LOFAR surveys meeting

Event starts: 
Wed, 17/06/2009 (All day)
Event ends: 
Fri, 19/06/2009 (All day)

 

17th - 19th June 2009, Edinburgh, UK
http://www.roe.ac.uk/ifa/Meetings/lofarsurveys09/


LOFAR, the LOw Frequency ARray, is the next-generation software telescope for radio frequencies below 250 MHz, being built by ASTRON in the Netherlands, with extensions into the UK and across Europe. Coordinated observing campaigns for general comissioning will commence in the second half of 2009, in step with the rollout of station hardware and processing software for the science modes. An announcement of opportunity is expected to be issued soon, covering a period extending into 2010, for participation in continued comissioning, with a view to large-scale science project preparation and shared-risks early science observing.

This workshop is intended to refine the comissioning and early science plans of the LOFAR Surveys Key Science Project team. Day 1 will be open to everyone, and is intended to inform the LOFAR:UK and wider community of the current status of LOFAR, recent results from commissioning, and the future plans of various KSP teams, with an emphasis on their overlap with the Surveys KSP. Days 2 and 3 will be open to members of the Surveys KSP team only, and will consist of detailed discussions of the commissioning and science plans.

A preliminary outline of the workshop programme is available.

The workshop will be held in the lecture theatre of the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh.

Registration is free (but limited in numbers, so please register soon), and is now open. We are very grateful for funding support from RadioNet, the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance and from the Institute for Astronomy Edinburgh, which have enabled us to waive all workshop registration fees.

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