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
Hardcastle M
(2016)
LOFAR/H-ATLAS: a deep low-frequency survey of the Herschel -ATLAS North Galactic Pole field
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Mahatma V
(2019)
LoTSS DR1: Double-double radio galaxies in the HETDEX field
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Roberts I
(2021)
LoTSS jellyfish galaxies I. Radio tails in low redshift clusters
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Roberts I
(2021)
LoTSS jellyfish galaxies II. Ram pressure stripping in groups versus clusters
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Roberts I
(2022)
LoTSS jellyfish galaxies III. The first identification of jellyfish galaxies in the Perseus cluster
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Stacey H
(2019)
LoTSS/HETDEX: Disentangling star formation and AGN activity in gravitationally lensed radio-quiet quasars
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Gürkan G
(2019)
LoTSS/HETDEX: Optical quasars I. Low-frequency radio properties of optically selected quasars
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Gloudemans A
(2021)
Low frequency radio properties of the z > 5 quasar population
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Callingham J
(2021)
Low-frequency monitoring of flare star binary CR Draconis: long-term electron-cyclotron maser emission
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Ramasawmy J
(2021)
Low-frequency radio spectra of submillimetre galaxies in the Lockman Hole
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 |