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  1. Assessment of Ionospheric Activity Tolerances for Epoch of Reionization Science with the Murchison Widefield Array

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, October 2018, American Astronomical Society

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  2. The Phase II Murchison Widefield Array: Design overview

    Article • Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, January 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  3. Building Models for Extended Radio Sources: Implications for Epoch of Reionisation Science

    Article • Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, January 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Cathryn M Trott, Dr Randall B Wayth

  4. Calibration and Stokes Imaging with Full Embedded Element Primary Beam Model for the Murchison Widefield Array

    Article • Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, January 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  5. A High-Resolution Foreground Model for the MWA EoR1 Field: Model and Implications for EoR Power Spectrum Analysis

    Article • Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, January 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  6. The Engineering Development Array: A Low Frequency Radio Telescope Utilising SKA Precursor Technology

    Article • Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, January 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  7. A MULTI-RESOLUTION, MULTI-EPOCH LOW RADIO FREQUENCY SURVEY OF THE Kepler K2 MISSION CAMPAIGN 1 FIELD

    Article • The Astronomical Journal, September 2016, American Astronomical Society

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  8. LIMITS ON FAST RADIO BURSTS FROM FOUR YEARS OF THE V-FASTR EXPERIMENT

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, August 2016, American Astronomical Society

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  9. BEAM-FORMING ERRORS IN MURCHISON WIDEFIELD ARRAY PHASED ARRAY ANTENNAS AND THEIR EFFECTS ON EPOCH OF REIONIZATION SCIENCE

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, March 2016, American Astronomical Society

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  10. Limits on Fast Radio Bursts and other transient sources at 182 MHz using the Murchison Widefield Array

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, March 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  11. The host galaxy of a fast radio burst

    Article • Nature, February 2016, Nature

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  12. Parametrizing Epoch of Reionization foregrounds: a deep survey of low-frequency point-source spectra with the Murchison Widefield Array

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, February 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  13. Spectral Calibration Requirements of Radio Interferometers for Epoch of Reionisation Science with the SKA

    Article • Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, January 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Cathryn M Trott, Dr Randall B Wayth

  14. A Large-Scale, Low-Frequency Murchison Widefield Array Survey of Galactic H ii Regions between 260 < l < 340

    Article • Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, January 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Luke Hindson, Dr Randall B Wayth

  15. Strategies for Finding Prompt Radio Counterparts to Gravitational Wave Transients with the Murchison Widefield Array

    Article • Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, January 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  16. A SEARCH FOR FAST RADIO BURSTS AT LOW FREQUENCIES WITH MURCHISON WIDEFIELD ARRAY HIGH TIME RESOLUTION IMAGING

    Article • The Astronomical Journal, December 2015, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  17. Characterization of a Low-Frequency Radio Astronomy Prototype Array in Western Australia

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, December 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  18. A DEEP SEARCH FOR PROMPT RADIO EMISSION FROM THE SHORT GRB 150424A WITH THE MURCHISON WIDEFIELD ARRAY

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal Letters, November 2015, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  19. The statistics of low frequency radio interference at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory

    Article • November 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  20. THE IMPACT OF THE IONOSPHERE ON GROUND-BASED DETECTION OF THE GLOBAL EPOCH OF REIONIZATION SIGNAL

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, October 2015, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  21. Quantifying ionospheric effects on time-domain astrophysics with the Murchison Widefield Array

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, September 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  22. BROADBAND SPECTRAL MODELING OF THE EXTREME GIGAHERTZ-PEAKED SPECTRUM RADIO SOURCE PKS B0008-421

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, August 2015, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  23. MURCHISON WIDEFIELD ARRAY OBSERVATIONS OF ANOMALOUS VARIABILITY: A SERENDIPITOUS NIGHT-TIME DETECTION OF INTERPLANETARY SCINTILLATION

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal Letters, August 2015, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  24. SIMULTANEOUS OBSERVATIONS OF GIANT PULSES FROM THE CRAB PULSAR, WITH THE MURCHISON WIDEFIELD ARRAY AND PARKES RADIO TELESCOPE: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE GIANT PULSE EMISSION MECHANISM

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, August 2015, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  25. CONFIRMATION OF WIDE-FIELD SIGNATURES IN REDSHIFTED 21 cm POWER SPECTRA

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal Letters, July 2015, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  26. Power spectrum analysis of ionospheric fluctuations with the Murchison Widefield Array

    Article • Radio Science, July 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  27. Measuring phased-array antenna beampatterns with high dynamic range for the Murchison Widefield Array using 137 MHz ORBCOMM satellites

    Article • Radio Science, July 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  28. An analysis of the halo and relic radio emission from Abell 3376 from Murchison Widefield Array observations

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, June 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  29. Empirical covariance modeling for 21 cm power spectrum estimation: A method demonstration and new limits from early Murchison Widefield Array 128-tile data

    Article • Physical Review D, June 2015, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  30. Real‐time imaging of density ducts between the plasmasphere and ionosphere

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, May 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  31. FOREGROUNDS IN WIDE-FIELD REDSHIFTED 21 cm POWER SPECTRA

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, April 2015, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  32. A digital-receiver for the MurchisonWidefield Array

    Article • Experimental Astronomy, February 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  33. THE SPECTRAL VARIABILITY OF THE GHZ-PEAKED SPECTRUM RADIO SOURCE PKS 1718-649 AND A COMPARISON OF ABSORPTION MODELS

    Article • The Astronomical Journal, January 2015, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  34. Serendipitous discovery of a dying Giant Radio Galaxy associated with NGC 1534, using the Murchison Widefield Array

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, January 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  35. BIGHORNS - Broadband Instrument for Global HydrOgen ReioNisation Signal

    Article • Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, January 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  36. The Low-Frequency Environment of the Murchison Widefield Array: Radio-Frequency Interference Analysis and Mitigation

    Article • Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, January 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  37. GLEAM: The GaLactic and Extragalactic All-Sky MWA Survey

    Article • Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, January 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  38. Ionospheric Modelling using GPS to Calibrate the MWA. I: Comparison of First Order Ionospheric Effects between GPS Models and MWA Observations

    Article • Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, January 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  39. The Murchison Widefield Array Correlator

    Article • Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, January 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  40. Understanding instrumental Stokes leakage in Murchison Widefield Array polarimetry

    Article • Radio Science, January 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  41. The High Time and Frequency Resolution Capabilities of the Murchison Widefield Array

    Article • Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, January 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  42. Modelling of the spectral energy distribution of Fornax A: leptonic and hadronic production of high-energy emission from the radio lobes

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, December 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  43. Limits on low-frequency radio emission from southern exoplanets with the Murchison Widefield Array

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, November 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  44. The First Murchison Widefield Array low-frequency radio observations of cluster scale non-thermal emission: the case of Abell 3667

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, September 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  45. STUDY OF REDSHIFTED H I FROM THE EPOCH OF REIONIZATION WITH DRIFT SCAN

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, September 2014, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  46. WSCLEAN: an implementation of a fast, generic wide-field imager for radio astronomy

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, August 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  47. THE LOW-FREQUENCY CHARACTERISTICS OF PSR J0437–4715 OBSERVED WITH THE MURCHISON WIDE-FIELD ARRAY

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal Letters, August 2014, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  48. A SEARCH FOR FAST RADIO BURSTS ASSOCIATED WITH GAMMA-RAY BURSTS

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, July 2014, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  49. The Murchison Widefield Array Commissioning Survey: A Low-Frequency Catalogue of 14 110 Compact Radio Sources over 6 100 Square Degrees

    Article • Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, January 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Natasha Hurley-Walker, Dr Randall B Wayth

  50. Overcoming real-world obstacles in 21 cm power spectrum estimation: A method demonstration and results from early Murchison Widefield Array data

    Article • Physical Review D, January 2014, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  51. Real-Time Adaptive Event Detection in Astronomical Data Streams

    Article • IEEE Intelligent Systems, January 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  52. A survey for transients and variables with the Murchison Widefield Array 32-tile prototype at 154 MHz

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, December 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  53. PROSPECTS FOR THE DETECTION OF FAST RADIO BURSTS WITH THE MURCHISON WIDEFIELD ARRAY

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal Letters, September 2013, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  54. The giant lobes of Centaurus A observed at 118 MHz with the Murchison Widefield Array

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, September 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  55. A STUDY OF FUNDAMENTAL LIMITATIONS TO STATISTICAL DETECTION OF REDSHIFTED H I FROM THE EPOCH OF REIONIZATION

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, September 2013, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  56. ON THE DETECTION AND TRACKING OF SPACE DEBRIS USING THE MURCHISON WIDEFIELD ARRAY. I. SIMULATIONS AND TEST OBSERVATIONS DEMONSTRATE FEASIBILITY

    Article • The Astronomical Journal, September 2013, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  57. First results from AAVS 0.5: A prototype array for next-generation radio astronomy

    Article • September 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  58. A 189 MHz, 2400 deg 2 POLARIZATION SURVEY WITH THE MURCHISON WIDEFIELD ARRAY 32-ELEMENT PROTOTYPE

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, June 2013, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  59. The Murchison Widefield Array: solar science with the low frequency SKA Precursor

    Article • Journal of Physics Conference Series, June 2013, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  60. A FRAMEWORK FOR INTERPRETING FAST RADIO TRANSIENTS SEARCH EXPERIMENTS: APPLICATION TO THE V-FASTR EXPERIMENT

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, March 2013, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  61. VAST: An ASKAP Survey for Variables and Slow Transients

    Article • Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, January 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Tara Murphy, Dr Randall B Wayth

  62. The Murchison Widefield Array: The Square Kilometre Array Precursor at Low Radio Frequencies

    Article • Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, January 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  63. Science with the Murchison Widefield Array

    Article • Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, January 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  64. LOW-FREQUENCY OBSERVATIONS OF THE MOON WITH THE MURCHISON WIDEFIELD ARRAY

    Article • The Astronomical Journal, December 2012, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  65. The EoR sensitivity of the Murchison Widefield Array

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters, November 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  66. FAST HOLOGRAPHIC DECONVOLUTION: A NEW TECHNIQUE FOR PRECISION RADIO INTERFEROMETRY

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, October 2012, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  67. THE IMPACT OF POINT-SOURCE SUBTRACTION RESIDUALS ON 21 cm EPOCH OF REIONIZATION ESTIMATION

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, September 2012, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  68. A new layout optimization technique for interferometric arrays, applied to the Murchison Widefield Array

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, August 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  69. LOW-FREQUENCY IMAGING OF FIELDS AT HIGH GALACTIC LATITUDE WITH THE MURCHISON WIDEFIELD ARRAY 32 ELEMENT PROTOTYPE

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, July 2012, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  70. LIMITS ON THE EVENT RATES OF FAST RADIO TRANSIENTS FROM THE V-FASTR EXPERIMENT

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal Letters, June 2012, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor David R Thompson, Dr Randall B Wayth

  71. The VLBA Fast Radio Transient Experiment: Progress and Early Results

    Article • Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, September 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  72. Source Detection with Interferometric Datasets

    Article • Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, September 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  73. Differential microlensing measurements of quasar broad-line kinematics in Q2237+0305

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, July 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  74. V-FASTR: THE VLBA FAST RADIO TRANSIENTS EXPERIMENT

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, June 2011, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  75. DETECTION OF FAST RADIO TRANSIENTS WITH MULTIPLE STATIONS: A CASE STUDY USING THE VERY LONG BASELINE ARRAY

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, June 2011, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  76. A VLBA SEARCH FOR BINARY BLACK HOLES IN ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI WITH DOUBLE-PEAKED OPTICAL EMISSION LINE SPECTRA

    Article • The Astronomical Journal, April 2011, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  77. SOURCE DETECTION IN INTERFEROMETRIC VISIBILITY DATA. I. FUNDAMENTAL ESTIMATION LIMITS

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, March 2011, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  78. DiFX-2: A More Flexible, Efficient, Robust, and Powerful Software Correlator

    Article • Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, March 2011, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  79. Subtraction of point sources from interferometric radio images through an algebraic forward modelling scheme

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, February 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  80. FIRST SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGING OBSERVATIONS OF THE SUN AT LOW RADIO FREQUENCIES WITH THE MURCHISON WIDEFIELD ARRAY PROTOTYPE

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal Letters, January 2011, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  81. Subtraction of Bright Point Sources from Synthesis Images of the Epoch of Reionization

    Article • Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, January 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  82. First Geodetic Observations Using New VLBI Stations ASKAP-29 and WARK12M

    Article • Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, January 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  83. EVOLUTION OF THE PARSEC-SCALE STRUCTURE OF PKS 1934–638 REVISITED: FIRST SCIENCE WITH THE ASKAP AND NEW ZEALAND TELESCOPES

    Article • The Astronomical Journal, October 2010, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  84. Enabling a high throughput real time data pipeline for a large radio telescope array with GPUs

    Article • Computer Physics Communications, October 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  85. The Commensal Real-Time ASKAP Fast-Transients (CRAFT) Survey

    Article • Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, January 2010, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  86. The Murchison Widefield Array: Design Overview

    Article • Proceedings of the IEEE, August 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  87. Real-Time Calibration of the Murchison Widefield Array

    Article • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, October 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  88. On the detectability of the hydrogen 3-cm fine-structure line from the epoch of reionization

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, October 2008, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  89. The Sloan Lens ACS Survey. VII. Elliptical Galaxy Scaling Laws from Direct Observational Mass Measurements

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, September 2008, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  90. The Sloan Lens ACS Survey. V. The Full ACS Strong‐Lens Sample

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, August 2008, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  91. Detection of Crab Giant Pulses Using the Mileura Widefield Array Low Frequency Demonstrator Field Prototype System

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, August 2007, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  92. Field Deployment of Prototype Antenna Tiles for the Mileura Widefield Array Low Frequency Demonstrator

    Article • The Astronomical Journal, March 2007, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  93. LENSVIEW: software for modelling resolved gravitational lens images

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, November 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  94. H1517+656: The Birth of a BL Lacertae Object?

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, July 2005, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  95. The lens and source of the optical Einstein ring gravitational lens ER 0047-2808

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, July 2005, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  96. A microlensing measurement of the size of the broad emission-line region in the lensed quasar QSO 2237+0305

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, May 2005, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Randall B Wayth

  97. Einstein Ring Constraints on the Shapes of Dark Matter Haloes

    Article • Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, July 2004, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Randall B Wayth