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We present the astrometric identification of 80 known radio pulsars as unresolved continuum sources detected at 144 MHz in the second data release of the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS DR2), which covers 27% of the Northern hemisphere.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-18 G. A. C. Rijkers , C. G. Bassa , J. R. Callingham , T. Shimwell

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…

Radio pulses emitted in the atmosphere during the air shower development of high-energy primary cosmic rays were measured during the late 1960ies in the frequency range from 2 MHz to 520 MHz. Mainly due to difficulties with radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 LOPES Collaboration , A. Horneffer

The Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) is a low-frequency radio continuum survey of the Northern sky at an unparalleled resolution and sensitivity. In order to fully exploit this huge dataset and those produced by the…

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

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 the only radio telescope that is presently capable of high-sensitivity, high-resolution (<1 mJy/b and <15") observations at ultra-low frequencies (<100 MHz). To utilise these capabilities, the LOFAR Surveys Key Science Project is…

The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) is an ongoing sensitive, high-resolution 120-168 MHz survey of the Northern sky with diverse and ambitious science goals. Many of the scientific objectives of LoTSS rely upon, or are enhanced by, the…

One of the science drivers of the new Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) is large-area surveys of the low-frequency radio sky. Realizing this goal requires automated processing of the interferometric data, such that fully calibrated images are…

The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) is an ongoing sensitive, high-resolution 120-168MHz survey of the entire northern sky for which observations are now 20% complete. We present our first full-quality public data release. For this data…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-21 T. W. Shimwell , C. Tasse , M. J. Hardcastle , A. P. Mechev , W. L. Williams , P. N. Best , H. J. A. Röttgering , J. R. Callingham , T. J. Dijkema , F. de Gasperin , D. N. Hoang , B. Hugo , M. Mirmont , J. B. R. Oonk , I. Prandoni , D. Rafferty , J. Sabater , O. Smirnov , R. J. van Weeren , G. J. White , M. Atemkeng , L. Bester , E. Bonnassieux , M. Brüggen , G. Brunetti , K. T. Chyży , R. Cochrane , J. E. Conway , J. H. Croston , A. Danezi , K. Duncan , M. Haverkorn , G. H. Heald , M. Iacobelli , H. T. Intema , N. Jackson , M. Jamrozy , M. J. Jarvis , R. Lakhoo , M. Mevius , G. K. Miley , L. Morabito , R. Morganti , D. Nisbet , E. Orrú , S. Perkins , R. F. Pizzo , C. Schrijvers , D. J. B. Smith , R. Vermeulen , M. W. Wise , L. Alegre , D. J. Bacon , I. M. van Bemmel , R. J. Beswick , A. Bonafede , A. Botteon , S. Bourke , M. Brienza , G. Calistro Rivera , R. Cassano , A. O. Clarke , C. J. Conselice , R. J. Dettmar , A. Drabent , C. Dumba , K. L. Emig , T. A. Enßlin , C. Ferrari , M. A. Garrett , R. T. Génova-Santos , A. Goyal , G. Gürkan , C. Hale , J. J. Harwood , V. Heesen , M. Hoeft , C. Horellou , C. Jackson , G. Kokotanekov , R. Kondapally , M. Kunert-Bajraszewska , V. Mahatma , E. K. Mahony , S. Mandal , J. P. McKean , A. Merloni , B. Mingo , A. Miskolczi , S. Mooney , B. Nikiel-Wroczyński , S. P. O'Sullivan , J. Quinn , W. Reich , C. Roskowiński , A. Rowlinson , F. Savini , A. Saxena , D. J. Schwarz , A. Shulevski , S. S. Sridhar , H. R. Stacey , S. Urquhart , M. H. D. van der Wiel , E. Varenius , B. Webster , A. Wilber

The LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) is a next-generation radio telescope which uses thousands of stationary dipoles to observe celestial phenomena. These dipoles are grouped in various 'stations' which are centred on the Netherlands with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Richard A. Fallows , Ashish Asgekar , Mario M Bisi , Andrew R. Breen , Sander ter Veen

LOFAR (the Low Frequency Array), a distributed digital radio telescope with stations in the Netherlands, Germany, France, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, is designed to enable full-sky monitoring of transient radio sources. These…

LOFAR is a leading aperture synthesis telescope operated in the Netherlands with stations across Europe. The LOFAR Two-meter Sky Survey (LoTSS) will produce more than 3000 14 TB data sets, mapping the entire northern sky at low frequencies.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-28 A. P. Mechev , T. W. Shimwell , A. Plaat , H. Intema , A. L. Varbanescu , H. J. A Rottgering

The Parkes multibeam pulsar survey is a high-frequency, fast-sampled survey of the Galactic Plane, expected to discover at least 500 new pulsars. To date, over 200 pulsars have been found, including several young pulsars and at least one…

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

Current and future astronomical survey facilities provide a remarkably rich opportunity for transient astronomy, combining unprecedented fields of view with high sensitivity and the ability to access previously unexplored wavelength…

Timing observations are crucial for determining the basic parameters of newly discovered pulsars. Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) with the L-band 19-beam receiver covering the frequency range of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-12 W. Q. Su , J. L. Han , P. F. Wang , J. P. Yuan , Chen Wang , D. J. Zhou , Tao Wang , Yi Yan , W. C. Jing , Z. L. Yang , N. N. Cai , Xue Chen , Jun Xu , Lang Xie , H. G. Wang , R. X. Xu , X. P. You

We report the detection of 48 millisecond pulsars (MSPs) out of 75 observed thus far using the LOFAR in the frequency range 110-188 MHz. We have also detected three MSPs out of nine observed in the frequency range 38-77 MHz. This is the…

The Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) is a sensitive, high-resolution 120-168 MHz survey split across multiple tiers over the northern sky. The first LoTSS Deep Fields data release consists of deep radio continuum…

The on-going PALFA survey is searching the Galactic plane (|b| < 5 deg., 32 < l < 77 deg. and 168 < l < 214 deg.) for radio pulsars at 1.4 GHz using ALFA, the 7-beam receiver installed at the Arecibo Observatory. By the end of August 2012,…