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
Osinga E
(2020)
Alignment in the orientation of LOFAR radio sources
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Osinga E
(2021)
Diffuse radio emission from galaxy clusters in the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey Deep Fields
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Oei M
(2023)
Measuring the giant radio galaxy length distribution with the LoTSS
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
O'Sullivan S
(2023)
The Faraday Rotation Measure Grid of the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey: Data Release 2
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
O'Sullivan S
(2018)
The intergalactic magnetic field probed by a giant radio galaxy
O'Sullivan S
(2019)
The intergalactic magnetic field probed by a giant radio galaxy
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
O'Sullivan S
(2018)
Untangling Cosmic Magnetic Fields: Faraday Tomography at Metre Wavelengths with LOFAR
in Galaxies
Mulcahey C
(2022)
Star formation and AGN feedback in the local Universe: Combining LOFAR and MaNGA
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Mostert R
(2022)
Radio source-component association for the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey with region-based convolutional neural networks
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 |