Author :
Vermeulen, Rene C.
Author_Institution :
ASTRON, P.O. Box 2, NL-7990 AA Dwingeloo, The Netherlands
Abstract :
Recent astronomical and technical highlights, current activities, and future plans of the International LOFAR Telescope (ILT) will be summarized. During URSI GASS 2014 the ILT will be calling for Cycle 3 proposals, which will have 20% of time awarded under fully Open Skies conditions, for a broad range of available observing modes, which will be summarized. The report will cover the new GPU correlator/beamformer, and ongoing augmentation of the dynamic range for wide-field imaging and the responsiveness for transient events. The international collaboration in the ILT Board is expanding; exciting developments related to European LOFAR station construction will be mentioned.
Keywords :
Abstracts; Correlators; Dynamic range; Graphics processing units; Imaging; Proposals; Telescopes;
Conference_Titel :
General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (URSI GASS), 2014 XXXIth URSI
Conference_Location :
Beijing, China
DOI :
10.1109/URSIGASS.2014.6929983
