BINGO: an ultra-sensitive survey of hydrogen and radio continuum emission to measure the dark universe

• Grant number: 15/19936-1
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Young Investigators Grants
• Start date: November 01, 2016
• End date: March 31, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Astronomy
• Principal Investigator: Michael William Peel
• Grantee: Michael William Peel
• Host Institution: Instituto de Física (IF). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Elcio Abdalla
• Associated scholarship(s): 16/19425-0 - BINGO: an ultra-sensitive survey of hydrogen and radio continuum emission to measure the dark universe, BP.JP

Abstract

The progression of science relies on both innovative instrumentation and meticulous interpretation of data. My research comprises both of these approaches, which will be essential to the success of the BINGO project. BINGO is a radio telescope of novel design to be built in Uruguay. BINGO's ultimate aim is to be the first instrument to measure Baryon Acoustic Oscillations using redshifted hydrogen emission, which is an important and sensitive probe of the Universe's cosmological parameters. It will be an important path-finder to identify the BAO research that can be done with the Square Kilometre Array, and to test the analysis techniques that can be used to extract the BAO signal from the data. Important by-products of the BINGO survey will include very sensitive maps of Galactic emission through several different emission mechanisms. Through this fellowship, I will work three interlinked themes. I will work on the testing of the receivers for the BINGO telescope throughout the process of constructing and commissioning the telescope in 2016-17, and simulations and data analysis of the telescope observations in 2017-19; I will also lead the analysis of the Galactic science that will be seen by BINGO as a by-product of its ultimate aim to map Baryon Acoustic Oscillations. This will enable us to better understand the synchrotron and free-free emission from our Galaxy, which will both provide interesting Galactic astrophysics, particularly in the Galactic Haze region, and will help improve the subtraction of these foregrounds from CMB data. Ultimately, the BINGO project will work towards the first detection of BAOs through the intensity mapping technique, which will provide insight into the cosmological properties of dark energy, responsible for the increasing expansion rate of our Universe. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

CARLOS A. WUENSCHE; ELCIO ABDALLA; FILIPE ABDALLA; LUCIANO BAROSI; BIN WANG; RUI AN; JOÃO A. M. BARRETOS; RICHARD BATTYE; FRANCISCO A. BRITO; IAN BROWNE; et al. Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from Integrated Neutral Gas Observations: an instrument to observe the 21cm hydrogen line in the redshift range 0.13 < z < 0.45 – status update. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, v. 93, 2021-05-26. (19/05687-0, 14/07885-0, 15/19936-1)

JEW, LUKE; TAYLOR, ANGELA C.; JONES, MICHAEL E.; BARR, A.; CHIANG, H. C.; DICKINSON, C.; GRUMITT, R. D. P.; HARPER, S. E.; HEILGENDORFF, H. M.; HILL-VALLER, J.; et al. The C-Band All-Sky Survey (C-BASS): Simulated parametric fitting in single pixels in total intensity and polarization. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 490, n. 2, p. 2958-2975, DEC 2019. (15/19936-1)

LICCARDO, VINCENZO; DE MERICIA, EDUARDO J.; WUENSCHE, CARLOS A.; ABDALLA, ELCIO; ABDALLA, FILIPE B.; BAROSI, LUCIANO; BRITO, FRANCISCO A.; QUEIROZ, AMILCAR; VILLELA, THYRSO; PEEL, MICHAEL W.; et al. The BINGO project IV. Simulations for mission performance assessment and preliminary component separation steps. Astronomy & Astrophysics, v. 664, p. 16-pg., 2022-08-03. (14/07885-0, 19/05687-0, 17/21570-0, 15/19936-1)

GRUMITT, R. D. P.; TAYLOR, ANGELA C.; JEW, LUKE; JONES, MICHAEL E.; DICKINSON, C.; BARR, A.; CEPEDA-ARROITA, R.; CHIANG, H. C.; HARPER, S. E.; HEILGENDORFF, H. M.; et al. The C-Band All-Sky Survey: total intensity point-source detection over the northern sky. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 496, n. 2, p. 1941-1958, AUG 2020. (15/19936-1)

WUENSCHE, C. A.; REITANO, L.; PEEL, M. W.; BROWNE, I. W. A.; MAFFEI, B.; ABDALLA, E.; RADCLIFFE, C.; ABDALLA, F.; BAROSI, L.; LICCARDO, V; et al. Baryon acoustic oscillations from Integrated Neutral Gas Observations: Broadband corrugated horn construction and testing. EXPERIMENTAL ASTRONOMY, v. 50, n. 1, JUL 2020. (18/02026-0, 14/07885-0, 15/19936-1)

WUENSCHE, CARLOS A.; VILLELA, THYRSO; ABDALLA, ELCIO; LICCARDO, VINCENZO; VIEIRA, FREDERICO; BROWNE, IAN; PEEL, MICHAEL W.; RADCLIFFE, CHRISTOPHER; ABDALLA, FILIPE B.; MARINS, ALESSANDRO; et al. The BINGO project II. Instrument description. Astronomy & Astrophysics, v. 664, p. 12-pg., 2022-08-03. (19/05687-0, 14/07885-0, 19/06040-0, 18/02026-0, 15/19936-1, 17/21570-0)

WUENSCHE, CARLOS A.; ABDALLA, ELCIO; ABDALLA, FILIPE; BAROSI, LUCIANO; WANG, BIN; AN, RUI; BARRETOS, JOAO A. M.; BATTYE, RICHARD; BRITO, FRANCISCO A.; BROWNE, IAN; et al. Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from Integrated Neutral Gas Observations: an instrument to observe the 21cm hydrogen line in the redshift range 0.13 < z < 0.45-status update. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, v. 93, n. 1, 2021. (14/07885-0, 15/19936-1, 19/05687-0)

PEEL, M. W.; WUENSCHE, C. A.; ABDALLA, E.; ANTON, S.; BAROSI, L.; BROWNE, I. W. A.; CALDAS, M.; DICKINSON, C.; FORNAZIER, K. S. F.; MONSTEIN, C.; et al. Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from Integrated Neutral Gas Observations: Radio Frequency Interference Measurements and Telescope Site Selection. JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTATION, v. 8, n. 1, p. 14-pg., 2019-03-01. (16/19425-0, 15/19936-1, 14/07885-0, 17/21570-0)

ABDALLA, ELCIO; FERREIRA, ELISA G. M.; LANDIM, RICARDO G.; COSTA, ANDRE A.; FORNAZIER, KARIN S. F.; ABDALLA, FILIPE B.; BAROSI, LUCIANO; BRITO, FRANCISCO A.; QUEIROZ, AMILCAR R.; VILLELA, THYRSO; et al. The BINGO project: I. Baryon acoustic oscillations from integrated neutral gas observations. Astronomy & Astrophysics, v. 664, p. 23-pg., 2022-08-03. (18/02026-0, 15/19936-1, 19/05687-0, 17/21570-0, 19/06040-0, 14/07885-0)

DICKINSON, CLIVE; ALI-HAIMOUD, Y.; BARR, A.; BATTISTELLI, E. S.; BELL, A.; BERNSTEIN, L.; CASASSUS, S.; CLEARY, K.; DRAINE, B. T.; GENOVA-SANTOS, R.; et al. The State-of-Play of Anomalous Microwave Emission (AME) research. New Astronomy Reviews, v. 80, p. 1-28, FEB 2018. (15/19936-1)

TIBBS, C. T.; ISRAEL, F. P.; LAUREIJS, R. J.; TAUBER, J. A.; PARTRIDGE, B.; PEEL, M. W.; FAUVET, L.. Planck observations of M33. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 477, n. 4, p. 4968-4980, JUL 2018. (15/19936-1)

FORNAZIER, KARIN S. F.; ABDALLA, FILIPE B.; REMAZEILLES, MATHIEU; VIEIRA, JORDANY; MARINS, ALESSANDRO; ABDALLA, ELCIO; SANTOS, LARISSA; DELABROUILLE, JACQUES; MERICIA, EDUARDO; LANDIM, RICARDO G.; et al. The BINGO project V. Further steps in component separation and bispectrum analysis. Astronomy & Astrophysics, v. 664, p. 19-pg., 2022-08-03. (14/07885-0, 19/05687-0, 19/06040-0, 15/19936-1, 18/02026-0, 17/21570-0)

PEEL, M. W.; WUENSCHE, C. A.; ABDALLA, E.; ANTON, S.; BAROSI, L.; BROWNE, I. W. A.; CALDAS, M.; DICKINSON, C.; FORNAZIER, K. S. F.; MONSTEIN, C.; et al. Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from Integrated Neutral Gas Observations: Radio Frequency Interference Measurements and Telescope Site Selection. JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTATION, v. 8, n. 1, SI, MAR 2019. (16/19425-0, 14/07885-0, 17/21570-0, 15/19936-1)

DICKINSON, C.; BARR, A.; CHIANG, H. C.; COPLEY, C.; GRUMITT, R. D. P.; HARPER, S. E.; HEILGENDORFF, H. M.; JEW, L. R. P.; JONAS, J. L.; JONES, MICHAEL E.; et al. The C-Band All-Sky Survey (C-BASS): constraining diffuse Galactic radio emission in the North Celestial Pole region. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 485, n. 2, p. 2844-2860, MAY 2019. (15/19936-1)

JONES, MICHAEL E.; TAYLOR, ANGELA C.; AICH, MOUMITA; COPLEY, C. J.; CHIANG, H. CYNTHIA; DAVIS, R. J.; DICKINSON, C.; GRUMITT, R. D. P.; HAFEZ, YASER; HEILGENDORFF, HEIKO M.; et al. The C-Band All-Sky Survey (C-BASS): design and capabilities. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 480, n. 3, p. 3224-3242, NOV 2018. (16/19425-0, 15/19936-1)

ABDALLA, FILIPE B.; MARINS, ALESSANDRO; MOTTA, PABLO; ABDALLA, ELCIO; RIBEIRO, RAFAEL M.; WUENSCHE, CARLOS A.; DELABROUILLE, JACQUES; FORNAZIER, KARIN S. F.; LICCARDO, VINCENZO; MAFFEI, BRUNO; et al. The BINGO Project III. Optical design and optimization of the focal plane. Astronomy & Astrophysics, v. 664, p. 22-pg., 2022-08-03. (19/05687-0, 14/07885-0, 18/02026-0, 15/19936-1, 17/21570-0)