; NOISE LEVELS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PHASE FLUCTUATION; RED-SHIFTED; REIONIZATION; SIDE LOBES; SPECTRAL FLUCTUATIONS; TECHNIQUES: INTERFEROMETRIC; THERMAL LIMITS;

DATA PROCESSING; IONOSPHERE; POLES; SOURCE SEPARATION;

PIPELINE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84873639073     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201220874     Document Type: Article

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