The AMiBA Hexapod Telescope Mount (2009)
Koch, Patrick M., Kesteven, Michael, Nishioka, Hiroaki, Jiang, Homin, Lin, Kai-Yang, Umetsu, Keiichi, ...
AMiBA is the largest hexapod astronomical telescope in current operation. We present a description of this novel hexapod mount with its main mechanical components -- the support cone, universal...
The Yuan-Tseh Lee Array for Microwave Background (2009)
Pablo Altamirano, Chia-hao Chang, Shu-hao Chang, Su-wei Chang, Chung-cheng Chen, ...
The Yuan-Tseh Lee Array for Microwave Background Anisotropy (AMiBA) is the first interferometer dedicated to studying the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation at 3mm wavelength. The choice of...
The Yuan-Tseh Lee Array for Microwave Background Anisotropy (2008)
Ho, Paul T. P., Altamirano, Pablo, Chang, Chia-Hao, Chang, Shu-Hao, Chang, Su-Wei, Chen, Chung-Cheng, ...
The Yuan-Tseh Lee Array for Microwave Background Anisotropy (AMiBA) is the first interferometer dedicated to studying the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation at 3mm wavelength. The choice of...
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...
Preliminary Sunyaev Zel'dovich Observations of Galaxy Clusters with OCRA-p (2007)
Lancaster, Katy, Birkinshaw, Mark, Gawronski, Marcin P., Browne, Ian, Feiler, Roman, Kus, Andrzej, ...
We present 30 GHz Sunyaev Zel'dovich (SZ) observations of a sample of four galaxy clusters with a prototype of the One Centimetre Receiver Array (OCRA-p) which is mounted on the Torun 32-m telescope....
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...
Very Small Array observations of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in nearby galaxy clusters (2004)
Lancaster, Katy, Genova-Santos, Ricardo, Falcon, Nelson, Grainge, Keith, Gutierrez, Carlos, Kneissl, Ruediger, ...
We present VSA observations (~34GHz) on scales ~20 arcmin towards a complete, X-ray-flux-limited sample of seven clusters at redshift z
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...
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...