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
Boschin W
(2023)
Optical/X-ray/radio view of Abell 1213: A galaxy cluster with anomalous diffuse radio emission
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
Miskolczi A
(2019)
CHANG-ES XII A LOFAR and VLA view of the edge-on star-forming galaxy NGC 3556
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Shulevski A
(2023)
LOFAR discovery and wide-band characterisation of an ultra-steep spectrum AGN radio remnant associated with Abell 1318
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Rajpurohit K
(2021)
Understanding the radio relic emission in the galaxy cluster MACS J0717.5+3745: Spectral analysis
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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
O'Sullivan S
(2019)
The intergalactic magnetic field probed by a giant radio galaxy
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Mandal S
(2020)
Revived fossil plasma sources in galaxy clusters
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Toet S
(2021)
Coherent radio emission from a population of RS Canum Venaticorum systems
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Wang L
(2021)
The bright end of the infrared luminosity functions and the abundance of hyperluminous infrared galaxies
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 |