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Table 2
Sensitivities corresponding to different frequency ranges and channel widths considered in this work for the SKA, its precursors, and pathfinders. See the text for more details.
Instrument | rms, 1 h, 10 MHz | t1 = 10 h | t2 = 100 h | ||||
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(mJy/beam) | σI,Q,U (μJy/beam) | σP (mJy/beam) | σP,ϕ (μJy/beam) | σI,Q,U (μJy/beam) | σP (mJy/beam) | σP,ϕ (μJy/beam) | |
ν=110–166 MHz, dν=45 kHz | |||||||
LOFAR 2.0 | 0.41 | 54.9 | 5.9 | 77.6 | 17.3 | 1.9 | 24.5 |
SKA-LOW | 0.048 | 6.3 | 0.7 | 8.9 | 2.0 | 0.2 | 2.8 |
ν=110–166 MHz, dν=12 kHz | |||||||
SKA-LOW | 0.048 | 6.3 | 1.3 | 8.9 | 2.0 | 0.4 | 2.8 |
ν=110–350 MHz, dν=45 kHz | |||||||
SKA-LOW | 0.042 | 2.7 | 0.4 | 3.8 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 1.2 |
ν=900–1670 MHz, dν=1 MHz | |||||||
MeerKAT+ | 0.02 | 0.8 | 0.06 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.02 | 0.3 |
ν=950–1760 MHz, dν=1 MHz | |||||||
SKA-MID | 0.015 | 0.5 | 0.04 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.01 | 0.2 |
Instrument | rms, 1 h, 10 MHz | t = 15 min | |||||
mJy/beam | σI,Q,U μJy/beam | σP mJy/beam | σP,ϕ μJy/beam | ||||
ν=950–1760 MHz, dν=1 MHz | |||||||
SKA-MID | 0.015 | 2.9 | 0.2 | 4.1 |
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