Morning, Wednesday, January 9, 2019 – New Telescopes, Techniques and Technology
Session Co-Chairs: Steve Durand Durand (NRAO) and Rob Selina (NRAO)
- J1-1: ngVLA: Reference Design Overview (Robert Selina*)
- J1-2: Antenna Electronics Reference Design for the Next Generation Very Large Array
(James M. Jackson*, Robert Selina, Steven Durand) - J1-3: Trident Frequency Slice Architecture Correlator/Beamformer Reference Design for ngVLA (Mike Pleasance*, Brent Carlson, Michael Rupen)
- J1-4: Wideband Receiver Prototype for ngVLA: Development Report (Hamdi Mani*, Sander Weinreb, Jun Shi, Ahmed Akgiray)
- J1-5: Reference Front End Design for a Next Generation Very Large Array (Wes Grammer, Denis Urbain*, Silver Sturgis)
- J1-6: Experimental Evaluation Using VLA Datasets of RFI Mitigation Performance over Long ngVLA Baselines (Michael Lambert, Urvashi Rao Venkata, Michell C. Burnett, Brian D. Jeffs*)
- J1-7: Incoherent Clocking and Application to the ngVLA (Brent R. Carlson*, Thushara G. Gunaratne)
- J1-8: A High-Performance, Offset, Shaped Antenna Design for the Next Generation VLA Project (Lynn Baker*)
- J1-9: Composite 18m Antenna Reflector for the ngVLA (Dean R. Chalmers*, Gordon E. Lacy, Mohammad Islam, Richard Hellyer, Joeleff Fitzsimmons, Lynn Baker, Matt C. Fleming, Matt Wessel)
- J1-10: The Long Baseline Major Option for the Next Generation Very Large Array (Thomas J. Maccarone*)
Afternoon, Wednesday, January 9, 2019 – New Telescopes, Techniques, and Technology II
Session Co-Chairs: Jeff Mangum (NRAO) and Alyson Ford (University of Arizona)
- J2-1: Full Mueller AW Projection (Preshanth Jagannathan*, Sanjay Bhatnagar, Urvashi Rau, Andrew R. Tayler)
- J2-2: New Radio Frequency Interference Mitigation Techniques in the Context of 21-cm Cosmology (Mike J. Wilensky*)
- J2-3: Can we Calibrate Out the Wedge with HERA and its Successors? (Aaron Parsons*, Joshua Dillon) [WITHDRAWN]
- J2-4: RFI Mitigation for Pulsar Timing Using Spectral Kurtosis (Anastasia Kuske*, Luke Hawkins)
- J2-5: Digital Back-End for the New Ultra-Wideband Feed and Receiver for the Parkes Radio Telescope (Paul Roberts, Daniel Deorge, John Tuthill*, Mark Leach, Ron Beresford, Michael Brothers, Tasso Tzioumis) [WITHDRAWN]
- J2-6: Modular Digital Infrastructure for Radio Telescope Arrays (Sylas Ashton*)
- J2-7: Real-Time, All-Sky, Extreme Time-Resolution Imaging from the LWA-Sevilleta Telescope Using the EPIC Architecture (Nithyanandan Thyagarajan*, James Kent, Jayce Dowell, Adam P. Beardsley, Judd Bowman, Greg Taylor)
- J2-8: HIRAX Instrument Characterization (Emily R. Kuhn*, Benjamin R. Saliwanchik, Laura B. Newburgh)
- J2-9: ASKAP: The Australian SKA Pathfinder (Douglas C.-J. Bock*)
- J2-10: Commissioning Results and Future Work with the Focal-Plane L-Band Array Feed for the Green Bank Telescope (FLAG) (Mark W. Ruzindana*, Karl F. Warnick, Brian D. Jeffs, Richard A. Black, Mitchell C. Burnett, D.j. Pisano, Duncan R. Lorimer, Nicholas Pingel, Kaustubh Rajwade, Richard M. Prestage, Steve White, Bob Simon, Luke Hawkins, William Shillue, D A. Roshi, Devansh Agarwal)
Afternoon, Thursday, January 10, 2019 – Radio Emission from Extrasolar Planets
Session Co-Chairs: Joseph Lazio (JPL) and Alex Wolszczan (Penn State University)
- J3-1: Observing Jupter’s Auroral Radio Sources and Emissions with Juno (Masafumi Imai*, William S. Kurth, George B. Hospodarsky, Yasmina M. Martos, Philippe Louarn, Scott J. Bolton, John E. P. Connerney, Corentin K. Louis, Laurent Lamy, Philippe Zarka, Tracy E. Clarke, Charles A. Higgins, Baptiste Cecconi)
- J3-2: Using Radio Emission from Planetary-Mass Brown Dwarfs to Understand Planetary Magnetism (Melodie M. Kao*, Evgenya Shkolnik, Gregg Hallinan, J. S. Pineda, Adam Burgasser, David Stevenson)
- J3-3: The Search for Radio Emission from Exoplanets using LOFAR Beam-Formed Observations (Jake D. Turner*, Jean–Mathias Griessmeier, Philippe Zarka, Iaroslavna Vasylieva) [WITHDRAWN]
- J3-4: Monitoring Nearly 4000 Nearby Stellar Systems for Radio Exoplanets with the OVRO-LWA (Marin M. Anderson*, Gregg Hallinan)
- J3-5: Searching for Low-Frequency Radio Emissions from Nearby Stars and Exoplanets (Jason Ling*, Andrea Isella, Christopher M. Johns–Krull, Joseph T. Lazio)
- J3-6: Using SUNRISE as a Pathfinder for Detecting Low Frequency Radio Emission from Extrasolar Planets with Space Based Radio Arrays (Alexander M. Hegedus*, Justin C. Kasper, Joseph Lazio, Andrew Romero–Wolf, Timothy S. Bastian)
- J3-7: Radio Emission from Extrasolar Planets and the Astronomy & Astrophysics 2020 Decadal Survey (Joseph Lazio*)
Morning, Friday, January 11, 2019 – Cosmology and Astrophysics at Low Frequencies I
Session Co-Chairs: Greg Taylor (University of New Mexico), Nithyanandan Thyagarajan (National Radio Astronomy Observatory), and Judd Bowman (Arizona State University)
- J4-1: The Low Frequency Transient Sky (Gregg Hallinan*)
- J4-2: Strengthening the Cosmological Interpretation of the Edges Signal Through Instrumental Verification (Raul A. Monsalve*, Judd D. Bowman, Alan E. Rogers, Thomas J. Mozdzen, Nivedita Mahesh)
- J4-3: Pulsars at Low Radio Frequencies, Cyclic Spectroscopy, and Pular Timing Arrays (Timothy Dolch*)
- J4-4: Status of the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (David R. DeBoer*)
- J4-5: Dark Cosmology: Investigations of Dark Matter in the Dark Ages with the Space-Based Dark Ages Polarimeter Pathfinder (DAPPER) (Jack O. Burns*, Stuart Bale, Richard Bradley, Keith Tauscher, David Rapetti)
- J4-6: Fundamental Limitations on the Calibration of Redundant 21–cm Cosmology Instruments and Implications for HERA and the SKA (Ruby L. Byrne*, Miguel F. Morales, Bryna Hazelton, Wenyang Li, Nichole Barry)
- J4-7: A Radio Scream at Cosmic Dawn: Modeling the Impact of Radio-Loud Black Holes in the 21cm Signal (Aaron Ewall–Wice*, Tzu–Ching Chang, Joseph Lazio)
- J4-8: The High-z 21cm Global Spectrum Experiment (Jeffrey B. Peterson*)
- J4-9: Spectral Index of the Diffuse Radio Background Between 50 and 100 MHz (Thomas J. Mozdzen, Nivedita Mahesh*, Raul A. Monsalve, Alan E. E. Rogers, Judd D. Bowman)
- J4-10: FRB Detection and Characterization at the Dawn of the CHIME Era (Emmanuel Fonseca*)
- J4-11: The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME): Update and Status (Laura Newburgh*)
- J4-12: An Anti-Coincidence Search for Cosmic Transients with the LWA Radio Telescopes (Kenneth S. Obenberger*, Savin S. Varghese, Gregory B. Taylor)
- J4-13: Predictions and Detections of High Mass Galaxies in CHILES (Monica C. Sanchez*, Patricia A. Henning, Emmanuel Momjian, Jacqueline van Gorkom)
- J4-14: A Re-Analysis of PAPER-64 with the Simpleds Pipeline (Matthew Kolopanis*, Daniel C. Jacobs, Carina Cheng)
- J4-15: Full Data Analysis Pipeline for Low Radio Frequency Measurements of the Dark Ages and Cosmic Dawn (David Rapetti*, Keith Tauscher, Jack O. Burns, Jordan Mirocha)
- J4-16: Recent Results from the MWA and Lessons Learned Learned at the Forefront of EOR PS Analysis Efforts (Miguel F. Morales*)
Afternoon, Friday, January 11, 2019 – Cosmology and Astrophysics at Low Frequencies II
Session Co-Chairs: Greg Taylor (University of New Mexico), Nithyanandan Thyagarajan (National Radio Astronomy Observatory), and Judd Bowman (Arizona State University)
- J5-1: Commissioning of the HIRAX Eight-Element Pathfinder (Austine A. Gumba*)
- J5-2: A Simultaneous Search for Prompt Radio Emission Associated with GRBs Using the OVRO-LWA (Marin M. Anderson*, Gregg Hallinan)
- J5-3: Confronting the Challenges of Global EoR Detection (Keith Tauscher*, David Rapetti, Jack O. Burns)
- J5-4: Observing the A-Team with the ELWA (Frank K. Schinzel*, Paul Demorest, Kevin Stovall, Jayce Dowell, Gregory B. Taylor)
- J5-5: Commensal Low Frequencies on the NRAO VLA: The VLA Low-Band Ionosphere and Transient Experiment (VLITE) and VLITE-Fast (Tracy Clarke*, Wendy Peters, Simona Giacintucci, Namir Kassim, Matthew Kerr, Paul S. Ray, Julia Deneva)
- J5-6: Toward Experimental Evidence of Cosmic Dawn (Lincoln J. Greenhill*) [WITHDRAWN]
- J5-7: The Swarm Telescope Concept (Jayce Dowell*, Greg B. Taylor)
- J5-8: ALBATROS: A New Array for Low-Frequency Observations (Nivek Ghazi*)
- J5-9: The Cosmic Twilight Polarimeter (David D. Bordenave*, Bang D. Nhan, Richard F. Bradley, Jack O. Burns)
- J5-10: A Novel Approach to Detecting 21cm EoR Power Spectrum (Chris L. Carilli*, Nithyanandan Thyagarajan, Bojan Nikolic, James Kent, Kingsley Gale–Sides)
- J5-11: Scattering Study of Pulsars Below 100 MHz (Karishma Bansal*, Greg Taylor, Kevin Stovall, Jayce Dowell)
- J5-12: Milliarcsecond Imaging of the Highest Redshift Radio-Loud Quasars (Emmanuel Momjian*)
- J5-13: Mapping the Universe’s Accelerated Expansion with HIRAX (Hsin C. Chiang*)
- J5-14: RealFAST: Real-Time, Commensal Fast Transient Surveys with the Very Large Array (Geoffrey C. Bower*)
- J5-15: Perspectives on Cosmology & Astrophysics at Low Frequencies (Anthony J. Beasley*)