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We present the first deep (72 hours of observations) radio image of the Euclid Deep Field North (EDFN) obtained with the LOw-Frequency ARray (LOFAR) High Band Antenna (HBA) at 144 MHz. The EDFN is the latest addition to the LOFAR Two-Metre…

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Understanding the low-frequency radio sky in depth is necessary to subtract foregrounds in order to detect the redshifted 21 cm signal of neutral hydrogen from the Cosmic Dawn, Epoch of Reionization (EoR) and post-reionization era. In this…

Aims. Previous studies reported an alignment of the major axes of radio galaxies on various angular scales. Here, we study the alignment of radio galaxies in the ELAIS-N1 Low Frequency ARray (LOFAR) deep field, which covers an area of 25…

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We present the optical identification of mid-IR and radio sources detected in the European Large Area ISO Survey (ELAIS) areas N1 and N2. Using the r' band optical data from the Wide Field Survey we apply a likelihood ratio method to search…

We present a detailed study of the cosmic star formation history over $90$ per cent of cosmic time ($0\lesssim z\lesssim4$), using deep, radio continuum observations that probe star formation activity independent of dust. The Low Frequency…

We present the Multifrequency Snapshot Sky Survey (MSSS), the first northern-sky LOFAR imaging survey. In this introductory paper, we first describe in detail the motivation and design of the survey. Compared to previous radio surveys, MSSS…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 G. H. Heald , R. F. Pizzo , E. Orrú , R. P. Breton , D. Carbone , C. Ferrari , M. J. Hardcastle , W. Jurusik , G. Macario , D. Mulcahy , D. Rafferty , A. Asgekar , M. Brentjens , R. A. Fallows , W. Frieswijk , M. C. Toribio , B. Adebahr , M. Arts , M. R. Bell , A. Bonafede , J. Bray , J. Broderick , T. Cantwell , P. Carroll , Y. Cendes , A. O. Clarke , J. Croston , S. Daiboo , F. de Gasperin , J. Gregson , J. Harwood , T. Hassall , V. Heesen , A. Horneffer , A. J. van der Horst , M. Iacobelli , V. Jelić , D. Jones , D. Kant , G. Kokotanekov , P. Martin , J. P. McKean , L. K. Morabito , B. Nikiel-Wroczyński , A. Offringa , V. N. Pandey , M. Pandey-Pommier , M. Pietka , L. Pratley , C. Riseley , A. Rowlinson , J. Sabater , A. M. M. Scaife , L. H. A. Scheers , K. Sendlinger , A. Shulevski , M. Sipior , C. Sobey , A. J. Stewart , A. Stroe , J. Swinbank , C. Tasse , J. Trüstedt , E. Varenius , S. van Velzen , N. Vilchez , R. J. van Weeren , S. Wijnholds , W. L. Williams , A. G. de Bruyn , R. Nijboer , M. Wise , A. Alexov , J. Anderson , I. M. Avruch , R. Beck , M. E. Bell , I. van Bemmel , M. J. Bentum , G. Bernardi , P. Best , F. Breitling , W. N. Brouw , M. Brüggen , H. R. Butcher , B. Ciardi , J. E. Conway , E. de Geus , A. de Jong , M. de Vos , A. Deller , R. J. Dettmar , S. Duscha , J. Eislöffel , D. Engels , H. Falcke , R. Fender , M. A. Garrett , J. Grießmeier , A. W. Gunst , J. P. Hamaker , J. W. T. Hessels , M. Hoeft , J. Hörandel , H. A. Holties , H. Intema , N. J. Jackson , E. Jütte , A. Karastergiou , W. F. A. Klijn , V. I. Kondratiev , L. V. E. Koopmans , M. Kuniyoshi , G. Kuper , C. Law , J. van Leeuwen , M. Loose , P. Maat , S. Markoff , R. McFadden , D. McKay-Bukowski , M. Mevius , J. C. A. Miller-Jones , R. Morganti , H. Munk , A. Nelles , J. E. Noordam , M. J. Norden , H. Paas , A. G. Polatidis , W. Reich , A. Renting , H. Röttgering , A. Schoenmakers , D. Schwarz , J. Sluman , O. Smirnov , B. W. Stappers , M. Steinmetz , M. Tagger , Y. Tang , S. ter Veen , S. Thoudam , R. Vermeulen , C. Vocks , C. Vogt , R. A. M. J. Wijers , O. Wucknitz , S. Yatawatta , P. Zarka

In this article we present deep, high-resolution radio interferometric observations at 153 MHz to complement the extensively studied NOAO Bootes field. We provide a description of the observations, data reduction and source catalog…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 H. T. Intema , R. J. van Weeren , H. J. A. Rottgering , D. V. Lal

Aims. An efficient means of locating calibrator sources for International LOFAR is developed and used to determine the average density of usable calibrator sources on the sky for subarcsecond observations at 140 MHz. Methods. We used the…

We present a catalogue of optical and near-infrared counterparts to radio sources detected in the Euclid Deep Field North (EDF-N) using observations from the LOw-Frequency ARray (LOFAR) High Band Antenna (HBA) at 144 MHz with 6 arcsec…

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…

The LOw Frequency ARray Two-metre Sky Survey second data release (LoTSS DR2) covers 27\% of the northern sky and contains around four million radio sources. The development of this catalogue involved a large citizen science project (Radio…

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A Faraday rotation measure (RM) catalogue, or RM Grid, is a valuable resource for the study of cosmic magnetism. Using the second data release (DR2) from the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS), we have produced a catalogue of 2461…

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…

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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…

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…

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…

We present the results of a four-month campaign searching for low-frequency radio transients near the North Celestial Pole with the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR), as part of the Multifrequency Snapshot Sky Survey (MSSS). The data were…

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