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
Di Gennaro G
(2021)
A LOFAR-uGMRT spectral index study of distant radio halos
Maschmann D
(2021)
Central star formation in double-peak gas rich radio galaxies
Wang L
(2021)
The bright end of the infrared luminosity functions and the abundance of hyperluminous infrared galaxies
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Roy N
(2021)
Radio Morphology of Red Geysers
in The Astrophysical Journal
Rajpurohit K
(2021)
Physical insights from the spectrum of the radio halo in MACS J0717.5+3745
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Smith D
(2021)
The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey Deep Fields The star-formation rate-radio luminosity relation at low frequencies
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Hoang D
(2021)
LOFAR detection of a low-power radio halo in the galaxy cluster Abell 990
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Ramasawmy J
(2021)
Low-frequency radio spectra of submillimetre galaxies in the Lockman Hole
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Hardcastle M
(2021)
The contribution of discrete sources to the sky temperature at 144 MHz
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Hoeft M
(2021)
Abell 1430: A merging cluster with exceptional diffuse radio emission
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 |