Tuesday, December 13, 2011

1112.2580 (Rob Fender et al.)

The scientific potential of LOFAR for time-domain astronomy    [PDF]

Rob Fender, for the LOFAR Transients Key Science Project
LOFAR is a groundbreaking low-frequency radio telescope currently nearing completion across northern europe. As a software telescope with no moving parts, enormous fields of view and multi-beaming, it has fantastic potential for the exploration of the time-variable universe. In this brief paper I outline LOFAR's capabilities, as well as our plans to use it for a range of transient searches and some crude estimated rates of transient detections.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.2580

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