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Upper Limits on the 21 cm Epoch of Reionization Power Spectrum from One Night with LOFAR

  • Authors: A. H. Patil, S. Yatawatta, L. V. E. Koopmans, A. G. de Bruyn, M. A. Brentjens, S. Zaroubi, K. M. B. Asad, M. Hatef, V. Jelić, M. Mevius, A. R. Offringa, V. N. Pandey, H. Vedantham, F. B. Abdalla, W. N. Brouw, E. Chapman, B. Ciardi, B. K. Gehlot, A. Ghosh, G. Harker, I. T. Iliev, K. Kakiichi, S. Majumdar, M. B. Silva, G. Mellema, J. Schaye, D. Vrbanec, and S. J. Wijnholds

2017 The Astrophysical Journal 838 65.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 2.

Stokes I and Stokes V images after sky-model subtraction for the baseline ranges 30–800λ (top panels) and 50–250λ (bottom panels). Sub-bands with frequencies between 121 and 134 MHz went into these images. Note the reduction in the displayed field of view from 20 × 20° to 10 × 10°. Intensity units are in mJy/PSF, and the scale range is set by plus and minus three times the standard deviation over the full field in all images. Note the noise-like structure in the two Stokes V images (i.e., a lack of any features). The Stokes I images, on the other hand, clearly show the LOFAR-HBA primary beam attenuation effects on the remaining diffuse emission. The level of this emission is limited by the classical confusion noise within the primary beam. The 3° × 3° box delineates the area where we measure the power spectra.

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