J1  New Telescopes, Techniques and Technology I

Thursday, January 4  08:20-12:00  Room 265

Session Chairs:  Danny Jacobs, David DeBoer

08:20  J1-1  THE SCIENCE PROGRAM FOR THE NEXT GENERATION VERY LARGE ARRAY

Chris Carilli*, Eric Murphy, Rob Selina

NRAO, Socorro


08:40  J1-2  ANTENNA CONCEPT FOR THE NEXT GENERATION VERY LARGE ARRAY

James M. Jackson*, Robert Selina, Wes Grammer

National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro, NM


09:00  J1-3  SEARCHING FOR COSMIC DAWN FROM THE SUB-ANTARCTIC

Liju Philip*

School of Chemistry and Physics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, KZN, SOUTH AFRICA


09:20  J1-4  BASELINE RECEIVER CONCEPT FOR A NEXT GENERATION VERY LARGE ARRAY

Wes Grammer*1, Silver Sturgis1, Sivasankaran Srikanth2, Rob Selina1

1Electronics, NRAO, Socorro NM
2Central Development Lab, NRAO, Charlottesville VA


09:40  J1-5  THE BREAKTHROUGH LISTEN SEARCH FOR INTELLIGENT LIFE BEYOND EARTH

Andrew P. V. Siemion*1, Steve Croft1, David DeBoer1, Emilio Enriquez1,2, Griffin Foster1,3, Vishal Gajjar1, Greg Hellbourg1, Jack Hickish1, Brian Lacki1, Matt Lebofsky1, David MacMahon1, Danny Price1,4, Dan Werthimer1, Gerry Zhang1

1UC Berkeley, CA
2Radboud University, Nijmegen, NETHERLANDS
3University of Oxford, Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM
4Swinburne University, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA


10:20  J1-6  SEPARATING THE GLOBAL 21-CM SIGNAL FROM STRONG FOREGROUNDS AND INSTRUMENT SYSTEMATICS USING AN SVD/MCMC PIPELINE

Keith Tauscher*1, Jack O. Burns1, David Rapetti1,2, Eric R. Switzer3

1Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
2NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA
3NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD


10:40  J1-7  A JOINT DECONVOLUTION ALGORITHM TO COMBINE SINGLE DISH AND INTERFEROMETER DATA FOR WIDEBAND MULTI-TERM IMAGING

Urvashi Rau*1, Nikhil Naik2

1National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro, New Mexico
2Indian Institute of Technology, KGP, Kharagpur, West Bengal, INDIA


11:00  J1-8  COMPARING REDUNDANT AND SKY MODEL BASED INTERFEROMETRIC CALIBRATION: A FIRST LOOK WITH PHASE II OF THE MWA

Wenyang Li*

Physics, Brown University, Providence, RI


11:20  J1-9  OPTIMIZING LOW FREQUENCY ARRAY DESIGN

Matthew Kolopanis*, Daniel C. Jacobs

Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona


11:40  J1-10  A RESISTIVE WIDEBAND BEAM-SPLITTER SCREEN

Nivedita Mahesh*1, Ravi Subrahmanyan2, Uday N. Shankar2, Agaram Raghunathan2

1School of Earth & Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
2Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, Karnataka, INDIA