The LOFAR-UK station at Chilbolton has recently been completed and significantly increases the angular resolution of the International LOFAR Telescope, as well as providing a unique training site and testbed for british experience with next-generation software telescopes. The station has been funded primarily through the LOFAR-UK, the largest astronomy collaboration in Britain, as well as via the South East Physics Network (SEPNET) and STFC. In this brief paper we discuss the history and organisation of LOFAR-UK, provide a technical description of the Chilbolton site, and discuss how LOFAR stations can be augmented by the addition of extra local processing capabilities such as ARTEMIS.
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@article{arxiv.1106.4726,
title = {LOFAR-UK},
author = {Rob Fender},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.4726},
year = {2019}
}
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To be published in the proceedings of the 10th EVN Symposium (PoS)