First Season MWA EoR Power Spectrum Results at Redshift 7

Understand

The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) has collected hundreds of hours of Epoch of Reionization (EoR) data and now faces the challenge of overcoming foreground and systematic contamination to reduce the data to a cosmological measurement.

• We introduce several novel analysis techniques such as cable reflection calibration, hyper-resolution gridding kernels, diffuse foreground model subtraction, and quality control methods.
• Each change to the analysis pipeline is tested against a two dimensional power spectrum figure of merit to demonstrate improvement.
• We incorporate the new techniques into a deep integration of 32 hours of MWA data.