Initial LOFAR observations of epoch of reionization windows

2014/07/08 by Vibor Jelić, V. Jelic, A. G. de Bruyn +135 · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Brightness #Brightness temperature #Faraday cage #Galaxy #LOFAR #Magnetic field #Physics #Polarization (electrochemistry) #Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology #Radio telescope #Redshift #Reionization #Scientific Research and Discoveries #Sky #Spectral index #Spectral line #astro-ph.GA #astro-ph.IM

paper · pdf · doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201423998

published as A&A 568, A101 (2014) · 12 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

arxiv created 2014/07/08 · openalex publication_date 2014/07/09 · arxiv updated 2014/09/05 · openalex created_date 2022/10/04 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06

Abstract

Aims. This study aims to characterise the polarized foreground emission in the ELAIS-N1 field and to address its possible implications for extracting of the cosmological 21 cm signal from the LOw-Frequency ARray – Epoch of Reionization (LOFAR-EoR) data.

Citations

• Realistic simulations of the Galactic polarized foreground: consequences for 21-cm reionization detection experiments
• The VLA Low-Frequency Sky Survey
• Multi-frequency polarimetry of the Galactic radio background around 350 MHz

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