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
Davis I
(2021)
Large closed-field corona of WX Ursae Majoris evidenced from radio observations
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
De Gasperin F
(2023)
The LOFAR LBA Sky Survey II. First data release
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
De Gasperin F
(2021)
The LOFAR LBA Sky Survey I. Survey description and preliminary data release
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
De Ruiter I
(2021)
Limits on long-time-scale radio transients at 150 MHz using the TGSS ADR1 and LoTSS DR2 catalogues
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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
Di Gennaro G
(2023)
The diffuse radio emission in the high-redshift cluster PSZ2 G091.83+26.11: Total intensity and polarisation analysis with Very Large Array 1-4 GHz observations
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 |