A pan-European low-frequency radio telescope built from thousands of simple antennas at stations spread across the Netherlands and partner countries including Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Poland, Ireland, Latvia and Italy, their signals combined digitally rather than by physical dishes. Its distributed design makes it one of the largest radio telescopes ever built, used to study the early universe and transient radio phenomena.
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Observatory Type LocationNetherlands, with additional antenna stations in partner countries across Europe 2 Measureslow-frequency radio emission, used to study the formation and evolution of galaxies, clusters and active galactic nuclei 3 Operating PrincipleA digitally combined sensor network of many simple fixed antennas at stations across Europe, rather than a single dish 3 Classification
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What radio frequencies does LOFAR observe?
It operates between 10 and 240 megahertz.
LOFAR operates in the frequency range between 10 and 240 megahertz, a range the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy describes as largely unexplored. ASTRON in the Netherlands constructed it.
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1. Low Frequency Array LOFAR - Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy
Overview pageQuote, Overview page
LOFAR, the Low Frequency Array, is a new European radio telescope constructed by ASTRON in the Netherlands, operating in the largely unexplored frequency range between 10 and 240 MHz.
2. Wikipedia: Low-Frequency Array
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The Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) is a large radio telescope, with an antenna network located mainly in the Netherlands
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The Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) is a large radio telescope, with an antenna network located mainly in the Netherlands
History section
LOFAR was officially opened on June 12, 2010, by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.
In Group: Radio and Millimetre Interferometer Arrays, Lead sentence
The Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) is a large radio telescope, with an antenna network located mainly in the Netherlands, and spreading across 7 other European countries as of 2019.
Operated By: ASTRON, Infobox: organization
ASTRON
View the Source3. LOFAR - ASTRON
Science page
the formation and evolution of galaxies, clusters and active galactic nuclei (AGN)
Technology page
LOFAR is a multipurpose sensor network, with an innovative computer and network infrastructure that can handle extremely large data volumes.
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