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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.

LOFAR ADD
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)
LOFAR System Requirements (SRS-001)

LOFAR WAN ADD

Possible Beam Formed Observing Modes (PDF):

Beam Formed Pipeline Checklist & Planning (EXCEL & PDF):

Description of the Measurement Set (MS2) format for LOFAR 0.5 (Feb 2008)
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 Image format for LOFAR version 0.03.00 (24-03-2012) Initial version of LOFAR image format in use since May 2012
Description of the LOFAR local parameter and source table formats
GIT repository for Interface control documents for LOFAR data products
ICD 001 TBB Time Series Updated to version 3.04 to include subband time series (22-11-2018)
ICD 002 World Coordinates
ICD 003 Beamformed Data
ICD 004 missing
ICD 005 Naming Conventions
ICD 006 Dynamic Spectrum Data
ICD 007 Visibility Data outdated, use Measurement Set for LOFAR instead
ICD 008 Rotation Measurement Synthesis Cubes
Raw OLAP data formats (not supported and subject to change)

LOFAR Archive and Reprocessing Requirements
Instructions how to install gLite on Ubuntu and tune the network for GRID access.

Last modified: 2020-04-08 11:29
by Jan David Mol