Data usage policy

Papers making use of this data should include the following acknowledgement:

This work makes use of data from the Apertif system installed at the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope owned by ASTRON. ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, is an institute of the Dutch Research Council (“De Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, NWO).

In addition, they should include the Apertif DR1 PID:

http://hdl.handle.net/21.12136/B014022C-978B-40F6-96C6-1A3B1F4A3DB0

and cite the imaging survey data release paper. This is not yet available but should be soon. Until then, it can be referenced as:

Adams, E. A. K., et al. “First release of Apertif imaging survey data”, in prep.