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To date, only 69 pulsars have been identified with a detected pulsed radio emission below 100 MHz. A LOFAR-core LBA census and a dedicated campaign with the Nan\c{c}ay LOFAR station in stand-alone mode were carried out in the years…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-18 L. Bondonneau , J. -M. Grießmeier , G. Theureau , A. V. Bilous , V. I. Kondratiev , M. Serylak , M. J. Keith , A. G. Lyne

Pulsar timing is a foundational part of pulsar research to triage the most interesting systems and to characterise properties (rotational or otherwise) of the population of these extreme objects. Due to the efficiency of a number of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-25 D. J. McKenna , E. F. Keane , P. T. Gallagher , J. McCauley

LOFAR, the LOw-Frequency ARray, is a new-generation radio interferometer constructed in the north of the Netherlands and across europe. Utilizing a novel phased-array design, LOFAR covers the largely unexplored low-frequency range from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 M. P. van Haarlem , M. W. Wise , A. W. Gunst , G. Heald , J. P. McKean , J. W. T. Hessels , A. G. de Bruyn , R. Nijboer , J. Swinbank , R. Fallows , M. Brentjens , A. Nelles , R. Beck , H. Falcke , R. Fender , J. Hörandel , L. V. E. Koopmans , G. Mann , G. Miley , H. Röttgering , B. W. Stappers , R. A. M. J. Wijers , S. Zaroubi , M. van den Akker , A. Alexov , J. Anderson , K. Anderson , A. van Ardenne , M. Arts , A. Asgekar , I. M. Avruch , F. Batejat , L. Bähren , M. E. Bell , M. R. Bell , I. van Bemmel , P. Bennema , M. J. Bentum , G. Bernardi , P. Best , L. Bîrzan , A. Bonafede , A. -J. Boonstra , R. Braun , J. Bregman , F. Breitling , R. H. van de Brink , J. Broderick , P. C. Broekema , W. N. Brouw , M. Brüggen , H. R. Butcher , W. van Cappellen , B. Ciardi , T. Coenen , J. Conway , A. Coolen , A. Corstanje , S. Damstra , O. Davies , A. T. Deller , R. -J. Dettmar , G. van Diepen , K. Dijkstra , P. Donker , A. Doorduin , J. Dromer , M. Drost , A. van Duin , J. Eislöffel , J. van Enst , C. Ferrari , W. Frieswijk , H. Gankema , M. A. Garrett , F. de Gasperin , M. Gerbers , E. de Geus , J. -M. Grießmeier , T. Grit , P. Gruppen , J. P. Hamaker , T. Hassall , M. Hoeft , H. Holties , A. Horneffer , A. van der Horst , A. van Houwelingen , A. Huijgen , M. Iacobelli , H. Intema , N. Jackson , V. Jelic , A. de Jong , E. Juette , D. Kant , A. Karastergiou , A. Koers , H. Kollen , V. I. Kondratiev , E. Kooistra , Y. Koopman , A. Koster , M. Kuniyoshi , M. Kramer , G. Kuper , P. Lambropoulos , C. Law , J. van Leeuwen , J. Lemaitre , M. Loose , P. Maat , G. Macario , S. Markoff , J. Masters , D. McKay-Bukowski , H. Meijering , H. Meulman , M. Mevius , E. Middelberg , R. Millenaar , J. C. A. Miller-Jones , R. N. Mohan , J. D. Mol , J. Morawietz , R. Morganti , D. D. Mulcahy , E. Mulder , H. Munk , L. Nieuwenhuis , R. van Nieuwpoort , J. E. Noordam , M. Norden , A. Noutsos , A. R. Offringa , H. Olofsson , A. Omar , E. Orrú , R. Overeem , H. Paas , M. Pandey-Pommier , V. N. Pandey , R. Pizzo , A. Polatidis , D. Rafferty , S. Rawlings , W. Reich , J. -P. de Reijer , J. Reitsma , A. Renting , P. Riemers , E. Rol , J. W. Romein , J. Roosjen , M. Ruiter , A. Scaife , K. van der Schaaf , B. Scheers , P. Schellart , A. Schoenmakers , G. Schoonderbeek , M. Serylak , A. Shulevski , J. Sluman , O. Smirnov , C. Sobey , H. Spreeuw , M. Steinmetz , C. G. M. Sterks , H. -J. Stiepel , K. Stuurwold , M. Tagger , Y. Tang , C. Tasse , I. Thomas , S. Thoudam , M. C. Toribio , B. van der Tol , O. Usov , M. van Veelen , A. -J. van der Veen , S. ter Veen , J. P. W. Verbiest , R. Vermeulen , N. Vermaas , C. Vocks , C. Vogt , M. de Vos , E. van der Wal , R. van Weeren , H. Weggemans , P. Weltevrede , S. White , S. J. Wijnholds , T. Wilhelmsson , O. Wucknitz , S. Yatawatta , P. Zarka , A. Zensus , J. van Zwieten

We are performing two complementary pilot pulsar surveys as part of LOFAR commissioning. The LOFAR Pilot Pulsar Survey (LPPS) is a shallow all-sky survey using an incoherent combination of LOFAR stations. The LOFAR Tied-Array Survey (LOTAS)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Thijs Coenen , The LOFAR Pulsar Working Group

LOFAR (the Low Frequency Array), a distributed digital radio telescope with stations in the Netherlands, Germany, France, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, is designed to enable full-sky monitoring of transient radio sources. These…

The study of transient and variable low-frequency radio sources is a key goal for LOFAR, with an extremely broad science case ranging from relativistic jets sources to pulsars, exoplanets, radio bursts at cosmological distances, the…

The LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) is a next-generation radio telescope which uses thousands of stationary dipoles to observe celestial phenomena. These dipoles are grouped in various 'stations' which are centred on the Netherlands with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Richard A. Fallows , Ashish Asgekar , Mario M Bisi , Andrew R. Breen , Sander ter Veen

The LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) has successfully measured cosmic rays for over a decade now. With its dense core of antenna fields in the Netherlands, it is an ideal tool for studying the radio emission from extensive air showers in the…

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) has recently conducted a survey (LOFAR Tied-Array All-sky Survey; LOTAAS) for pulsars in the Northern hemisphere that resulted in discoveries of 73 new pulsars. For the purpose of studying the properties of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-05 Qi-Wei Lu , Zhong-Xiang Wang , Yi Xing

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…

Air showers from cosmic rays emit short, intense radio pulses. LOFAR is a new radio telescope, that is being built in the Netherlands and Europe. Designed primarily as a radio interferometer, the core of LOFAR will have a high density of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 A. Horneffer , L. Bähren , S. Buitink , H. Falcke , J. R. Hörandel , J. Kuijpers , S. Lafebre , A. Nigl , O. Scholten , K. Singh

LOFAR, the Low-Frequency Array, is a powerful new radio telescope operating between 10 and 240 MHz. LOFAR allows detailed sensitive high-resolution studies of the low-frequency radio sky. At the same time LOFAR also provides excellent short…

LOFAR is a new and sensitive radio interferometer that can be used for dynamic high-resolution imaging spectroscopy at low radio frequencies from 10 to 90 and 110 to 250 MHz. Here we describe its usage for observations of the Sun and in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-22 Frank Breitling , Gottfried Mann , Christian Vocks , Matthias Steinmetz , Klaus G. Strassmeier

The LOw Frequency ARray - LOFAR - is a new radio interferometer designed with emphasis on flexible digital hardware instead of mechanical solutions. The array elements, so-called stations, are located in the Netherlands and in neighbouring…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Maciej Serylak , Aris Karastergiou , Chris Williams , Wesley Armour , Michael Giles , the LOFAR Pulsar Working Group

The Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) is an ideal instrument to conduct deep extragalactic surveys. It has a large field of view and is sensitive to large scale and compact emission. It is, however, very challenging to synthesize thermal noise…

The LOw-Frequency ARray (LOFAR) is used to make precise measurements of radio emission from extensive air showers, yielding information about the primary cosmic ray. Interpreting the measured data requires an absolute and…

LOFAR, the Low-Frequency Array, is a next-generation software-driven radio telescope operating between 30 and 240MHz, currently under construction by ASTRON in the Netherlands. This low frequency radio band is one of the few largely…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-11 P. N. Best , the LOFAR-UK Consortium

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,…

In this paper we present recent Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) observations of the pulsar J1740+1000. We confirm that its spectrum has a turnover at 260 MHz, which is unusual for a typical pulsar. We argue that in this case interferometric…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-02 K. Rozko , J. Kijak , K. Chyzy , W. Lewandowski , T. Shimwell , S. S. Sridhar , M. Curylo , A. Krankowski , L. Blaszkiewicz