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Observations of transients and pulsars with LOFAR international stations and the ARTEMIS backend

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 March 2013

Maciej Serylak
Affiliation:
Station de Radioastronomie de Nançay, Observatoire de Paris, CNRS/INSU, 18330 Nançay, France email: [email protected] Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace, LPC2E UMR 7328 CNRS, 45071 Orléans Cedex 02, France
Aris Karastergiou
Affiliation:
Astrophysics, University of Oxford, Keble Road, OX1 3RH, United Kingdom email: [email protected]
Chris Williams
Affiliation:
Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford, Keble Road, OX1 3QG, United Kingdom email: [email protected]
Wesley Armour
Affiliation:
Institute for the Future of Computing, University of Oxford, Keble Road, OX1 3QG, United Kingdom email: [email protected]
Michael Giles
Affiliation:
Institute for the Future of Computing, University of Oxford, Keble Road, OX1 3QG, United Kingdom email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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The LOw Frequency ARray – LOFAR – is a new radio interferometer designed with emphasis on flexible digital hardware instead of mechanical solutions. The array elements, so-called stations, are located in the Netherlands and in neighbouring countries. The design of LOFAR allows independent use of its international stations, which, coupled with a dedicated backend, makes them very powerful telescopes in their own right. This backend is called the Advanced Radio Transient Event Monitor and Identification System (ARTEMIS). It is a combined software/hardware solution for both targeted observations and real-time searches for millisecond radio transients which uses Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) technology to remove interstellar dispersion and detect millisecond radio bursts from astronomical sources in real-time.

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Contributed Papers
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2013

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