Research report 2011 - Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy

LOFAR - the new software telescope for long radio waves

Authors
Beck, Rainer; Verbiest, Joris P. W.; Anderson, James M.; Kramer, Michael
Departments
Radioastronomische Fundamentalphysik (Michael Kramer)
Summary
The new digitally steered meter-wave radio telescope LOFAR (Low Frequency Array), designed by ASTRON/Netherlands, has fibre-connected stations in the Netherlands, Germany, France, Sweden, and the UK. Jointly operated as the International LOFAR Telescope (ILT), it has the world’s largest collecting area. It opens up new possibilities in many astronomical research areas. The MPI for Radio Astronomy investigates the emission of pulsars and to measure magnetic fields in pulsar-wind nebulae, in our Milky Way and in external galaxies.

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