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Cambridge University Press (CUP), Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, (32), 2015

DOI: 10.1017/pasa.2015.5

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The Murchison Widefield Array Correlator

Journal article published in 2015 by S. M. Ord ORCID, B. Crosse, D. Emrich ORCID, D. Pallot, R. B. Wayth ORCID, M. A. Clark, S. E. Tremblay ORCID, W. Arcus, D. Barnes ORCID, M. Bell ORCID, G. Bernardi ORCID, N. D. R. Bhat ORCID, J. D. Bowman, F. Briggs, J. D. Bunton ORCID and other authors.
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Abstract

AbstractThe Murchison Widefield Array is a Square Kilometre Array Precursor. The telescope is located at the Murchison Radio–astronomy Observatory in Western Australia. The MWA consists of 4 096 dipoles arranged into 128 dual polarisation aperture arrays forming a connected element interferometer that cross-correlates signals from all 256 inputs. A hybrid approach to the correlation task is employed, with some processing stages being performed by bespoke hardware, based on Field Programmable Gate Arrays, and others by Graphics Processing Units housed in general purpose rack mounted servers. The correlation capability required is approximately 8 tera floating point operations per second. The MWA has commenced operations and the correlator is generating 8.3 TB day−1 of correlation products, that are subsequently transferred 700 km from the MRO to Perth (WA) in real-time for storage and offline processing. In this paper, we outline the correlator design, signal path, and processing elements and present the data format for the internal and external interfaces.

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