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
Croston J
(2018)
Particle content, radio-galaxy morphology, and jet power: all radio-loud AGN are not equal
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Mahatma V
(2018)
Remnant radio-loud AGN in the Herschel-ATLAS field
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
O'Sullivan S
(2018)
The intergalactic magnetic field probed by a giant radio galaxy
Read S
(2018)
The Far-Infrared Radio Correlation at low radio frequency with LOFAR/H-ATLAS
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Heesen V
(2018)
LOFAR reveals the giant: a low-frequency radio continuum study of the outflow in the nearby FR I radio galaxy 3C 31
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
O'Sullivan S
(2018)
Untangling Cosmic Magnetic Fields: Faraday Tomography at Metre Wavelengths with LOFAR
in Galaxies
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
Mahatma V. H.
(2018)
Remnant radio-loud AGN in the Herschel-ATLAS field
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Mooney S
(2019)
Blazars in the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey first data release
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Mooney S
(2019)
Revisiting the Fanaroff-Riley dichotomy and radio-galaxy morphology with the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey (LoTSS)
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Williams W
(2019)
The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey III. First data release: Optical/infrared identifications and value-added catalogue
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Gürkan G
(2019)
LoTSS/HETDEX: Optical quasars I. Low-frequency radio properties of optically selected quasars
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Mahatma V
(2019)
LoTSS DR1: Double-double radio galaxies in the HETDEX field
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Cassano R
(2019)
LOFAR Discovery of a Radio Halo in the High-redshift Galaxy Cluster PSZ2 G099.86+58.45
in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Williams W
(2019)
NGC 326: X-shaped no more
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Shimwell T
(2019)
The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey II. First data release
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Stacey H
(2019)
LoTSS/HETDEX: Disentangling star formation and AGN activity in gravitationally lensed radio-quiet quasars
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Croston J
(2019)
The environments of radio-loud AGN from the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey (LoTSS)
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Hale C
(2019)
LOFAR observations of the XMM-LSS field
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Morabito L
(2019)
The origin of radio emission in broad absorption line quasars: Results from the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Sabater J
(2019)
The LoTSS view of radio AGN in the local Universe The most massive galaxies are always switched on
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Miskolczi A
(2019)
CHANG-ES XII A LOFAR and VLA view of the edge-on star-forming galaxy NGC 3556
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
O'Sullivan S
(2019)
The intergalactic magnetic field probed by a giant radio galaxy
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Hardcastle M
(2019)
Radio-loud AGN in the first LoTSS data release The lifetimes and environmental impact of jet-driven sources
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
Osinga E
(2020)
Alignment in the orientation of LOFAR radio sources
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
J. A. Röttgering H
(2020)
Radio constraints on dark matter annihilation in Canes Venatici I with LOFAR†
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Dabhade P
(2020)
Giant radio galaxies in the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey I. Radio and environmental properties
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Vedantham H
(2020)
Coherent radio emission from a quiescent red dwarf indicative of star-planet interaction
in Nature Astronomy
Zucca P
(2020)
LOFAR 144-MHz follow-up observations of GW170817
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Ignesti A
(2020)
The great Kite in the sky: A LOFAR observation of the radio source in Abell 2626
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Siewert T
(2020)
One- and two-point source statistics from the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey first data release
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Capetti A
(2020)
The LOFAR view of FR 0 radio galaxies
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Röttgering H
(2020)
New constraints on the magnetization of the cosmic web using LOFAR Faraday rotation observations
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Quiroga-Nuñez L
(2020)
Differences in radio emission from similar M dwarfs in the binary system Ross 867-8
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Monguió M
(2020)
IGAPS: the merged IPHAS and UVEX optical surveys of the northern Galactic plane
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Botteon A
(2020)
The Beautiful Mess in Abell 2255
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 |