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Transient radio phenomena and pulsars are one of six LOFAR Key Science Projects (KSPs). As part of the Transients KSP, the Pulsar Working Group (PWG) has been developing the LOFAR Pulsar Data Pipelines to both study known pulsars as well as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 A. Alexov , J. W. T. Hessels , J. D. Mol , B. Stappers , J. van Leeuwen

The past decade has seen the rise of various radio astronomy arrays, particularly for low-frequency observations below 100MHz. These developments have been primarily driven by interesting and fundamental scientific questions, such as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-28 Raj Thilak Rajan , Albert-Jan Boonstra , Mark Bentum , Marc Klein-Wolt , Frederik Belien , Michel Arts , Noah Saks , Alle-Jan van der Veen

The Long Wavelength Array (LWA) will be a new multi-purpose radio telescope operating in the frequency range 10-88 MHz. Upon completion, LWA will consist of 53 phased array "stations" distributed over a region about 400 km in diameter in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-06 Patricia Henning , Steven W. Ellingson , Gregory B. Taylor , Joseph Craig , Ylva Pihlström , Lee J Rickard , Tracy E. Clarke , Namir E. Kassim , Aaron Cohen

The LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) was used to track the propagation of a TID containing embedded plasma structures which generated type 1 asymmetric quasi periodic scintillations (QPS: Maruyama, 1991) over a distance of >1200 km across…

The Long Wavelength Array (LWA) will be a new multi-purpose radio telescope operating in the frequency range 10-88 MHz. Scientific programs include pulsars, supernova remnants, general transient searches, radio recombination lines, solar…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-11 G. B. Taylor , The LWA Collaboration

Cosmic particles hitting Earth's moon produce radio emission via the Askaryan effect. If the resulting radio ns-pulse can be detected by radio telescopes, this technique potentially increases the available collective area for ZeV scale…

We conducted a follow-up study on the analysis of the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) mosaic in the high-latitude outer Galaxy presented in the first paper of this series. Here, we focus on the search for alignment…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-10 Ana Erceg , Vibor Jelić , Marijke Haverkorn , Andrea Bracco , Lana Ceraj , Luka Turić , Juan D. Soler

Pulsar timing at low frequencies offers a powerful tool for studying the interstellar medium. Additionally, pulsar observations in the ecliptic enables us to study the effects of the solar wind which becomes much more prominent at low radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-25 S. C. Susarla , O. A. Johnson , D. J. McKenna , E. F. Keane , P. J. McCauley , J. P. W. Verbiest , C. Tiburzi , A. Golden

We present a study of the low-frequency radio properties of star forming (SF) galaxies and active galactic nuclei (AGN) up to redshift $z=2.5$. The new spectral window probed by the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) allows us to reconstruct the…

The solar corona is a highly-structured plasma which can reach temperatures of more than ~2 MK. At low frequencies (decimetric and metric wavelengths), scattering and refraction of electromagnetic waves are thought to considerably increase…

Extended radio sources in the sky require a dense sampling of short baselines to be properly imaged by interferometers. This problem arises in many areas of radio astronomy, such as in the study of galaxy clusters, which may host Mpc-scale…

The Large Observatory for X-ray Timing (LOFT) is one of the four candidate ESA M3 missions considered for launch in the 2022 time-frame. It is specifically designed to perform fast X-ray timing and probe the status of the matter near black…

We analyse new observations with the International Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) telescope, and archival data from the Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network (MERLIN) and the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA). We model the…

The low-frequency sky below $\sim$15 MHz (20 m) is obscured by the Earth's ionosphere, the layer of charged particles above the neutral atmosphere. Single spacecraft have made measurements in this band, but cannot achieve high or even…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-15 Mary Knapp , Lenny Paritsky , Ekaterina Kononov , Melodie M. Kao

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project is an international effort to build the world's most sensitive radio telescope operating in the 50 MHz to 14 GHz frequency range. Construction of the SKA is divided into phases, with the first phase…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 Sascha Schediwy , David Gozzard

The behaviour of fast radio bursts (FRBs) at radio frequencies <400 MHz is not well understood due to very few detections, with only two known sources detected below 300 MHz. Characterising low-frequency emission of FRBs is vital for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-03 Pragya Chawla , Akshatha Gopinath , Ninisha Manaswini , Cees Bassa , Jason Hessels , Vlad Kondratiev , Daniele Michilli , Ziggy Pleunis

Ground based low frequency radio interferometers have been developed in the last decade and are providing the scientific community with high quality observations. Conversely, current radioastronomy instruments in space have a poor angular…

iLocater is a near-infrared, extremely precise radial velocity (EPRV) spectrograph under construction for the dual 8.4 m diameter Large Binocular Telescope (LBT). The instrument will undertake precision radial velocity studies of Earth-like…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-02 Jonathan Crass , David Aikens , Joaquin Mason , David King , Justin R. Crepp , Andrew Bechter , Eric Bechter , Mahsa Farsad , Christian Schwab , Michael VanSickle

We present the first wide area (19 deg$^2$), deep ($\approx120-150$ {\mu}Jy beam$^{-1}$), high resolution ($5.6 \times 7.4$ arcsec) LOFAR High Band Antenna image of the Bo\"otes field made at 130-169 MHz. This image is at least an order of…