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
Mahatma V
(2021)
A low-frequency study of linear polarization in radio galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Lusetti G
(2024)
Re-energization of AGN head-tail radio galaxies in the galaxy cluster ZwCl 0634.1+47474
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Kondapally R
(2021)
The LOFAR Two-meter Sky Survey: Deep Fields Data Release 1 III. Host-galaxy identifications and value added catalogues
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
J. A. Röttgering H
(2020)
Radio constraints on dark matter annihilation in Canes Venatici I with LOFAR†
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Ignesti A
(2022)
Walk on the Low Side: LOFAR Explores the Low-frequency Radio Emission of GASP Jellyfish Galaxies
in The Astrophysical Journal
Ignesti A
(2023)
On the Encounter between the GASP Galaxy JO36 and the Radio Plume of GIN 049
in The Astrophysical Journal
Ignesti A
(2023)
Radio continuum tails in ram pressure-stripped spiral galaxies: Experimenting with a semi-empirical model in Abell 2255
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Ignesti A
(2020)
The great Kite in the sky: A LOFAR observation of the radio source in Abell 2626
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Ignesti A
(2022)
A LOFAR view into the stormy environment of the galaxy cluster 2A0335+096
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 |