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The new generation of high-resolution broad-band radio telescopes, like the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), produces, depending on the level of compression, between 1 to 10 TB of data per hour after correlation. Such a large amount of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-12 A. Drabent , M. Hoeft , A. P. Mechev , J. B. R. Oonk , T. W. Shimwell , F. Sweijen , A. Danezi , C. Schrijvers , C. Manzano , O. Tsigenov , R. -J. Dettmar , M. Brüggen , D. J. Schwarz

Radio astronomy is entering a new era with new and future radio observatories such as the Low Frequency Array and the Square Kilometer Array. We describe in detail an automated flagging pipeline and evaluate its performance. With only a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-16 A. R. Offringa , A. G. de Bruyn , S. Zaroubi , M. Biehl

Modern radio interferometers such as the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) are capable of producing data at hundreds of gigabits to terabits per second. This high data rate makes the analysis of radio data cumbersome and computationally…

Recent work has successfully achieved sub-arcsecond wide-field imaging with high-band observations from the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR). However, the scalability of this work remains limited due to the need for manual intervention, poor…

We present LOFAR High-Band Array (HBA) observations of the Herschel-ATLAS North Galactic Pole survey area. The survey we have carried out, consisting of four pointings covering around 142 square degrees of sky in the frequency range…

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…

The Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) is uniquely able to perform deep, 15" resolutions imaging at frequencies below 100 MHz. Observations in this regime, using the Low Band Antenna (LBA) system, are significantly affected by instrumental and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 J. M. Boxelaar , F. De Gasperin , M. J. Hardcastle , J. H. Croston , L. K. Morabito , R. J. van Weeren , H. Edler

We present an overview of the LOFAR Tied-Array All-Sky Survey (LOTAAS) for radio pulsars and fast transients. The survey uses the high-band antennas of the LOFAR Superterp, the dense inner part of the LOFAR core, to survey the northern sky…

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

NenuFAR (New extension in Nan\c{c}ay upgrading LoFAR) is a new radio telescope developed and built on the site of the Nan\c{c}ay Radio Observatory. It is designed to observe the largely unexplored frequency window from 10 to 85\,MHz,…

Relatively little information is available about the Universe at ultra-low radio frequencies, i.e. below 50 MHz (ULF), although the ULF spectral window contains a wealth of unique diagnostics for studying galactic and extragalactic…

Digital radio antenna arrays, like LOPES (LOFAR PrototypE Station), detect high-energy cosmic rays via the radio emission from atmospheric extensive air showers. LOPES is an array of dipole antennas placed within and triggered by the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-14 F. G. Schröder , T. Asch , L. Bähren , J. Blümer , H. Bozdog , H. Falcke , A. Haungs , A. Horneffer , T. Huege , P. G. Isar , O. Krömer , S. Nehls

The measurement of the radio emission from extensive air showers, induced by high-energy cosmic rays is one of the key science projects of the LOFAR radio telescope. The LOfar Radboud air shower Array (LORA) has been installed in the core…

The Lockman Hole is a well-studied extragalactic field with extensive multi-band ancillary data covering a wide range in frequency, essential for characterising the physical and evolutionary properties of the various source populations…

The pattern of the radio emission of air showers is finely sampled with the Low-Frequency ARray (LOFAR). A set of 382 measured air showers is used to test a fast, analytic parameterization of the distribution of pulse powers. Using this…

Traditional radio telescopes use large, steel dishes to observe radio sources. The LOFAR radio telescope is different, and uses tens of thousands of fixed, non-movable antennas instead, a novel design that promises ground-breaking research…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-05-04 Jan David Mol , John W. Romein

Over the next few years the new radio telescopes, such as the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) will greatly enhance our knowledge of the active history of the Universe. Large-area surveys with these new telescopes will no longer be dominated by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matt J. Jarvis

Low frequency imaging radio arrays such as MWA, LWA and LOFAR have been recently commissioned, and significantly more advanced and flexible arrays are planned for the near term. These powerful instruments offer new opportunities for direct…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 C. Lonsdale , L. Benkevitch , I. Cairns , M. Crowley , P. Erickson , M. Knapp , K. Kozarev , F. Lind , P. McCauley , J. Morgan , D. Oberoi

The non transparency and severe propagation effects of the terrestrial ionosphere make it impossible for Earth based instruments to study the universe at low radio frequencies. An exploration of the low frequency radio window with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Divya Oberoi , Jean-Louis Pinçon

In this paper, we investigate the relationship between 150MHz luminosity and star formation rate (the SFR-L150 relation) using 150MHz measurements for a near-infrared selected sample of 118,517 $z<1$ galaxies. New radio survey data offer…