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The Scientific Potential of LOFAR for Time Domain Astronomy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 April 2012
Abstract
LOFAR is a ground-breaking low-frequency radio telescope that is 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, our plans to use it for a range of transient searches, and some crude estimated rates of transient detections.
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- Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 7 , Symposium S285: New Horizons in Time-Domain Astronomy , September 2011 , pp. 11 - 16
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- Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2012
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