This is a great opportunity to bring more attention to the science results already coming out of LOFAR, and the fact that full operations are now happening.
The below is a press release from ASTRON about the meeting:
LOFAR
telescope open for business
On Tuesday 19 and Wednesday 20 March, one
hundred astronomers from all over the world will travel to the town of Dalfsen
in the Netherlands for a 2-day workshop about the International LOFAR Telescope
(ILT), designed and built by ASTRON. Now that the first fully operational
observing cycle has started and the telescope is open to the whole astronomical
community, LOFAR is officially open for business.
The LOFAR telescope owes its strength to
revolutionary new techniques and software for the processing of unprecedented
large data streams from an extensive network of relatively simple radio
receivers, concentrated in the north-east of the Netherlands and spread over
Germany, France, the UK and Sweden.
Eighteen months ago, during the
commissioning and test phase of LOFAR, the first LOFAR science workshop was
held, also in Dalfsen. Since then, new antenna stations have been added to the
array and the sensitivity of the telescope has improved, as well as the
processing software. Besides this, the first appealing scientific results have
already been published in different renowned scientific journals.
During the workshop in March, builders and
users of the telescope, as well as owners of the different international
antenna stations, can exchange science results and technical ideas and deepen
the collaboration to get the most out of the LOFAR telescope at both the
national and international level.
End of press
release
For more information, please contact:
Femke Boekhorst, PR & Communication,
ASTRON: +31 521 595 204 and +31 6 21 23 42 43. E-mail: boekhorst@astron.nl.
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