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The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) is under construction and will be commissioned in September 2016. A low frequency 7-beam receiver working around 400 MHz is proposed for FAST early science. It will be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-20 Youling Yue , Di Li , Rendong Nan

In recent years, thanks to new facilities such as LOFAR capable of sensitive observations, much work has been done on the detection of stellar radio emission at low frequencies. Such emission has commonly been shown to be coherent emission,…

Type III radio bursts are the result of plasma emission from mildly relativistic electron beams propagating from the low solar corona into the heliosphere where they can eventually be detected in situ if they align with the location of a…

We investigate the number and type of pulsars that will be discovered with the low-frequency radio telescope LOFAR. We consider different search strategies for the Galaxy, for globular clusters and for other galaxies. We show that a 25-day…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Joeri van Leeuwen , Ben Stappers

Low-frequency spectral studies of radio pulsars represent a key method for uncovering their emission mechanisms, magnetospheric structure, and signal interactions with the surrounding interstellar medium (ISM). In recent years, more…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-13 Ting Yu , Zhongli Zhang , Hongyu Gong , Zhigang Wen

Rotating radio transients (RRATs) are neutron stars that emit detectable radio bursts sporadically. They are statistically distinct in the neutron star population, in many observable properties, but by their nature are practically difficult…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-21 D. J. McKenna , E. F. Keane , P. T. Gallagher , J. McCauley

The new generation of low-frequency radio telescopes, such as the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR: a Square Kilometre Array-low pathfinder), provides advancements in our capability of probing Galactic magnetism through low-frequency polarimetry.…

Radio continuum emission has the potential to be an extinction-free tracer of star formation. However, the relation between radio continuum luminosity and star formation rate, the radio-SFR relation, is affected by various effects such as…

In this Letter, we report the discovery of a radio halo in the high-redshift galaxy cluster PSZ2 G099.86+58.45 ($z=0.616$) with the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) at 120-168 MHz. This is one of the most distant radio halos discovered so far.…

We present an in-situ antenna characterization method and results for a "low-frequency" radio astronomy engineering prototype array, characterized over the 75-300 MHz frequency range. The presence of multiple cosmic radio sources,…

Radio galaxies are linearly polarized -- an important property that allows us to infer the properties of the magnetic field of the source and its environment. However at low frequencies, Faraday rotation substantially depolarizes the…

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…

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

Direct detection of the Dark Ages and the Epoch of Reionization (EOR) is among the main scientific objectives of all current and future low-frequency radio facilities. In this paper we summarize and discuss recent results, based on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ilian T. Iliev , Garrelt Mellema , Ue-Li Pen , Paul R. Shapiro

The low-frequency radio telescope of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is being built by the international radio astronomical community to (i) have orders of magnitude higher sensitivity and (ii) be able to map the sky several hundred times…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-29 Agaram Raghunathan , Keerthipriya Satish , Arasi Sathyamurthy , T. Prabu , B. S. Girish , K. S. Srivani , Shiv K. Sethi

Low frequency radio wave scattering and refraction can have a dramatic effect on the observed size and position of radio sources in the solar corona. The scattering and refraction is thought to be due to fluctuations in electron density…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 Pearse C. Murphy , Eoin P. Carley , Aoife Maria Ryan , Pietro Zucca , Peter T. Gallagher

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…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extraordinary astrophysical phenomena characterized by short radio pulses that last only a few milliseconds, yet their power can surpass that of 500 million suns. To date, most detected FRBs originate from…

The radio-wavelength detection of extensive air showers (EAS) initiated by cosmic-ray interactions in the Earth's atmosphere is a promising technique for investigating the origin of these particles and the physics of their interactions. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-29 A. Williamson , C. W. James , S. J. Tingay , S. J. McSweeney , S. M. Ord

Through the use of a High Band Antenna system, the Low Frequency Array Two-Meter Sky Survey (LoTSS) is an attempt to complete a high-resolution survey of the northern celestial sky. To date, thousands of radio sources have been classified…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-04 Antonio Paris