Foreground simulations for the LOFAR-epoch of reionization experiment (CROSBI ID 219265)
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Jelić, Vibor ; Zaroubi, S. ; Labropoulos, P. ; Thomas, R.M. ; Bernardi, G. ; Brentjens, M.A. ; de Bruyn, A.G. ; Ciardi, B. ; Harker, G. ; Koopmans, L.V.E. ; Pandey, V.N. ; Schaye, J. ; Yatawatta, S.
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Foreground simulations for the LOFAR-epoch of reionization experiment
Future high-redshift 21-cm experiments will suffer from a high degree of contamination, due both to astrophysical foregrounds and to non-astrophysical and instrumental effects. In order to reliably extract the cosmological signal from the observed data, it is essential to understand very well all data components and their influence on the extracted signal. Here we present simulated astrophysical foregrounds data cubes and discuss their possible statistical effects on the data. The foreground maps are produced assuming 5° × 5° windows that match those expected to be observed by the LOFAR epoch of reionization (EoR) key science project. We show that with the expected LOFAR-EoR sky and receiver noise levels, which amount to ~52mK at 150 MHz after 400 h of total observing time, a simple polynomial fit allows a statistical reconstruction of the signal. We also show that the polynomial fitting will work for maps with realistic yet idealized instrument response, i.e. a response that includes only a uniform uv coverage as a function of frequency and ignores many other uncertainties. Polarized Galactic synchrotron maps that include internal polarization and a number of Faraday screens along the line of sight are also simulated. The importance of these stems from the fact that the LOFAR instrument, in common with all current interferometric EoR experiments, has an instrumentally polarized response.
instrumentation: interferometers ; cosmology: observation ; cosmology: theory ; diffuse radiation ; radio continuum: general ; radio lines: general
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Podaci o izdanju
389 (3)
2008.
1319-1335
objavljeno
0035-8711
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13634.x