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most citedFirst Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole in the Center of the Milky Way

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astro-ph.IM2016★ 17 cited

MANTIS: The Mid-Frequency Aperture Array Transient and Intensity-Mapping System

W. A. van Cappellen, M. Santos, J. P. Macquart +14

The objective of this paper is to present the main characteristics of a wide-field MFAA precursor that we envisage to be built at the SKA site in South Africa. Known as MANTIS (the…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 16 cited

The WEAVE-LOFAR Survey

D. J. B. Smith, P. N. Best, K. J. Duncan +27

In these proceedings we highlight the primary scientific goals and design of the WEAVE-LOFAR survey, which will use the new WEAVE spectrograph on the 4.2m William Herschel Telescop…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 654 cited

The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey - I. Survey Description and Preliminary Data Release

T. W. Shimwell, H. J. A. Röttgering, P. N. Best +69

The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) is a deep 120-168 MHz imaging survey that will eventually cover the entire Northern sky. Each of the 3170 pointings will be observed for 8 hr…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 74 cited

LBCS: the LOFAR Long-Baseline Calibrator Survey

N. Jackson, A. Tagore, A. Deller +76

(abridged). We outline LBCS (the LOFAR Long-Baseline Calibrator Survey), whose aim is to identify sources suitable for calibrating the highest-resolution observations made with the…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 97 cited

The Lockman Hole project: LOFAR observations and spectral index properties of low-frequency radio sources

E. K. Mahony, R. Morganti, I. Prandoni +21

The Lockman Hole is a well-studied extragalactic field with extensive multi-band ancillary data covering a wide range in frequency, essential for characterising the physical and ev…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 166 cited

BlackHoleCam: fundamental physics of the Galactic center

C. Goddi, H. Falcke, M. Kramer +36

Einstein's General Theory of Relativity (GR) successfully describes gravity. The most fundamental predictions of GR are black holes (BHs), but in spite of many convincing BH candid…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 250 cited

LOFAR 150-MHz observations of the Boötes field: Catalogue and Source Counts

W. L. Williams, R. J. van Weeren, H. J. A. Röttgering +32

We present the first wide area (19 deg), deep ( μJy beam), high resolution ( arcsec) LOFAR High Band Antenna image of the Boötes field ma…