Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2010-08-25
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
7 pages, 3 figures, Poster presented at 'A New Golden Age for Radio Astronomy', International SKA Forum 2010, 10-14 June 2010,
Scientific paper
LOFAR is a new and innovative effort to build a radio-telescope operating at the multi-meter wavelength spectral window. One of the most exciting applications of LOFAR will be the search for redshifted 21-cm line emission from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). It is currently believed that the Dark Ages, the period after recombination when the Universe turned neutral, lasted until around the Universe was 400,000 years old. During the EoR, objects started to form in the early universe and they were energetic enough to ionize neutral hydrogen. The precision and accuracy required to achieve this scientific goal, can be essentially translated into accumulating large amounts of data. The data model describing the response of the LOFAR telescope to the intensity distribution of the sky is characterized by the non-linearity of the parameters and the large level of noise compared to the desired cosmological signal. In this poster, we present the implementation of a statistically optimal map-making process and its properties. The basic assumptions of this method are that the noise is Gaussian and independent between the stations and frequency channels and that the dynamic range of the data can been enhanced significantly during the off-line LOFAR processing. These assumptions match our expectations for the LOFAR Epoch of Reionization Experiment.
KSP team the LOFAR EoR
Labropoulos Panagiotis
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