Primary Publications by Topic

An up-to-date list of my publications is on the arXiv and on Google Scholar. They are also listed in my CV.

Interferometric Calibration, Map Making, and Analysis for 21 cm Cosmology

• N. Orosz, J.S. Dillon, A. Ewall-Wice, A.R. Parsons, N. Thyagarajan. Mitigating the Effects of Antenna-to-Antenna Variation on Redundant-Baseline Calibration for 21 cm Cosmology. Submitted to MNRAS (2018)

• Dillon, J.S., S.A. Kohn, A.R. Parsons, J.E. Aguirre, Z.S. Ali, G. Bernardi, N.S. Kern, W. Li, A. Liu, C.D. Nunhokee, J.C. Pober. Polarized Redundant-Baseline Calibration for 21 cm Cosmology Without Adding Spectral Structure. MNRAS 477, 4 (2018).

• Ewall-Wice, A., J.S. Dillon, A. Liu, J.N. Hewitt. The Impact of Modeling Errors on Interferometer Calibration for 21 cm Power Spectra. MNRAS 470, 2 (2017). 

• Dillon, J.S., A.R. Parsons. Redundant Array Configurations for 21 cm Cosmology. ApJ. 826, 2 (2016) 

• Neben, A.R., J. Hewitt, R.F. Bradley, J.S. Dillon, et al. Beamforming Errors in Murchison Widefield Array Phased Array Antennas and their effects on Epoch of Reionization Science. ApJ. 820, 1 (2016) 

• Dillon, J.S., M. Tegmark, A. Liu, A. Ewall-Wice, J.N. Hewitt, M. Morales, A.R. Neben, A.R. Parsons, H. Zheng. Mapmaking for Precision 21 cm Cosmology. Phys. Rev. D 91, 023002 (2015) 

21 cm Power Spectrum Analyses and Methods

• Jacobs, D.C., B.J. Hazelton, C.M. Trott, J.S. Dillon, et al. The Murchison Widefield Array 21 cm Power Spectrum Analysis Methodology. ApJ. 825, 2 (2016) 

• Ewall-Wice, A., J.S. Dillon, J.N. Hewitt, et al. First Limits on the 21cm Power Spectrum during the Epoch of X-ray heating. MNRAS 460, 4 (2016) 

• Dillon, J.S., A.R. Neben, J.N. Hewitt, M. Tegmark, et al. Empirical Covariance Modeling for 21cm Power Spectrum Estimation: A Method Demonstration and New Limits from Early Murchison Widefield Array 128-Tile Data. Phys. Rev. D 91, 123011 (2015) 

• Dillon, J.S., A. Liu, C.L. Williams, J.N. Hewitt, M. Tegmark, et al. Overcoming real- world obstacles in 21 cm power spectrum estimation: A demonstration and results from early Murchison Widefield Array data. Phys. Rev. D 89, 023002 (2014) 

• Dillon, J.S., A. Liu, M. Tegmark. A fast method for power spectrum and foreground analysis for 21 cm cosmology. Phys. Rev. D 87, 043005 (2013) 

21 cm Science Forecasts

• Ewall-Wice, A., J. Hewitt, A. Mesinger, J.S. Dillon, A. Liu, J. Pober. Constraining High Redshift X-ray Sources with Next Generation 21 cm Power Spectrum Measurements. MNRAS 458, 3 (2016)

• Ewall-Wice, A., J.S. Dillon, A. Mesinger, and J. Hewitt. Detecting the 21 cm Forest in the 21 cm Power Spectrum. MNRAS 441, 3 (2014)

• Pober, J.C., A. Liu, J.S. Dillon, et al. What Next-Generation 21 cm Power Spectrum Measurements Can Teach Us About the Epoch of Reionization. ApJ. 782, 66 (2014)

MITEoR Instrument and Analysis

• Zheng, H., M. Tegmark, J.S. Dillon, et al. Brute-Force Mapmaking with Compact Interferometers: A MITEoR Northern Sky Map from 128 MHz to 175 MHz. Submitted to MNRAS (2016) 

• Zheng, H., M. Tegmark, V. Buza, J.S. Dillon, et al. MITEoR: A Scalable Interferometer for Precision 21 cm Cosmology. MNRAS 445, 2 (2014) 

• Zheng, H., M. Tegmark, V. Buza, J.S. Dillon, et al. Mapping our Universe in 3D with MITEoR. 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Phased Array Systems & Technology. (2013) 

Radio Foreground Science

• Zheng, H., M. Tegmark, J.S. Dillon, et al. An Improved Model of Diffuse Galactic Radio Emission from 10 MHz to 5 THz. Submitted to MNRAS (2016) 

Ph.D. Thesis

• Dillon, J.S. It’s Always Darkest Before the Cosmic Dawn: Early Results from Novel Tools and Telescopes for 21 cm Cosmology. MIT Ph.D. Thesis. (2015) 

Collaboration Papers:

HERA Collaboration Papers

• Kerrigan, J., P. La Plante, S. Kohn, et al. (including J.S. Dillon). Optimizing Sparse RFI Prediction using Deep Learning. Submitted to MNRAS (2019)

• Kohn, S.A., P.M. Chichura, A.S. Igarashi, et al. (including J.S. Dillon). Polarized Foreground Power Spectra from the HERA-19 Commissioning Array. Submitted to ApJ. (2018)

• Carilli, C.L., B. Nikolic, N. Thyagarajan, et al. (including J.S. Dillon). HI 21cm Cosmology and the Bi-spectrum: Closure Diagnostics in Massively Redundant Interferometric Arrays. Radio Science 53, 6 (2018)

• Patra, N., A.R. Parsons, D.R. DeBoer, et al. (including J.S. Dillon). The Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array Dish III: Measuring Chromaticity of Prototype Element with Reflectometry. Experimental Astronomy, 45, 2 (2018)

• 14. Nunhokee, C.D., G. Bernardi, S.A. Kohn, et al. (including J.S. Dillon). Constraining Polarized Foregrounds for EOR Experiments II: Polarization Leakage Simulations
  in the Avoidance Scheme. ApJ. 848, 1 (2017)

• DeBoer, D., A.R. Parsons, et al. (including J.S. Dillon). Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA). PASP 129, 974 (2017) 

• Ewall-Wice, A., R.F. Bradley, D. DeBoer, et al. (including J.S. Dillon). The Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array Dish II: Characterization of Spectral Structure with Electromagnetic Simulations and its science Implications. ApJ. in press (2016) 

• Neben, A.R., R.F. Bradley, J.N. Hewitt, et al. (including J.S. Dillon). The Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array Dish I: Beam Pattern Measurements and Science Implications. ApJ. 826, 2 (2016) 

MWA Collaboration Papers

• Li, W., J.C. Pober, B.J. Hazelton, et al. (including J.S. Dillon). Comparing Redundant and Sky Model Based Interferometric Calibration: A First Look with Phase II of the MWA. ApJ. 863, 2 (2018)

• Kapinska, A.D., L. Staveley-Smith, R. Crocker, et al. (including J.S. Dillon). Spectral energy distribution and radio halo of NGC 253 at low radio frequencies. ApJ. 838, 1 (2017)

• Paul, S., S.K. Sethi, M.F. Morales, et al. (including J.S. Dillon). Delay Spectrum with Phase-Tracking Arrays: Extracting the HI power spectrum from the Epoch of Reionization. ApJ. 833, 1 (2016)

• Beardsley, A.P., B.J. Hazelton, I.S. Sullivan, et al. (including J.S. Dillon). First Season MWA EoR Power Spectrum Results at Redshift 7. ApJ. 833, 1 (2016) 

• Lenc, E., B.M. Gaensler, X.H. Sun, et al. (including J.S. Dillon). Low frequency observations of linearly polarized structures in the interstellar medium near the south Galactic pole. ApJ. 830, 1 (2016) 

• Carroll, P.A., J. Line, M.F. Morales, et al. (including J.S. Dillon). A High Reliability Survey of Discrete Epoch of Reionization Foreground Sources in the MWA EoR0 Field. MNRAS 461, 4 (2016) 

• Offringa, A.R., C.M. Trott, N. Hurley-Walker, et al. (including J.S. Dillon). Parametrizing Epoch of Reionization foregrounds: a deep survey of low-frequency point-source spectra with the Murchison Widefield Array. MNRAS 458, 1 (2016) 

• Pober, J.C., B.J. Hazelton, A.P. Beardsley, et al. (including J.S. Dillon). The Importance of Wide-field Foreground Removal for 21 cm Cosmology: A Demonstration With Early MWA Epoch of Reionization Observations. ApJ. 819, 1 (2016) 

• Trott, C.M., B. Pindor, P. Procopio, et al. (including J.S. Dillon). CHIPS: The Cosmological HI Power Spectrum Estimator. ApJ. 818, 2 (2016) 

• Thyagarajan, N., D.C. Jacobs, J.D. Bowman, et al. (including J.S. Dillon). Confirmation of Wide-Field Signatures in Redshifted 21 cm Power Spectra. ApJ. Letters 807, L28 (2015) 

• Thyagarajan, N., D.C. Jacobs, J.D. Bowman, et al. (including J.S. Dillon). Foregrounds in Wide-Field Redshifted 21 cm Power Spectra. ApJ. 804, 1 (2015) 

• Offringa, A.R., R.B. Wayth, N. Hurley-Walker, D.L. Kaplan, et al. (including J.S. Dillon). The low-frequency environment of the Murchison Widefield Array: radio- frequency interference analysis and mitigation. PASA 32, e008 (2015) 

PAPER Collaboration Papers

• Cheng, C., A.R. Parsons, M. Kolopanis, et al. (including J.S. Dillon). Characterizing Signal Loss in the 21 cm Reionization Power Spectrum: A Revised Study of PAPER-64. ApJ. in press.