The LOFAR Transients Key Project
Abstract
LOFAR, the Low Frequency Array, is a new radio telescope under construction in the Netherlands, designed to operate between 30 and 240 MHz. The Transients Key Project is one of the four Key Science Projects which comprise the core LOFAR science case. The remit of the Transients Key Project is to study variable and transient radio sources detected by LOFAR, on timescales from milliseconds to years. This will be achieved via both regular snapshot monitoring of historical and newly-discovered radio variables and, most radically, the development of a `Radio Sky Monitor' which will survey a large fraction of the northern sky on a daily basis.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0611298,
title = {The LOFAR Transients Key Project},
author = {Rob Fender and Robert Braun and Ben Stappers and Ralph Wijers and Michael Wise and Thijs Coenen and Heino Falcke and Jean-Mathias Griessmeier and Michiel van Haarlem and Peter Jonker and Casey Law and Sera Markoff and Joseph Masters and James Miller-Jones and Rachel Osten and Bart Scheers and Hanno Spreeuw and John Swinbank and Corina Vogt and Rudy Wijnands and Philippe Zarka},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0611298},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Accepted for publication in the proceedings of VI Microquasar Workshop: Microquasars and Beyond, 18-22 September 2006, Como (Italy), ed: T. Belloni (2006)