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Study of redshifted H I from the epoch of reionization with drift scan

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Paul, S.
Sethi, S.
Subrahmanyan, R.
Udaya Shankar, N.
Dwarakanath, K.
Deshpande, A.
Bernardi, G.
Bowman, J.
Briggs, F.
Cappallo, R.
Corey, B.
Emrich, David
Gaensler, B.
Goeke, R.
Greenhill, L.
Hazelton, B.
Hewitt, J.
Johnston-Hollitt, M.
Kaplan, D.
Kasper, J.
Kratzenberg, E.
Lonsdale, C.
Lynch, Mervyn
McWhirter, S.
Mitchell, D.
Morales, M.
Morgan, E.
Oberoi, D.
Ord, Stephen
Prabu, T.
Rogers, A.
Roshi, A.
Srivani, K.
Tingay, Steven
Wayth, Randall
Webster, R.
Whitney, A.
Williams, Andrew
Williams, C.
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2014
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Paul, S. and Sethi, S. and Subrahmanyan, R. and Udaya Shankar, N. and Dwarakanath, K. and Deshpande, A. and Bernardi, G. et al. 2014. Study of redshifted H I from the epoch of reionization with drift scan. Astrophysical Journal. 793 (1): 28 (13 pp.).
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Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy
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This is an author-created, un-copy edited version of an article accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal. The publisher is not responsible for any errors or omissions in this version of the manuscript or any version derived from it. The Version of Record is available online at http://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/793/1/28

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The detection of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) in the redshifted 21-cm line is a challenging task. Here we formulate the detection of the EoR signal using the drift scan strategy. This method potentially has better instrumental stability as compared to the case where a single patch of sky is tracked. We demonstrate that the correlation time between measured visibilities could extend up to 1-2 hr for an interferometer array such as the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), which has a wide primary beam. We estimate the EoR power based on cross-correlation of visibilities across time and show that the drift scan strategy is capable of the detection of the EoR signal with comparable/better signal-to-noise as compared to the tracking case. We also estimate the visibility correlation for a set of bright point sources and argue that the statistical inhomogeneity of bright point sources might allow their separation from the EoR signal.