Hafez, Yaser A., Davies, Rod D., Davis, Richard J., Dickinson, Clive, Battistelli, Elia S., Blanco, Francisco, ...
Accurate calibration of data is essential for the current generation of cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments. Using data from the Very Small Array (VSA), we describe procedures which will...
Radio source calibration for the VSA and other CMB instruments at around 30 GHz (2008)
Hafez, Yaser A., Davies, Rod D., Davis, Richard J., Dickinson, Clive, Battistelli, Elia S., Blanco, Francisco, ...
Accurate calibration of data is essential for the current generation of CMB experiments. Using data from the Very Small Array (VSA), we describe procedures which will lead to an accuracy of 1 percent...
Clover - A B-mode polarization experiment (2006)
Taylor, Angela C., Collaboration, For The Clover
Clover is a new instrument being built to detect the B-mode polarization of the CMB. It consists of three telescopes operating at 97, 150, and 220 GHz and will be sited in Chile at the Llano de...
Non-Gaussianity in the Very Small Array CMB maps with Smooth-Goodness-of-fit tests (2006)
Rubino-Martin, Jose Alberto, Aliaga, Antonio M., Barreiro, R. B., Battye, Richard A., Carreira, Pedro, Cleary, Kieran, ...
(Abridged) We have used the Rayner & Best (1989) smooth tests of goodness-of-fit to study the Gaussianity of the Very Small Array (VSA) data. Out of the 41 published VSA individual pointings...
A VSA search for the extended Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect in the Corona Borealis Supercluster (2005)
Genova-Santos, Ricardo, Rubino-Martin, Jose Alberto, Rebolo, Rafael, Cleary, Kieran, Davies, Rod D., Davis, Richard J., ...
We present interferometric imaging at 33 GHz of the Corona Borealis supercluster, using the extended configuration of the Very Small Array. A total area of 24 deg^2 has been imaged, with an angular...
Thesis (M.S.) -- Mississippi State University. Department of Geosciences.
The Yazoo Clay is a calcareous fossiliferous mudrock that outcrops in a northwest-southeast belt across much of Mississippi and in adjacent states. Based on over 240 X-ray diffraction analyses, the...
Source subtraction for the extended Very Small Array and 33-GHz source count estimates (2004)
Cleary, Kieran A., Taylor, Angela C., Waldram, Elizabeth, Battye, Richard A., Dickinson, Clive, Davies, Rod D., ...
We describe the source subtraction strategy and observations for the extended Very Small Array, a CMB interferometer operating at 33 GHz. A total of 453 sources were monitored at 33 GHz using a...
High sensitivity measurements of the CMB power spectrum with the extended Very Small Array (2004)
Dickinson, Clive, Battye, Richard A., Cleary, Kieran, Davies, Rod D., Davis, Richard J., Genova-Santos, Ricardo, ...
We present deep Ka-band ($\nu \approx 33$ GHz) observations of the CMB made with the extended Very Small Array (VSA). This configuration produces a naturally weighted synthesized FWHM beamwidth of...
Cosmological parameter estimation using Very Small Array data out to l=1500 (2004)
Rebolo, Rafael, Battye, Richard A., Carreira, Pedro, Cleary, Kieran, Davies, Rod D., Davis, Richard J., ...
We estimate cosmological parameters using data obtained by the Very Small Array (VSA) in its extended configuration, in conjunction with a variety of other CMB data and external priors. Within the...
Estimating the bispectrum of the Very Small Array data (2004)
Smith, Sarah, Rocha, Graca, Challinor, Anthony, Battye, Richard A., Carreira, Pedro, Cleary, Kieran, ...
We estimate the bispectrum of the Very Small Array data from the compact and extended configuration observations released in December 2002, and compare our results to those obtained from Gaussian...
Cosmological parameter estimation using Very Small Array data out to l? = 1500 (2004)
Rebolo, Rafael, Battye, Richard A., Carreira, Pedro, Cleary, Kieran, Davies, Rod D., Davis, Richard J., ...
Searching for non-Gaussianity in the VSA data (2003)
Savage, Richard, Battye, Richard A., Carreira, Pedro, Cleary, Kieran, Davies, Rod D., Davis, Richard J., ...
We have tested Very Small Array (VSA) observations of three regions of sky for the presence of non-Gaussianity, using high-order cumulants, Minkowski functionals, a wavelet-based test and a Bayesian...
Observing the CMB at High-l using the VSA and AMI (2003)
We discuss two experiments - the Very Small Array (VSA) and the Arcminute MicroKelvin Imager (AMI) - and their prospects for observing the CMB at high angular multipoles. Whilst the VSA is primarily...
9C: A Survey of Radio Sources at 15 GHz with the Ryle Telescope (2003)
Waldram, Elizabeth M., Pooley, Guy G., Grainge, Keith J. B., Jones, Michael E., Saunders, Richard D. E., Scott, Paul F., ...
The fields chosen for the first observations of the cosmic microwave background with the Very Small Array have been surveyed with the Ryle Telescope at 15 GHz. We have covered three regions around RA...
The CMB power spectrum out to l=1400 measured by the VSA (2002)
Grainge, Keith, Carreira, Pedro, Cleary, Kieran, Davies, Rod D., Davis, Richard J., Dickinson, Clive, ...
We have observed the cosmic microwave background (CMB) in three regions of sky using the Very Small Array (VSA) in an extended configuration with antennas of beamwidth 2 degrees at 34 GHz. Combined...
Cosmological parameter estimation and Bayesian model comparison using VSA data (2002)
Slosar, Anze, Carreira, Pedro, Cleary, Kieran, Davies, Rod D., Davis, Richard J., Dickinson, Clive, ...
We constrain the basic comological parameters using the first observations by the Very Small Array (VSA) in its extended configuration, together with existing cosmic microwave background data and...
First results from the Very Small Array -- IV. Cosmological parameter estimation (2002)
Rubino-Martin, Jose Alberto, Rebolo, Rafael, Carreira, Pedro, Cleary, Kieran, Davies, Rod D., Davis, Richard J., ...
We investigate the constraints on basic cosmological parameters set by the first compact-configuration observations of the Very Small Array (VSA), and other cosmological data sets, in the standard...
First results from the Very Small Array -- I. Observational methods (2002)
Watson, Robert A., Carreira, Pedro, Cleary, Kieran, Davies, Rod D., Davis, Richard J., Dickinson, Clive, ...
The Very Small Array (VSA) is a synthesis telescope designed to image faint structures in the cosmic microwave background on degree and sub-degree angular scales. The VSA has key differences from...
First results from the Very Small Array -- III. The CMB power spectrum (2002)
Scott, Paul F., Carreira, Pedro, Cleary, Kieran, Davies, Rod D., Davis, Richard, Dickinson, Clive, ...
We present the power spectrum of the fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background detected by the Very Small Array (VSA) in its first season of observations in its compact configuration. We find...
First results from the Very Small Array -- II. Observations of the CMB (2002)
Taylor, Angela C., Carreira, Pedro, Cleary, Kieran, Davies, Rod D., Davis, Richard J., Dickinson, Clive, ...
We have observed the cosmic microwave background temperature fluctuations in eight fields covering three separated areas of sky with the Very Small Array at 34 GHz. A total area of 101 square degrees...
The Very Small Array (VSA) is a fourteen-element interferometer designed to study the cosmic microwave background on angular scales of 2.4 to 0.2 degrees (angular multipoles l = 150 to 1800). It...
The radio source counts at 15 GHz and their implications for cm-wave CMB imaging (2001)
Taylor, Angela C., Grainge, Keith, Jones, Michael E., Pooley, G. G., Saunders, Richard, Waldram, E. M.
We present the preliminary results of a new survey of radio sources using the Ryle telescope at 15.2 GHz. This is the highest frequency at which a survey has been done that is relevant to the issue...