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
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 |