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
Hoang D
(2021)
A 3.5 Mpc long radio relic in the galaxy cluster ClG 0217+70
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Botteon A
(2020)
A giant radio bridge connecting two clusters in Abell 1758
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
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
Ignesti A
(2022)
A LOFAR view into the stormy environment of the galaxy cluster 2A0335+096
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Di Gennaro G
(2021)
A LOFAR-uGMRT spectral index study of distant radio halos
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Di Gennaro G
(2021)
A LOFAR-uGMRT spectral index study of distant radio halos
Mahatma V
(2020)
A low frequency study of linear polarization in radio galaxies
Mahatma V
(2021)
A low-frequency study of linear polarization in radio galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Mahatma V
(2023)
A low-frequency sub-arcsecond view of powerful radio galaxies in rich-cluster environments: 3C 34 and 3C 320
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
| 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 |