Publications

Articles

"RESOLVE: A new algorithm for aperture synthesis imaging of extended emission in radio astronomy"
Authors: H.Junklewitz, M.R.Bell, M.Selig, T.A.Enßlin
Publication: submitted to Astronomy & Astrophysics - arXiv:1311.5282
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"NIFTY - Numerical Information Field Theory - a versatile Python library for signal inference"
Authors: Marco Selig, Michael R. Bell, Henrik Junklewitz, Niels Oppermann, Martin Reinecke, Maksim Greiner, Carlos Pachajoa, Torsten A. Enßlin
Publication: Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing - arXiv:1301.4499
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"Improved CLEAN reconstructions for rotation measure synthesis with maximum likelihood estimation"
Authors: M. R. Bell, N. Oppermann, A. Crai, T. A. Enßlin
Publication: A&A, Volume 551, L7 (2013) - arXiv:1211.5105
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"Reconstruction of Gaussian and log-normal fields with spectral smoothness"
Authors: N. Oppermann, M. Selig, M. R. Bell, T. A. Enßlin
Publication: Submitted to Phys. Rev. E - arXiv:1210.6866
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"M87 at metre wavelengths: the LOFAR picture"
AuthorsF. de Gasperin, E. Orru', M. Murgia, A. Merloni, H. Falcke, R. Beck, R. Beswick, L. Birzan, A. Bonafede, M. Bruggen, G. Brunetti, K. Chyzy, J. Conway, J.H. Croston, T. Ensslin, C. Ferrari, G. Heald, S. Heidenreich, N. Jackson, G. Macario, J. McKean, G. Miley, R. Morganti, A. Offringa, R. Pizzo, D. Rafferty, H. Roettgering, A. Shulevski, M. Steinmetz, C. Tasse, S. van der Tol, W. van Driel, R. J. van Weeren, J. E. van Zwieten, A. Alexov, J. Anderson, A. Asgekar, M. Avruch, M. Bell, M. R. Bell, M. Bentum, G. Bernardi, P. Best, F. Breitling, J. W. Broderick, A. Butcher, B. Ciardi, R. J. Dettmar, J. Eisloeffel, W. Frieswijk, H. Gankema, M. Garrett, M. Gerbers, J. M. Griessmeier, A. W. Gunst, T. E. Hassall, J. Hessels, M. Hoeft, A. Horneffer, A. Karastergiou, J. Koehler, Y. Koopman, G. Kuper, et al. (32 additional authors not shown)
Publication: A&A, Volume 547, A56 (2012) - arXiv:1210.1346
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"The LOFAR radio environment"
Authors: A. R. Offringa, A. G. de Bruyn, S. Zaroubi, G. van Diepen, O. Martinez-Ruby, P. Labropoulos, M. A. Brentjens, B. Ciardi, S. Daiboo, G. Harker, V. Jelic, S. Kazemi, L. V. E. Koopmans, G. Mellema, V. N. Pandey, R. F. Pizzo, J. Schaye, H. Vedantham, V. Veligatla, S. J. Wijnholds, S. Yatawatta, P. Zarka, A. Alexov, J. Anderson, A. Asgekar, M. Avruch, R. Beck, M. Bell, M. R. Bell, M. Bentum, G. Bernardi, P. Best, L. Birzan, A. Bonafede, F. Breitling, J. W. Broderick, M. Bruggen, H. Butcher, J. Conway, M. de Vos, R. J. Dettmar, J. Eisloeffel, H. Falcke, R. Fender, W. Frieswijk, M. Gerbers, J. M. Griessmeier, A. W. Gunst, T. E. Hassall, G. Heald, J. Hessels, M. Hoeft, A. Horneffer, A. Karastergiou, V. Kondratiev, Y. Koopman, M. Kuniyoshi, G. Kuper, P. Maat, G. Mann, J. McKean, H. Meulman, M. Mevius, et al. (33 additional authors not shown)
Publication: A&A, Volume 549, A11 (2012) - arXiv:1210.0393
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"First LOFAR observations at very low frequencies of cluster-scale non-thermal emission: the case of Abell 2256"
Authors: R. J. van Weeren, H. J. A. Rottgering, D. A. Rafferty, R. Pizzo, A. Bonafede, M. Bruggen, G. Brunetti, C. Ferrari, E. Orru, G. Heald, J. P. McKean, C. Tasse, F. de Gasperin, L. Birzan, J. E. van Zwieten, S. van der Tol, A. Shulevski, N. Jackson, A. R. Offringa, J. Conway, H. T. Intema, T. E. Clarke, I. van Bemmel, G. K. Miley, G. J. White, M. Hoeft, R. Cassano, G. Macario, R. Morganti, M. W. Wise, C. Horellou, E. A. Valentijn, O. Wucknitz, K. Kuijken, T A. Ensslin, J. Anderson, A. Asgekar, I. M. Avruch, R. Beck, M. E. Bell, M. R. Bell, M. J. Bentum, G. Bernardi, P. Best, A.-J. Boonstra, M. Brentjens, R. H. van de Brink, J. Broderick, W. N. Brouw, H. R. Butcher, W. van Cappellen, B. Ciardi, J. Eisloffel, H. Falcke, R. Fender, M. A. Garrett, M. Gerbers, A. Gunst, J. P. Hamaker T. Hassall, J. W. T. Hessels, et al. (22 additional authors not shown)
Publication: A&A, Volume 543, A43 (2012) - arXiv:1205.4730
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"Wide-band Simultaneous Observations of Pulsars: Disentangling Dispersion Measure and Profile Variations"

Authors: T. E. Hassall, B. W. Stappers, J. W. T. Hessels, M. Kramer, A. Alexov, K. Anderson, T. Coenen, A. Karastergiou, E. F. Keane, V. I. Kondratiev, K. Lazaridis, J. van Leeuwen, A. Noutsos, M. Serylak, C. Sobey, J. P. W. Verbiest, P. Weltevrede, K. Zagkouris, R. Fender, R. A. M. J. Wijers, L. Bahren, M. E. Bell, J. W. Broderick, S. Corbel, E. J. Daw, V. S. Dhillon, J. Eisloffel, H. Falcke, J.-M. Griessmeier, P. Jonker, C. Law, S. Markoff, J. C. A. Miller-Jones, R. Osten, E. Rol, A. M. M. Scaife, B. Scheers, P. Schellart, H. Spreeuw, J. Swinbank, S. ter Veen, M. W. Wise, R. Wijnands, O. Wucknitz, P.Zarka, A. Asgekar, M. R. Bell, M. J. Bentum, G. Bernardi, P. Best, A. Bonafede, A. J. Boonstra, M. Brentjens, W. N. Brouw, M. Bruggen, H. R. Butcher, B. Ciardi, M. A. Garrett, M. Gerbers, A. W. Gunst, et al. (34 additional authors not shown)
Publication: Accepted by A&A - arXiv:1204.3864v1
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"An improved map of the Galactic Faraday sky"
Authors: N. Oppermann, H. Junklewitz, G. Robbers, M. R. Bell, T. A. Enßlin, A. Bonafede, R. Braun, J. C. Brown, T. E. Clarke, I. J. Feain, B. M. Gaensler, A. Hammond, L. Harvey-Smith, G. Heald, M. Johston-Hollitt, U. Klein, P. P. Kronberg, S. A. Mao, N. M. McClure-Griffiths, S. P. O'Sullivan, L. Pratley, T. Robishaw, S. Roy, D. H. F. M. Schnitzeler, C. Sotomayor-Beltran, J. Stevens, J. M. Stil, C. Sunstrum, A. Tanna, A. R. Taylor, C. L. Van Eck
Publication: A&A, Volume 542, A93 (2012) - arXiv:1111.6186
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"Faraday synthesis: The synergy of aperture and rotation measure synthesis"
Authors: M. R. Bell, T. A. Enßlin
Publication: A&A, Volume 540, A80 (2012), arXiv:1112.4175
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"Faraday caustics: Singularities in the Faraday spectrum and their utility as probes of magnetic field properties"
Authors: Michael R. Bell, Henrik Junklewitz, Torsten Enßlin
Publication: A&A, Volume 535, A85 (2011), arXiv:1105.2693
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"Structure and Magnetic Fields in the Precessing Jet System SS433 III. Evolution of the Intrinsic Brightness of the Jets from a Deep Multi-Epoch VLA Campaign"
Authors: Michael R. Bell, David H. Roberts, John F. C. Wardle
Publication: ApJ, Volume 736, 118 (2011), arXiv:1102.1338
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"Structure and Magnetic Fields in the Precessing Jet System SS 433. II. Intrinsic Brightness of the Jets"
Authors: David H. Roberts, John F. C. Wardle, Michael R. Bell, Matthew R. Mallory, Valerie V. Marchenko, Phoebe U. Sanderbeck
Publication: ApJ, Volume 719, 1918 (2010)
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Conference Proceedings


"The LOFAR Magnetism Key Science Project"

Authors: James Anderson, Rainer Beck, Michael Bell, Ger de Bruyn, Krzysztof Chyzy, Jochen Eislöffel, Torsten Enßlin, Andrew Fletcher, Marijke Haverkorn, George Heald, Andreas Horneffer, Aris Noutsos, Wolfgang Reich, Anna Scaife, the LOFAR collaboration
Publication: Proceedings of "Magnetic Fields in the Universe: From Laboratory and Stars to Primordial Structures", 2011 Aug. 21-27 in Zakopane/Poland, eds. M. Soida et al
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"Probing the Magnetic Fields of Nearby Spiral Galaxies at Low Frequencies with LOFAR"
Authors: D. D. Mulcahy, R. Drzazga, B. Adebahr, J. Anderson, R. Beck, M. R. Bell, K. Chyzy, R. Giessuebel, G. Heald, A. Horneffer, W. Jurusik, R. Pizzo, A. Scaife, C. Sotomayor-Beltran, B. Nikiel-Wroczynski, on behalf of the LOFAR Magnetism Key Science Project and the LOFAR collaboration
Publication: Proceedings of the conference:"Magnetic Fields in the Universe III:From Laboratory and Stars to Primordial Structures" Eds. M. Soida, K. Otmianowska-Mazur, E.M. de Gouveia Dal Pino and A. Lazarian
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"LOFAR: Recent imaging results & future prospects"
Authors: George Heald, Michael R. Bell, Andreas Horneffer, André R. Offringa, Roberto Pizzo, Sebastiaan van der Tol, Reinout J. van Weeren, Joris E. van Zwieten, James M. Anderson, Rainer Beck, Ilse van Bemmel, Laura Bîrzan, Annalisa Bonafede, John Conway, Chiara Ferrari, Francesco De Gasperin, Marijke Haverkorn, Neal Jackson, Giulia Macario, John McKean, Halime Miraghaei, Emanuela Orrù, David Rafferty, Huub Röttgering, Anna Scaife, Aleksandar Shulevski, Carlos Sotomayor, Cyril Tasse, Monica Trasatti, Olaf Wucknitz, on behalf of the LOFAR collaboration
Publication: Accepted for publication in special issue of Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy: conference proceedings of "Diffuse Relativistic Plasmas" conference, Bangalore, 1-4 March 2011
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