LOFAR: First of a new generation of radio telescopes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5489, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 537-544

  Butcher, H R ^a  

^a ASTRON   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aperture array; Cosmic rays; Low frequency; Radio telescope; Software telescope

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COSMIC RAYS; MAGNETIC FLUX; PRODUCT DESIGN; RADIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

APERTURE ARRAYS; DISTRIBUTED DATABASES; RADIO TELESCOPE; SOFTWARE TELESCOPE;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 10444276523     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.548806     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (8)

1. The Allen Telescope Array, described at URL: http://www.seti.org/seti/our_projects/allen_telescope_array/
2. Y. Chikada, ëCorrelators for Interferometry Today and Tomorrowí, presented in the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, vol. 19, Radio Interferometry: Theory, Techniques, and Applications, eds Comwell and Perley, 1991.
3. The BlueGene project is described at URL: http://www.research.ibm.com/bluegene/
4. The PVSS-II system is described at the web site: http://www.pvss.com/
5. Why PVSS-II was chosen for the LHC and for CERN projects in general is described at URL: http://www.manufacturing.net/ctl/article/CA206047/
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7. J.E. Noordam, ëPeeling the Visibility Onion: the optimum way of Self-Calibrationi, internal project memo, LOFAR-ASTRON-MEM-078, 17 March, 2003; see presentation by Noordam at this symposium.
8. The aips++ system is described at URL: http://www.astron.nl/aips++/docs/user/Refman/Refman.html