The LOFAR long baseline snapshot calibrator survey

2014/11/11 by J. Moldón, A. T. Deller, Adam T. Deller +107 · 38 citations
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Baseline (sea) #Computer science #Detector #Environmental science #Geography #Geology #LOFAR #Optics #Physics #Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology #Radio Wave Propagation Studies #Radio telescope #Remote sensing #Sampling (signal processing) #Sky #Snapshot (computer storage) #USable #astro-ph.IM

paper · pdf · doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201425042

published in Astronomy and Astrophysics 574, A73 (EDP Sciences) · 13 pages, 9 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics

arxiv created 2014/11/11 · openalex publication_date 2014/12/08 · arxiv updated 2015/01/28 · openalex created_date 2020/11/23 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06

Abstract

Aims. An efficient means of locating calibrator sources for international LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) is developed and used to determine the average density of usable calibrator sources on the sky for subarcsecond observations at 140 MHz.

Citations

• The NRAO VLA Sky Survey

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