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
Hale C
(2024)
Cosmology from LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey Data Release 2: angular clustering of radio sources
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Botteon A
(2024)
A radio bubble shredded by gas sloshing?
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Lusetti G
(2024)
Re-energization of AGN head-tail radio galaxies in the galaxy cluster ZwCl 0634.1+47474
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Rajpurohit K
(2023)
Abell 746: A highly disturbed cluster undergoing multiple mergers
Eyles-Ferris R
(2023)
Finding LoTSS of hosts for GRBs: a search for galaxy-gamma-ray burst coincidences at low frequencies with LOFAR
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
De Gasperin F
(2023)
The LOFAR LBA Sky Survey II. First data release
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Gajovic L
(2023)
Weakly interacting massive particle cross section limits from LOFAR observations of dwarf spheroidal galaxies
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Simonte M
(2023)
Revisiting the alignment of radio galaxies in the ELAIS-N1 field
Ignesti A
(2023)
On the Encounter between the GASP Galaxy JO36 and the Radio Plume of GIN 049
in The Astrophysical Journal
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 |