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
Van Eck C. L.
(2018)
Polarized point sources in the LOFAR Two-meter Sky Survey: A preliminary catalog
in ArXiv e-prints
Tasse C.
(2017)
Faceting for direction-dependent spectral deconvolution
in ArXiv e-prints
Osinga E
(2020)
Alignment in the orientation of LOFAR radio sources
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Capetti A
(2022)
The LOFAR view of giant, early-type galaxies: Radio emission from active nuclei and star formation
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Mooney S
(2019)
Blazars in the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey first data release
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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
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
Roberts I
(2021)
LoTSS jellyfish galaxies II. Ram pressure stripping in groups versus clusters
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Heesen V
(2022)
Nearby galaxies in the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey I. Insights into the non-linearity of the radio-SFR relation
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 |