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The Scientific Potential of LOFAR for Time Domain Astronomy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2012

Rob Fender
Rob Fender*
Affiliation:
School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK For TKSP member list see: www.transientskp.org/team.shtml email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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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.

Keywords

accretionstars:binariesstars:pulsarsstars:supernovae:generalISM: jets and outflowsradio continuum: general
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 7 , Symposium S285: New Horizons in Time-Domain Astronomy , September 2011 , pp. 11 - 16
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2012

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