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
Botteon A
(2024)
A radio bubble shredded by gas sloshing?
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Brienza M
(2023)
AGN feedback in an infant galaxy cluster: LOFAR- Chandra view of the giant FRII radio galaxy J103025+052430 at z = 1.7
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Brienza M
(2021)
A snapshot of the oldest active galactic nuclei feedback phases
in Nature Astronomy
Brienza M
(2022)
The galaxy group NGC 507: Newly detected AGN remnant plasma transported by sloshing
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Bruni G
(2021)
Hard X-ray selected giant radio galaxies - III. The LOFAR view
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Bruno L
(2023)
The Planck clusters in the LOFAR sky II. LoTSS-DR2: Recovering diffuse extended emission with LOFAR
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Bruno L
(2021)
The LOFAR and JVLA view of the distant steep spectrum radio halo in MACS J1149.5+2223
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Bruno L
(2023)
A three-component giant radio halo: The puzzling case of the galaxy cluster Abell 2142
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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
Callingham J
(2023)
V-LoTSS: The circularly polarised LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey
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 |