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18-12-2014
Successful hand-over of the new International LOFAR station Norderstedt
| Submitter: | Ronald Halfwerk |
| Description: | The latest International LOFAR station, located at Norderstedt, close to the city of Hamburg, was handed-over successfully on December 16th by AstroTec Holding BV to its new owners: The universities of Hamburg and Bielefeld. After careful site-selection by the universities, and receiving the building permits, the entire station was built and validated in a mere month and a half. Good team work proves its value again. Although the station is still in the process of validation and calibration, it has already received two stars: the precious LOFAR hardware ("made by ASTRON") in the EMC-container is now kept safe by the strongest available 2-star graded German-made padlock, including two custom-made "Norderstedt key-labels". The new LOFAR station will be used by researchers at the University of Hamburg, led by Prof. Marcus Brueggen, who specializes in studying the formation and evolution of clusters of galaxies from the early Universe to the present era. A group of researchers at Bielefeld University, led by Prof Dominik Schwarz, studies the distribution of galaxies on the largest observable distances in the Universe, which carry imprints from the era of cosmological inflation. |
| Copyright: | Pictures: Dieter Engels, Ronald Halfwerk |
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