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Searches for millisecond-duration, dispersed single pulses have become a standard tool used during radio pulsar surveys in the last decade. They have enabled the discovery of two new classes of sources: rotating radio transients and fast…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-17 D. Michilli , J. W. T. Hessels , R. J. Lyon , C. M. Tan , C. Bassa , S. Cooper , V. I. Kondratiev , S. Sanidas , B. W. Stappers , J. van Leeuwen

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…

Building the radio sky template are crucial for detecting the 21 cm emission line signal from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR), as well as for other cosmological research endeavors. Utilizing data from the LOFAR Two-meter Sky Survey (LoTSS)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-07 Jinyang Lin , Zhenghao Zhu , Renyi Ma , Anna Bonaldi , Huanyuan Shan

Forthcoming astronomical surveys are expected to detect new sources in such large numbers that measuring their spectroscopic redshift measurements will be not be practical. Thus, there is much interest in using machine learning to yield the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 S. J. Curran

The polarization properties of radio sources at very low frequencies (<200 MHz) have not been widely measured, but the new generation of low-frequency radio telescopes, including the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR: a Square Kilometre Array Low…

We present a novel machine learning based approach for detecting galaxy-scale gravitational lenses from interferometric data, specifically those taken with the International LOFAR Telescope (ILT), which is observing the northern radio sky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-03 S. Rezaei , J. P. McKean , M. Biehl , W. de Roo1 , A. Lafontaine

With the aim of using machine learning techniques to obtain photometric redshifts based upon a source's radio spectrum alone, we have extracted the radio sources from the Million Quasars Catalogue. Of these, 44,119 have a spectroscopic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-25 S. J. Curran , J. P. Moss , Y. C. Perrott

The vast majority of extragalactic compact continuum radio sources are associated with star formation or jets from (super)massive black holes and, as such, are more likely to be found in association with starburst galaxies or early-type…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-20 D. Vohl , H. K. Vedantham , J. W. T. Hessels , C. G. Bassa , D. O. Cook , D. L. Kaplan , T. W. Shimwell , C. Zhang

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 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

Context. Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and star forming galaxies (SFGs) are the primary sources of extragalactic radio sky. But it is difficult to distinguish the radio emission produced by AGNs from that by SFGs, especially when the radio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-17 Xu-Liang Fan , Jie Li

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

We present the final 6'' resolution data release of the ELAIS-N1 field from the LOw-Frequency ARray (LOFAR) Two-metre Sky Survey Deep Fields project (LoTSS Deep). The 144MHz images are the most sensitive achieved to date at this frequency…

We propose a machine-learning-based technique to determine the number density of radio sources as a function of their flux density, for use in next-generation radio surveys. The method uses a convolutional neural network trained on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-17 Elisa Todarello , Andre Scaffidi , Marco Regis , Marco Taoso

The field of radio astronomy is witnessing a boom in the amount of data produced per day due to newly commissioned radio telescopes. One of the most crucial problems in this field is the automatic classification of extragalactic radio…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-04 Abdollah Masoud Darya , Ilias Fernini , Marley Vellasco , Abir Hussain

The study of machine learning (ML) techniques for the autonomous classification of astrophysical sources is of great interest, and we explore its applications in the context of a multifrequency data-frame. We test the use of supervised ML…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-07 Bruno Arsioli , Pedro Dedin

The faint radio-source population includes sources dominated both by star formation and active galactic nuclei (AGN), encoding the evolution of activity in the Universe. To investigate its nature, we probabilistically classified 4,471 radio…