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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 2.07.01 (19-04-2011) version currently being implemented (19-04-2011)
- Raw OLAP data formats (not supported and subject to change)
Archive
- Instructions how to install gLite on Ubuntu and tune the network for GRID access.