Early Pulsar Observations with LOFAR
Abstract
This contribution to the proceedings of "A New Golden Age for Radio Astronomy" is simply intended to give some of the highlights from pulsar observations with LOFAR at the time of its official opening: June 12th, 2010. These observations illustrate that, though LOFAR is still under construction and astronomical commissioning, it is already starting to deliver on its promise to revolutionize radio astronomy in the low-frequency regime. These observations also demonstrate how LOFAR has many "next-generation" capabilities, such as wide-field multi-beaming, that will be vital to open a new Golden Age in radio astronomy through the Square Kilometer Array and its precursors.
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@article{arxiv.1009.1758,
title = {Early Pulsar Observations with LOFAR},
author = {Jason Hessels and Ben Stappers and Anastasia Alexov and Thijs Coenen and Tom Hassall and Aris Karastergiou and Vlad Kondratiev and Michael Kramer and Joeri van Leeuwen and Jan David Mol and Aris Noutsos and Patrick Weltevrede and the LOFAR Collaboration},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.1758},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
11 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in proceedings of "ISKAF2010 Science Meeting", PoS(ISKAF2010)025