The following was posted on the
ASTRON website today:
The
long-awaited LOFAR overview paper has now been accepted for publication
in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. This paper is intended to
serve as a general reference and gives an overview of the LOFAR
instrument, its major hardware and software components, and the core
science objectives that have driven its design. The paper also presents a
selection of new results from the commissioning phase of this new radio
observatory. Over two years in the making, the paper features 56 pages, 34 figures,
and 200 authors. The paper will be published in a forthcoming volume of
Astronomy & Astrophysics, but in the meantime copies can be
downloaded from the astro-ph archive:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.3550
The release of the paper is well timed of course to take advantage of
the tsunami of citations sure to be produced by the flood of science
papers expected from the first year of LOFAR regular operations. In
addition, this paper will hopefully be the first of many more reference
papers detailing the various components of the LOFAR system including
the pipelines, archive, and MSSS surveys.
Fromall of us here at KAIRA, well done to the LOFAR team for this epic paper (for an epic project!).
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