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

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astro-ph.IM2016

Characterising radio telescope software with the Workload Characterisation Framework

Y. G. Grange, R. Lakhoo, M. Petschow +6

We present a modular framework, the Workload Characterisation Framework (WCF), that is developed to reproducibly obtain, store and compare key characteristics of radio astronomy pr…

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.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…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 185 cited

LOFAR, VLA, and Chandra observations of the Toothbrush galaxy cluster

R. J. van Weeren, G. Brunetti, M. Brüggen +39

We present deep LOFAR observations between 120-181 MHz of the "Toothbrush" (RX J0603.3+4214), a cluster that contains one of the brightest radio relic sources known. Our LOFAR obse…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 282 cited

LOFAR facet calibration

R. J. van Weeren, W. L. Williams, M. J. Hardcastle +39

LOFAR, the Low-Frequency Array, is a powerful new radio telescope operating between 10 and 240 MHz. LOFAR allows detailed sensitive high-resolution studies of the low-frequency rad…