LOFAR documents
LOFAR related documents. Many have been used in the CDR of May 2007. These documents probably reflect the most up-to-date view of the system, though some parts may have been obsoleted again. many of these documents can also be found in the LOFAR document Server.
General
- LOFAR paper (M. de Vos, A.W. Gunst, & R. Nijboer. “The LOFAR telescope: System Architecture and Signal Processing” in Proceedings of the IEEE, Special Issue “Advances in Radio Telescopes”, Nov 2009)
WAN
Station
CEP
Pipelines
Possible Beam Formed Observing Modes (PDF):
Beam Formed Pipeline Checklist & Planning (EXCEL & PDF):
DataFormats
- Description of the Measurement Set (MS2) format for LOFAR version 2.07.02 (15-09-2011) version 2.07 in use since May 2011
- Description of the Measurement Set (MS2) format for LOFAR version 2.08.01 (04-04-2018) version 2.08 in use since January 2012
- Description of the Measurement Set (MS2) format for LOFAR version 2.09.00 (08-03-2022) version 2.09 in use since October 2022
- Description of Image format for LOFAR version 0.03.00 (24-03-2012) Initial version of LOFAR image format in use since May 2012
- ICD 001 TBB Time Series Updated to version 3.04 to include subband time series (22-11-2018)
- ICD 004 missing
- ICD 007 Visibility Data outdated, use Measurement Set for LOFAR instead
- Raw OLAP data formats (not supported and subject to change)
Document sources:
Archive
- Instructions how to install gLite on Ubuntu and tune the network for GRID access.