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
Zucca P
(2020)
LOFAR 144-MHz follow-up observations of GW170817
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Zhang X
(2023)
The Planck clusters in the LOFAR sky III. LoTSS-DR2: Dynamic states and density fluctuations of the intracluster medium
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Williams W
(2019)
The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey III. First data release: Optical/infrared identifications and value-added catalogue
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Williams W
(2019)
NGC 326: X-shaped no more
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
Williams W
(2018)
LOFAR-Boötes: properties of high- and low-excitation radio galaxies at 0.5 < z < 2.0
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Webster B
(2021)
A population of galaxy-scale jets discovered using LOFAR
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Wang L
(2021)
The bright end of the infrared luminosity functions and the abundance of hyperluminous infrared galaxies
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Vedantham H
(2020)
Coherent radio emission from a quiescent red dwarf indicative of star-planet interaction
in Nature Astronomy
Vedantham H
(2023)
Polarised radio pulsations from a new T-dwarf binary
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
| 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 |