LOFAR-UK Request for Continued Funding, 2021-2024, and LOFAR2.0 Upgrade
Lead Research Organisation:
DURHAM UNIVERSITY
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
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Organisations
Publications
Arias M
(2025)
The Crab Nebula at sub-arcsecond resolution with the International LOFAR Telescope
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Badole S
(2022)
High-resolution imaging with the International LOFAR Telescope: Observations of the gravitational lenses MG 0751+2716 and CLASS B1600+434
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Bisigello L
(2025)
Host galaxy identification of LOFAR sources in the Euclid Deep Field North
in The Open Journal of Astrophysics
Boxelaar J
(2025)
LOFAR 58 MHz Legacy Survey of the 3CRR catalog
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
De Jong J
(2025)
Unlocking ultra-deep wide-field imaging with sidereal visibility averaging
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
De Jong J
(2025)
Scalable and robust wide-field facet calibration with LOFAR's longest baselines
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Di Gennaro G
(2026)
The LOFAR sub-arcsecond view of the high-redshift radio relic in PSZ2 G091.83+26.11
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Duncan K
(2021)
The LOFAR Two-meter Sky Survey: Deep Fields Data Release 1 IV. Photometric redshifts and stellar masses
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Gani A
(2026)
Wiggling through the ICM: multiresolution radio imaging of a tailed radio galaxy in MACS J1354.6+7715
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Harwood J
(2022)
The resolved jet of 3C 273 at 150 MHz Sub-arcsecond imaging with the LOFAR international baselines
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
| Description | JIVE review board |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Title | LOFAR VLBI common workflow language pipeline |
| Description | The Low-Frequency Array Very Long Baseline Interferometry (LOFAR-VLBI) pipeline is a calibration and imaging pipeline that includes all of LOFAR's international stations. It looks and solves for delays using an in-field calibrator within the field of view of the pointing. The pipeline provides: solution tables written in a file in the hierarchical data format (version 5), referred to as an h5parm, a self-calibrated, corrected dataset for the in-field calibrator. The delay solutions are applied back to the original data. From there the pipeline can split out smaller datasets in the desired target direction(s) within the field of view. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | This is the first working version of the LOFAR-VLBI pipeline in the common workflow language. As a community, LOFAR is moving towards common workflow language for all of its data reduction. This pipeline, although only recently published, can be seamlessly integrated into our production workflows for processing LOFAR-VLBI data. |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/7737402 |
| Title | LOFAR-VLBI pipeline v4.0.0 |
| Description | This is a new release of the pipeline which processes LOFAR data at high resolution. The pipeline now uses a more robust self-calibration algorithm, which improves the results. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | None yet. |
| URL | https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2022/02/aa40649-21.pdf |
| Description | Mexborough Public Lecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Gave public lecture at amateur astronomical society, which lead to significant discussion and increased interest in research field |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Pint of Science public talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk to ~40 people from the general public about research field, which lead to significant discussion and interest in research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Press release on Porphyrion |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Collaborated with the Durham University Communications team to publish a press release on a Nature paper |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/latest-news/2024/09/giant-black-hole-jets/ |