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  • The Dark Ages Explorer (DEX): a filled-aperture ultra-long wavelength radio interferometer on the lunar far side. C.D. Brinkerink, M.J. Arts, M.J. Bentum, A.J. Boonstra, B. Cecconi, A. Fialkov, J. Garcia Gutiérrez, S. Ghosh, J. Grenouilleau, L.I. Gurvits, M. Klein-Wolt, L.V.E. Koopmans, J. Lazendic-Galloway, Z. Paragi, D. Prinsloo, R.T. Rajan, E. Rouillé, M. Ruiter, J.A. Tauber, H.K. Vedantham, A. Vecchio, C.J.C. Vertegaal, J.C.F. Zandboer, P. Zucca (2025), submitted for publication to Experimental Astronomy. https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.03418
  • The impact of lunar topography on the 21-cm power spectrum for grid-based arrays: Insights for the Dark-ages EXplorer (DEX). S Ghosh, L V E Koopmans, C Brinkerink, A R Offringa, A J Boonstra, S A Brackenhoff, E Ceccotti, J K Chege, L Y Gao, B K Gehlot, L I Gurvits, C Höfer, F G Mertens, M Mevius, S Munshi, A Saxena, J A Tauber, H Vedantham, S Yatawatta, S Zaroubi (2026), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 546, Issue 3, March 2026, stag116, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stag116
  • Building Blocks for the Dark-Ages EXplorer (DEX): Enabling a Lunar Radio Telescope and Advancing Multi-Purpose Infrastructure for Sustainable Lunar Presence. Lazendic-Galloway, J., Bentum, M. J., Johannsen, U., Brinkerink, C., Klein Wolt, M., Koopmans, L. V. E., Boonstra, A. J., Carpenter, J., Rajan, R. T., & Prinsloo, D. (2025) 23rd IAA Symposium on Building Blocks for Future Space Exploration and Development, 34–37. https://doi.org/10.52202/083093-0005
  • The dark ages explorer (DEX): design and development of a lunar far side radio interferometer for neutral hydrogen cosmology observations, (2024). Christiaan Brinkerink and  Annelies Ampe. Proc. SPIE 13092, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, 130922M. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3018919
  • Active antenna design for lunar-based detection of global 21cm-signals from the dark ages. J.C.F. Zandboer, D.S. Prinsloo, U. Johannsen and M.J. Bentum. In: 2024 18th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), pp 1–5, https://doi.org/10.23919/EuCAP60739.2024.10501339
  • Peering into the dark (ages) with low-frequency space interferometers. Léon V. E. Koopmans, Rennan Barkana, Mark Bentum, Gianni Bernardi, Albert-Jan Boonstra, Judd Bowman, Jack Burns, Xuelei Chen, Abhirup Datta, Heino Falcke, Anastasia Fialkov, Bharat Gehlot, Leonid Gurvits, Vibor Jelić, Marc Klein-Wolt, Joseph Lazio, Daan Meerburg, Garrelt Mellema, Florent Mertens, Andrei Mesinger, André Offringa, Jonathan Pritchard, Benoit Semelin, Ravi Subrahmanyan, Joseph Silk, Cathryn Trott, Harish Vedantham, Licia Verde, Saleem Zaroubi & Philippe Zarka (2021). Experimental Astronomy, 51, 1641–1676 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10686-021-09743-7
  • Radio astronomy with the European Lunar Lander: Opening up the last unexplored frequency regime. Marc Klein Wolt, Amin Aminaei, Zarka, P., Schrader, J.-R., Boonstra, A.-J., & Heino Falcke(2012). Planetary and Space Science, 74(1), 167–178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2012.09.004
  • A White paper for a low-frequency radio interferometer mission to explore the cosmological Dark Ages for the L2, Marc Klein Wolt, Garrelt Mellema, Leon Koopmans, Heino Falcke, Willem Baan, Albert‑Jan Boonstra, Leonid Gurvits, Mark Bentum, Chris Verhoeven, Joseph Lazio, Jack Burns, Jan Bergman, Philippe Zarka (2012), L3 ESA Cosmic Vision program. https://www.astro.ru.nl/wiki/_media/research/dex/dex_whitepaper.pdf

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