Lunar occultation of the diffuse radio sky: LOFAR measurements between 35 and 80 MHz

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 450, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 2291-2305

  Vedantham, H K ^a   Koopmans, L V E ^a   de Bruyn, A G ^a,b   Wijnholds, S J ^b   Brentjens, M ^b   Abdalla, F B ^c   Asad, K M B ^a   Bernardi, G ^d,e,f   Bus, S ^a   Chapman, E ^c   Ciardi, B ^g   Daiboo, S ^a   Fernandez, E R ^a   Ghosh, A ^a   Harker, G ^c   Jelic, V ^a   Jensen, H ^h   Kazemi, S ^a   Lambropoulos, P ^a   Martinez Rubi, O ^a   Mellema, G ^h   Mevius, M ^a   Offringa, A R ⁱ   Pandey, V N ^a   Patil, A H ^a   Thomas, R M ^a   Veligatla, V ^a   Yatawatta, S ^b   Zaroubi, S ^a   Anderson, J ^j,k   Asgekar, A ^b,l   Bell, M E ^m   Bentum, M J ^b,n   Best, P ^o   Bonafede, A ^p   Breitling, F ^k   Broderick, J ^q   Bruggen M ^p   Butcher, H R ⁱ   Corstanje, A ^r   De Gasperin, F ^p   De Geus, E ^b,s   Deller, A ^b   Duscha, S ^b   Eisloffel J ^t   Engels, D ^p   Falcke, H ^b,r   Fallows, R A ^b   Fender, R ^u   Ferrari, C ^v   Frieswijk, W ^b   Garrett, M A ^b,w   Griessmeier J ^x,y   Gunst, A W ^b   Hassall, T E ^q   Heald, G ^b   Hoeft, M ^t   Horandel J ^r   Iacobelli, M ^w   Juette, E ^z   Kondratiev, V I ^b,aa   Kuniyoshi, M ^ab   Kuper, G ^b   Mann, G ^k   Markoff, S ^ac   McFadden, R ^b   McKay Bukowski, D ^ad,ae   McKean, J P ^a,b   Mulcahy, D D ^ab   Munk, H ^b   Nelles, A ^r   Norden, M J ^b   Orru, E ^b   Pandey Pommier, M ^af   Pizzo, R ^b   Polatidis, A G ^b   Reich, W ^ab   Renting, A ^b   Rottgering H ^w   Schwarz, D ^ag   Shulevski, A ^a   Smirnov, O ^d,e   Stappers, B W ^ah   Steinmetz, M ^k   Swinbank, J ^ac   Tagger, M ^x   Tang, Y ^b   Tasse, C ^ai   Ter Veen, S ^r   Thoudam, S ^r   Toribio, C ^b   Vocks, C ^k   Wise, M W ^b,ac   Wucknitz, O ^ab   Zarka, P ^ai   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ASTRON   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d SKA SOUTH AFRICA   (South Africa)

^e RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^f HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^g MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTROPHYSIK   (Germany)

^h STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

ⁱ AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^j GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^k ASTROPHYSIKALISCHES INSTITUT POTSDAM   (Germany)

^l Shell Projects and Technology   (India)

^m CSIRO   (Australia)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^o UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^p UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^q UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^r RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^s SMARTERVISION BV   (Netherlands)

^t THÜRINGER LANDESSTERNWARTE TAUTENBURG   (Germany)

^u UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^v UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^w LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^x LPCE CNRS   (France)

^y UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

^z RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^aa LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^ab MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR RADIOASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^ac UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^ad UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^ae RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^af OBSERVATOIRE DE LYON   (France)

^ag BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^ah UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^ai OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

more..

Author keywords

Dark ages, reionization, first stars; Methods: observational; Moon; Techniques: interferometric

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; MOON;

COSMICS; DARK AGE, REIONIZATION, FIRST STAR; LARGE-SCALES; LUNAR OCCULTATION; METHODS:OBSERVATIONAL; NEGATIVE FLUXES; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; RADIO OBSERVATION; REIONIZATION; TECHNIQUE: INTERFEROMETRIC;

RADIO INTERFERENCE;

EID: 84930830477     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv746     Document Type: Article

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