Acknowledging MWA Data and Tools in Publications
- Greg Sleap
- Mia Walker
Please refer to the MWA Publication Policy: https://www.mwatelescope.org/team/policies
We request that users of publicly available MWA data sourced from this service acknowledge the facility as the source of the data by citing the key MWA technical publications in any publications resulting from the use of publicly available data (plus any other MWA publications referred to in the use of those data):
The Murchison Widefield Array: The Square Kilometre Array Precursor at Low Radio Frequencies, Tingay, S.J. et al. 2013, PASA, 30, 7
If you are publishing data from the Phase II MWA (observations taken during or after October 2017) you should cite the Phase II MWA definition paper by Wayth et al. (2018) in addition to Tingay et al. (2013):
The Phase II Murchison Widefield Array: Design overview, Wayth et al. 2018, PASA, 35, 33
The following statement of acknowledgement has been constructed in accordance with the MWA membership policy, and should be used in all MWA collaboration papers:
This scientific work makes use of the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, operated by CSIRO. We acknowledge the Wajarri Yamatji people as the traditional owners of the Observatory site. Support for the operation of the MWA is provided by the Australian Government (NCRIS), under a contract to Curtin University administered by Astronomy Australia Limited. We acknowledge the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre which is supported by the Western Australian and Australian Governments.
It would also be appreciated if the MWA could be listed as a facility by using \facility{MWA} in journals utilising the AAS journal style (ApJ, AJ, PASP etc).
In addition:
- If you are using data products that result from an MWA ASVO conversion job (as opposed to raw visibility or metadata downloads), we ask that you please cite André Offringa's AOFlagger (which is used inside the Cotter software, also developed by Offringa, that the MWA ASVO utilises for conversion and averaging): The Low-Frequency Environment of the Murchison Widefield Array: Radio-Frequency Interference Analysis and Mitigation , Offringa et al., 2015, PASA, 32, e008. (bibtex)
- If you are using data products that result from an MWA ASVO conversion job that uses calibrated data, please also cite: Calibration database for the Murchison Widefield Array All-Sky Virtual Observatory, Sokolowski et. al., 2020, accepted for publication in PASA .
Finally, we request that the authors email the MWA Principal Scientist to identify the papers upon publication.