In accordance with Bsik guidelines, LOFAR was funded as a multidisciplinary sensor array to facilitate research in geophysics, computer sciences and agriculture as well as astronomy.
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In November 2007 the first international LOFAR station ( " DE601 " ) next to the Effelsberg 100 m radio telescope became the first operational station.
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The university's Center for Information Technology ( CIT ) houses an IBM Target used by the LOFAR project as well as a Virtual Reality and 3D-visualisation center.
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A first step will be a retrospective analysis of the design of the LOFAR and MeerKAT telescopes and development of a design tool to use when designing very large and distributed computers.
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LOFAR consists of a vast array of omnidirectional antennas using a new concept in which the signals from the separate antennas are not combined in real time as they are in most array antennas.
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There are plans upgrade of the East-West arm telescope to a LOFAR SuperStation, due to the good performances of a cylindrical-parabolic antenna in the 100-700 MHz frequency range.
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Since LOFAR operates in the 120-240 MHz range, some of the sensors on the Northern Cross Radio Telescope, optimized for 408 MHz, will have to be replaced with broadband antennas.
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Python-casacore is mainly developed within ATNF and ASTRON for replacing Glish for the Australia Telescope Compact Array, WSRT and LOFAR . CASA also uses these core libraries but not python-casacore.
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Data transport requirements are in the range of several gigabits per second per station and the processing power needed is tens of TeraFLOPS . The data from LOFAR is stored in the LOFAR long-term archive.
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Data transport requirements are in the range of several gigabits per second per station and the processing power needed is tens of TeraFLOPS . The data from LOFAR is stored in the LOFAR long-term archive.
