LOFAR-UK 2016-2019: LOFAR-UK Compute Facility
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Hertfordshire
Department Name: School of Physics, Astronomy and Maths
Abstract
LOFAR, the LOw-Frequency ARray, is the world's most sensitive radio telescope operating at metre wavelengths. It is now producing extremely sensitive and detailed images of the radio sky at these wavelengths, but the data reduction process is complex. The proposed funding allows us to maintain and expand an existing computing facility for the use of UK astronomers involved in LOFAR.
Planned Impact
See main LOFAR-UK proposal for details.
Organisations
Publications
Hardcastle M
(2016)
LOFAR/H-ATLAS: a deep low-frequency survey of the Herschel -ATLAS North Galactic Pole field
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Burningham B
(2016)
A LOFAR mini-survey for low-frequency radio emission from the nearest brown dwarfs
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Williams W
(2016)
LOFAR 150-MHz observations of the Boötes field: catalogue and source counts
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Tasse C.
(2017)
Faceting for direction-dependent spectral deconvolution
in ArXiv e-prints
Sabater J
(2017)
Calibration of LOFAR data on the cloud
in Astronomy and Computing
Shimwell T
(2017)
The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey I. Survey description and preliminary data release?
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Sabater J
(2017)
Calibration of LOFAR data on the cloud
Tasse C
(2018)
Faceting for direction-dependent spectral deconvolution
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Van Eck C. L.
(2018)
Polarized point sources in the LOFAR Two-meter Sky Survey: A preliminary catalog
in ArXiv e-prints
Description | The LOFAR-UK compute facility was used by scientists round the UK to process LOFAR individual observations and surveys data. It underpinned the release of LoTSS data release 1, with many tens of papers on active galaxies, clusters, star-forming galaxies being produced as a direct result. |
Exploitation Route | Astronomers round the world are building on the newly processed data, including the original team. |
Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Other |
URL | https://lofar-surveys.org/ |
Title | LOFAR Tier 1 pipeline |
Description | A fully automatic LOFAR data reduction pipeline for imaging. |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | A number of publications have already used this software. |
URL | https://github.com/mhardcastle/ddf-pipeline |