{"id":31,"date":"2025-03-07T14:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T14:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alott.astro.ru.nl\/?page_id=31"},"modified":"2026-02-18T13:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T13:46:15","slug":"our-plans","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alott.astro.ru.nl\/index.php\/our-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research Papers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The Dark Ages Explorer (DEX): a filled-aperture ultra-long wavelength radio interferometer on the lunar far side<\/strong>. C.D. Brinkerink, M.J. Arts, M.J. Bentum, A.J. Boonstra, B. Cecconi, A. Fialkov, J. Garcia Guti\u00e9rrez, 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. Rouill\u00e9, 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. <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2504.03418\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2504.03418<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The impact of lunar topography on the 21-cm power spectrum for grid-based arrays: Insights for the Dark-ages EXplorer (DEX)<\/strong>. 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 H\u00f6fer, 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,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/mnras\/stag116\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/mnras\/stag116<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Building Blocks for the Dark-Ages EXplorer (DEX): Enabling a Lunar Radio Telescope and Advancing Multi-Purpose Infrastructure for Sustainable Lunar Presence<\/strong>. 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., &amp; Prinsloo, D.&nbsp;(2025) 23rd IAA Symposium on Building Blocks for Future Space Exploration and Development, 34\u201337. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.52202\/083093-0005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.52202\/083093-0005<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The dark ages explorer (DEX): design and development of a lunar far side radio interferometer for neutral hydrogen cosmology observations<\/strong>, (2024). Christiaan Brinkerink\u00a0and\u00a0\u00a0Annelies Ampe. Proc. SPIE 13092, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, 130922M.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1117\/12.3018919\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1117\/12.3018919<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>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\u20135,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.23919\/EuCAP60739.2024.10501339\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.23919\/EuCAP60739.2024.10501339<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Peering into the dark (ages) with low-frequency space interferometers<\/strong>. L\u00e9on 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 Jeli\u0107, Marc Klein-Wolt, Joseph Lazio, Daan Meerburg, Garrelt Mellema, Florent Mertens, Andrei Mesinger, Andr\u00e9 Offringa, Jonathan Pritchard, Benoit Semelin, Ravi Subrahmanyan, Joseph Silk, Cathryn Trott, Harish Vedantham, Licia Verde, Saleem Zaroubi &amp; Philippe Zarka (2021).&nbsp;Experimental Astronomy,&nbsp;51, 1641\u20131676 (2021). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10686-021-09743-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10686-021-09743-7<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Radio astronomy with the European Lunar Lander: Opening up the last unexplored frequency regime<\/strong>.&nbsp;Marc Klein Wolt, Amin Aminaei, Zarka, P., Schrader, J.-R., Boonstra, A.-J., &amp; Heino Falcke(2012)<em>. <\/em>Planetary and Space Science, <em>74<\/em>(1), 167\u2013178. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.pss.2012.09.004\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.pss.2012.09.004<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>A<\/strong> <strong>White paper for a low-frequency radio interferometer mission to explore the cosmological Dark Ages for the L2<\/strong>, Marc Klein Wolt, Garrelt Mellema, Leon Koopmans, Heino Falcke, Willem Baan, Albert\u2011Jan Boonstra, Leonid Gurvits, Mark Bentum, Chris Verhoeven, Joseph Lazio, Jack Burns, Jan Bergman, Philippe Zarka (2012), <em>L3 ESA Cosmic Vision program<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astro.ru.nl\/wiki\/_media\/research\/dex\/dex_whitepaper.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.astro.ru.nl\/wiki\/_media\/research\/dex\/dex_whitepaper.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Media coverage <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A Lunar Telescope that Could Explore the Cosmic Dark Ages (may 2025), Universe Today <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/articles\/a-lunar-telescope-that-could-explore-the-cosmic-dark-ages\">https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/articles\/a-lunar-telescope-that-could-explore-the-cosmic-dark-ages<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A lunar telescope that could explore the cosmic dark ages (May 2025), Phys.org, <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-05-lunar-telescope-explore-cosmic-dark.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-05-lunar-telescope-explore-cosmic-dark.html<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research Papers Media coverage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-31","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alott.astro.ru.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alott.astro.ru.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alott.astro.ru.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alott.astro.ru.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alott.astro.ru.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/alott.astro.ru.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/alott.astro.ru.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alott.astro.ru.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}