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
Röttgering H
(2020)
New constraints on the magnetization of the cosmic web using LOFAR Faraday rotation observations
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Candini S
(2023)
New filamentary remnant radio emission and duty cycle constraints in the radio galaxy NGC 6086
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Williams W
(2019)
NGC 326: X-shaped no more
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Botteon A
(2021)
Nonthermal phenomena in the center of Abell 1775 An 800 kpc head-tail, revived fossil plasma and slingshot radio halo
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Ignesti A
(2023)
On the Encounter between the GASP Galaxy JO36 and the Radio Plume of GIN 049
in The Astrophysical Journal
Siewert T
(2020)
One- and two-point source statistics from the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey first data release
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Boschin W
(2023)
Optical/X-ray/radio view of Abell 1213: A galaxy cluster with anomalous diffuse radio emission
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Croston J
(2018)
Particle content, radio-galaxy morphology, and jet power: all radio-loud AGN are not equal
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Pasini T
(2022)
Particle re-acceleration and diffuse radio sources in the galaxy cluster Abell 1550
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Vedantham H
(2022)
Peculiar Radio-X-Ray Relationship in Active Stars
in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
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 |