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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…

LOFAR, the Low-Frequency Array, is a powerful new radio telescope operating between 10 and 240 MHz. LOFAR allows detailed sensitive high-resolution studies of the low-frequency radio sky. At the same time LOFAR also provides excellent short…

The LOw Frequency ARray - LOFAR - is a new radio interferometer designed with emphasis on flexible digital hardware instead of mechanical solutions. The array elements, so-called stations, are located in the Netherlands and in neighbouring…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Maciej Serylak , Aris Karastergiou , Chris Williams , Wesley Armour , Michael Giles , the LOFAR Pulsar Working Group

Air showers from cosmic rays emit short, intense radio pulses. LOFAR is a new radio telescope, that is being built in the Netherlands and Europe. Designed primarily as a radio interferometer, the core of LOFAR will have a high density of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 A. Horneffer , L. Bähren , S. Buitink , H. Falcke , J. R. Hörandel , J. Kuijpers , S. Lafebre , A. Nigl , O. Scholten , K. Singh

LOFAR is a groundbreaking low-frequency radio telescope currently nearing completion across northern europe. As a software telescope with no moving parts, enormous fields of view and multi-beaming, it has fantastic potential for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Rob Fender

The Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) will operate between 10 and 250 MHz, and will observe the low frequency Universe to an unprecedented sensitivity and angular resolution. The construction and commissioning of LOFAR is well underway, with over…

With LOFAR beginning operation in 2008 there is huge potential for studying pulsars with high signal to noise at low frequencies. We present results of observations made with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope to revisit, with modern…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 B. W. Stappers , R. Karuppusamy , J. W. T. Hessels

Pulsars are arguably the only astrophysical sources whose emission spans the entire electromagnetic spectrum, from decameter radio wavelengths to TeV energies. The LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) offers the unique possibility to study pulsars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Vladislav Kondratiev , the LOFAR Pulsar Working Group

LOFAR offers the unique capability of observing pulsars across the 10-240 MHz frequency range with a fractional bandwidth of roughly 50%. This spectral range is well-suited for studying the frequency evolution of pulse profile morphology…

Aims: This paper discusses the spectral occupancy for performing radio astronomy with the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR), with a focus on imaging observations. Methods: We have analysed the radio-frequency interference (RFI) situation in two…

We have conducted two pilot surveys for radio pulsars and fast transients with the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) around 140 MHz and here report on the first low-frequency fast-radio burst limit and the discovery of two new pulsars. The first…

The low frequency array (LOFAR), is the first radio telescope designed with the capability to measure radio emission from cosmic-ray induced air showers in parallel with interferometric observations. In the first $\sim 2\,\mathrm{years}$ of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-27 P. Schellart , A. Nelles , S. Buitink , A. Corstanje , J. E. Enriquez , H. Falcke , W. Frieswijk , J. R. Hörandel , A. Horneffer , C. W. James , M. Krause , M. Mevius , O. Scholten , S. ter Veen , S. Thoudam , M. van den Akker , A. Alexov , J. Anderson , I. M. Avruch , L. Bähren , R. Beck , M. E. Bell , P. Bennema , M. J. Bentum , G. Bernardi , P. Best , J. Bregman , F. Breitling , M. Brentjens , J. Broderick , M. Brüggen , B. Ciardi , A. Coolen , F. de Gasperin , E. de Geus , A. de Jong , M. de Vos , S. Duscha , J. Eislöffel , R. A. Fallows , C. Ferrari , M. A. Garrett , J. Grießmeier , T. Grit , J. P. Hamaker , T. E. Hassall , G. Heald , J. W. T. Hessels , M. Hoeft , H. A. Holties , M. Iacobelli , E. Juette , A. Karastergiou , W. Klijn , J. Kohler , V. I. Kondratiev , M. Kramer , M. Kuniyoshi , G. Kuper , P. Maat , G. Macario , G. Mann , S. Markoff , D. McKay-Bukowski , J. P. McKean , J. C. A. Miller-Jones , J. D. Mol , D. D. Mulcahy , H. Munk , R. Nijboer , M. J. Norden , E. Orru , R. Overeem , H. Paas , M. Pandey-Pommier , R. Pizzo , A. G. Polatidis , A. Renting , J. W. Romein , H. Röttgering , A. Schoenmakers , D. Schwarz , J. Sluman , O. Smirnov , C. Sobey , B. W. Stappers , M. Steinmetz , J. Swinbank , Y. Tang , C. Tasse , C. Toribio , J. van Leeuwen , R. van Nieuwpoort , R. J. van Weeren , N. Vermaas , R. Vermeulen , C. Vocks , C. Vogt , R. A. M. J. Wijers , S. J. Wijnholds , M. W. Wise , O. Wucknitz , S. Yatawatta , P. Zarka , A. Zensus

The Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) is the only existing radio interferometer able to observe at ultra-low frequencies (<100 MHz) with high resolution (<15") and high sensitivity (<1 mJy/beam). To exploit these capabilities, the LOFAR Surveys…

LOFAR is a new form of radio telescope which can detect radio emission from air showers induced by very high-energy cosmic rays. It can also look for radio emission from particle cascades on the Moon induced by ultra high-energy cosmic rays…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 S. Thoudam , G. v. Aar , M. v. d. Akker , L. Bähren , A. Corstanje , H. Falcke , J. R. Hörandel , A. Horneffer , C. James , M. Mevius , O. Scholten , K. Singh , S. ter Veen

The Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope is an international aperture synthesis radio telescope used to study the Universe at low frequencies. One of the goals of the LOFAR telescope is to conduct deep wide-field surveys. Here we…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-11 A. P. Mechev , J. B. R. Oonk , A. Danezi , T. W. Shimwell , C. Schrijvers , H. T. Intema , A. Plaat , H. J. A. Röttgering

Pulsar timing is a foundational part of pulsar research to triage the most interesting systems and to characterise properties (rotational or otherwise) of the population of these extreme objects. Due to the efficiency of a number of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-25 D. J. McKenna , E. F. Keane , P. T. Gallagher , J. McCauley

The Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) is an ideal instrument to conduct deep extragalactic surveys. It has a large field of view and is sensitive to large scale and compact emission. It is, however, very challenging to synthesize thermal noise…

We present the results from the low-frequency (40--78 MHz) extension of the first LOFAR pulsar census of non-recycled pulsars. We have used the Low-Band Antennas of the LOFAR core stations to observe 87 pulsars out of 158 that have been…

At very low frequencies, the new pan-European radio telescope LOFAR is opening the last unexplored window of the electromagnetic spectrum for astrophysical studies. The revolutionary APERTIF phased arrays that are about to be installed on…

LOFAR is a new and sensitive radio interferometer that can be used for dynamic high-resolution imaging spectroscopy at low radio frequencies from 10 to 90 and 110 to 250 MHz. Here we describe its usage for observations of the Sun and in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-22 Frank Breitling , Gottfried Mann , Christian Vocks , Matthias Steinmetz , Klaus G. Strassmeier