| Description: | The immense depth and scale of the LOFAR Two Metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) mean that it will be a fantastic dataset for studying the star-formation and black hole accretion histories of the Universe, the formation and evolution of galaxy clusters, magnetic fields and the interstellar medium. However, LoTSS's key scientific goals cannot be achieved using radio data alone.
Alongside the mammoth efforts to reduce the LOFAR data, there has been a parallel effort to combine these unprecedented radio samples with available panchromatic datasets to provide robust optical counterparts, redshift estimates and extract physical properties through the latest techniques for modelling spectral energy distributions (e.g. Calistro Rivera et al. 2017). |
