Name: LOFAR Family Meeting 2024
Start: 2024-06-03T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-06-07T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Pesthuis Leiden

LOFAR Family Meeting 2024

from Monday, 3 June 2024 (09:00) to Friday, 7 June 2024 (17:00)

Monday, 3 June 2024

11:00 Registration / lunch
Registration / lunch
11:00 - 13:30
Room: Zuid 1
13:30 Welcome: Welcome
Welcome
13:30 - 15:15
Room: Zuid 1
Contributions

13:30 Welcome - Jessica Dempsey Wim van Cappellen

13:40 LOFAR 2.0: running the new observatory - Jessica Dempsey Wim van Cappellen

14:00 LOFAR 2.0: science overview - Jason Hessels (ASTRON & University of Amsterdam)

14:15 SDC operations: achievement, past & future challenges - Roberto Pizzo

14:35 LOFAR2.0 development status and plans - Boudwijn Hut

14:55 SDC Developments towards LOFAR 2.0 - John Swinbank
15:15 coffee / tea
coffee / tea
15:15 - 15:45
Room: Zuid 1
15:45 LOFAR 2.0 Commissioning plan
15:45 - 17:45
Room: Zuid 1
Contributions

15:45 LOFAR 2.0 commissioning areas: status, challenges, plans - Michiel Brentjens (ASTRON)

16:05 Telescope - Cees Bassa (ASTRON)

16:20 Operations - Emanuela Orrù

16:35 Pipelines - Timothy Shimwell et al. (ASTRON)

17:05 Discussion: LOFAR2.0 pipelines roadmap - Timothy Shimwell et al. (ASTRON)
Tuesday, 4 June 2024
09:00 Session: ISM / magnetism / other
ISM / magnetism / other
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Zuid 1
Contributions

09:00 First detections of Carbon Radio Recombination Lines with the NenuFAR telescope - Lucie Cros

09:30 Revealing the Local Bubble and the Complex of Local Interstellar Clouds in the LoTSS-DR2 Faraday tomographic data - Vibor Jelic (Ruder Boskovic Institute)

09:45 ApPolLo - Apertif counterparts of polarised LOFAR sources - Anna Berger

10:00 The ultra-low frequency radio continuum spectra of nearby galaxies - Lovorka Gajović (Universität Hamburg, Hamburger Sternwarte)

10:15 Studying radio galaxies with twisted jets using multifrequency data - Arpita Misra (Jagiellonian University)

10:20 Extend the extragalactic peaked-spectrum sources to 54 megahertz - Sai Zhai (Leiden University)

10:24 Old AGN remnant sculpted by IGM sloshing - Aleksandar Shulevski

10:27 Near-Field Interferometry of Lightning with LOFAR - Paulina Turekova (ASTRON)
10:30 coffee / tea / posters
coffee / tea / posters
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Zuid 1
11:00 Session: CR / lightning / other
CR / lightning / other
11:00 - 12:15
Room: Zuid 1
Contributions

11:00 Detecting cosmic rays with LOFAR - Stijn Buitink

11:30 Measuring high-energy cosmic rays at SKA-Low - Arthur Corstanje (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

11:45 The Initiation of Lightning Dart Leaders with LOFAR - Brian Hare (ASTRON)

12:00 LOFAR cross correlation with eBOSS - Jinglan Zheng
12:15 Group picture
Group picture
12:15 - 12:25
Room: Zuid 1

12:25 Lunch (external)
Lunch (external)
12:25 - 14:00
Room: Zuid 1
14:00 Session: Surveys and Methods (1)
Surveys and Methods (1)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Zuid 1
Contributions

14:00 Low-frequency VLBI with the International LOFAR Telescope - Roland Timmerman

14:30 The high-resolution COSMOS: peering into the unknown with LOFAR and JWST observations - Eleni Vardoulaki (National Observatory of Athens IAASARS/NOA)

14:45 Into the Depths: Unveiling ELAIS-N1 with LOFAR's deepest sub-arcsecond wide-field images - Jurjen de Jong (Leiden Observatory)

15:00 HETDEX-LOFAR Spectroscopic Redshift Catalog - Maya Debski (University of Texas at Austin)

15:15 Cosmology from LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey Data Release 2: Counts-in-Cells statistics - Morteza Pashapour-Ahmadabadi (University Bielefeld)

15:19 Tracking travelling ionospheric disturbances in the mid-latitude ionosphere from Poland to the North Sea with LOFAR. - Gareth Dorrian (University of Birmingham)

15:22 Radial variation of anisotropic density turbulence from the low corona to 1au and solar radio observations - Eduard Kontar
15:30 coffee / tea / posters
coffee / tea / posters
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Zuid 1
16:00 Session: Surveys and Methods (2)
Surveys and Methods (2)
16:00 - 17:45
Room: Zuid 1
Contributions

16:00 Ultra-low frequencies with LOFAR: status and plans - Francesco de Gasperin (IRA INAF)

16:30 The awakening of the WEAVE-LOFAR survey - Anniek Gloudemans (NSF’s NOIRLab)

16:45 The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey - Timothy Shimwell (ASTRON)

17:00 The LOFAR LBA Virgo Cluster Survey - Henrik Edler (University of Hamburg)

17:15 A cautionary tale about pipelines - Frits Sweijen (Durham University)
Wednesday, 5 June 2024
09:00 Session: Galaxy Clusters (1)
Galaxy Clusters (1)
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Zuid 1
Contributions

09:00 Optical identifications in LoTSS DR2: from Citizens to Science - Martin Hardcastle (University of Hertfordshire, UK)

09:15 Galaxy clusters at LOFAR's turning point: lessons learned and open questions - Andrea Botteon

09:45 LOFAR-CHEXMATE study of radio halo clusters - Marco Balboni (DiSAT Insubria - IASF Milan)

10:00 Decameter observations of Galaxy Clusters - Christian Groeneveld (Leiden Observatory)

10:15 Can we use LOFAR to estimate SFR of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies? - KATARZYNA MALEK (National Centre for Nuclear Research, Poland)

10:19 Bridging the Gap: From UV/IR to Radio in Infrared Bright galaxies via SED Modeling and Radio SFR Calibration - Subhrata Dey (Jagiellonian University)

10:23 The influence of the ionosphere visible in the dynamic spectra of pulsars observed with PL612 LOFAR station - Leszek Błaszkiewicz (Space RadioDiagnostic Research Centre, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland)

10:27 LOFAR-BG – the South-easternmost station of LOFAR ERIC: status update - Antoaneta Antonova (Institute of Astronomy and National Astronomical Observatory, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
10:30 coffee / tea / poster
coffee / tea / poster
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Zuid 1
11:00 Session: Galaxy Clusters (2), Planets (1)
Galaxy Clusters (2), Planets (1)
11:00 - 12:15
Room: Zuid 1
Contributions

11:00 Tracing large-scale gas outflows from spiral galaxies in clusters with LOFAR - Alessandro Ignesti (INAF-Padova)

11:15 The high resolution view of radio phoenices - Nadia Biava (Thüringer Landessternwarte (TLS))

11:30 The age of filaments - Marcus Brüggen (Uni Hamburg)

11:45 A periodic radio transient found with LOFAR - Iris de Ruiter (University of Amsterdam/Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy)
12:15 Lunch (Pesthuis)
Lunch (Pesthuis)
12:15 - 13:30
Room: Zuid 1
13:30 Session: Planets (2), Transients and Pulsars (1)
Planets (2), Transients and Pulsars (1)
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Zuid 1
Contributions

13:30 Catching the wisps: constraining mass-loss rates of cool stars at low frequencies - Sanne Bloot (ASTRON, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute)

13:45 Hide and seek: Using LOFAR to hunt for hot Jupiters at decameter wavelengths - Cristina-Maria Cordun (ASTRON)

14:00 The collaboration between the University of Warmia and Mazury and the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center: A significant milestone in our endeavor to conduct high-resolution mapping of compact galaxies utilizing the LOFAR-VLBI pipeline. - Aleksandra Wołowska (University of Warmia and Mazury) Mateusz Olech (Space RadioDiagnostic Research Centre, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland)

14:15 Fast transients < 300 MHz

14:45 Galaxy groups at the lowest frequencies: a combined LOFAR-uGMRT view of A1213 - Thomas Pasini (Istituto di Radioastronomia IRA-INAF)

14:49 Title: Thermal and non-thermal emission in merging galaxy groups NGC7618/UGC12491 - Davide Matteo Brustio (University of Bologna)

14:53 Unveiling the fine structure details of the radio relics in MACS J1752.0+4440 - Maicol Della Chiesa (UNIBO)
15:00 Coffee / tea / posters
Coffee / tea / posters
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Zuid 1
15:30 Session: Transients and Pulsars (2)
Transients and Pulsars (2)
15:30 - 16:45
Room: Zuid 1
Contributions

15:30 Invited talk - planets - Joe Callingham

16:00 Pulsar Timing Arrays -- The impact of LOFAR and NenuFAR - Caterina Tiburzi (INAF-OAC)

16:15 The Crab Nebula - Maria Arias (Leiden Observatory)

16:30 EuroFlash: a commensal fast transient search machine for LOFAR2.0 - Jason Hessels (ASTRON & University of Amsterdam)
17:30 Evening session: Boat tour and conference dinner
Boat tour and conference dinner
17:30 - 22:30
Room: Zuid 1
Thursday, 6 June 2024
09:00 Session: Sun and Space Weather (1)
Sun and Space Weather (1)
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Zuid 1
Contributions

09:00 Solar research with LOFAR telescope - Bartosz Dąbrowski

09:30 Observations and simulations of the shortest solar radio bursts with LOFAR - Daniel Clarkson (University of Glasgow)

09:45 Evolution of fundamental and harmonic sources in LOFAR type III radio burst images - Christian Vocks (Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP))

10:00 Ionospheric irregularities assesed throught LOFAR and GNSS observations - Andrzej Krankowski (University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn)

10:15 Observing the Sky with a Single LOFAR Station: Impact of Ionosphere on Position Measurements and Observation of related ionospheric structures - Dorota Przepiórka-Skup (Centrum Badań Kosmicznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk)
10:30 Coffee / tea / posters
Coffee / tea / posters
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Zuid 1
11:00 Session: Sun and Space Weather (2), Cosmology (1)
Sun and Space Weather (2), Cosmology (1)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Zuid 1
Contributions

11:00 LOFAR observations of highly defined symmetric quasi-periodic ionospheric scintillations - Hannah Trigg (University of Birmingham)

11:15 Modeling and experimental investigations for Modern Radio-Diagnostics of the Ionosphere using LOFAR and GNSS Data - Yuriy Rapoport (University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn)

11:30 Radio eyes for the Sun, Heliosphere and Ionosphere: Status and plans for the LOFAR2.0 era. - Pietro Zucca (ASTRON - Netherlands Institute for radio astronomy)

11:45 Cosmological studies with LOFAR surveys - Catherine Hale

12:15 The Cosmic Radio Dipole: Bayesian multi-survey estimation - Lukas Böhme (Bielefeld University)
12:30 Lunch (external)
Lunch (external)
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Zuid 1
14:00 Session: Cosmology, EoR (2)
Cosmology, EoR (2)
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Zuid 1
Contributions

14:00 Observing the 21-cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization and the Cosmic Dawn - Kariuki Chege

14:30 Advanced modeling of bright radio sources for LOFAR 21-cm power spectrum analysis: the Cygnus A and 3C196 cases - Emilio Ceccotti (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute)

14:45 Beyond Just Beam Error: Direction-Dependent Calibration Challenges Far from the Phase Center - Stefanie Brackenhoff (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute)
15:00 Coffee / tea / poster
Coffee / tea / poster
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Zuid 1
15:30 Session: LOFAR ERIC Celebration
LOFAR ERIC Celebration
15:30 - 16:30
Room: Zuid 1
Contributions

15:30 The LOFAR Family on a roll; the role of the ILT - René Vermeulen

15:50 The LOFAR ERIC - Jacqueline Mout
17:00 Evening session: Reception at the city hall (Stadhuisplein 1)
Reception at the city hall (Stadhuisplein 1)
17:00 - 19:00
Room: Zuid 1
Friday, 7 June 2024
09:30 Session: Galaxy Clusters (2), Other
Galaxy Clusters (2), Other
09:30 - 10:30
Room: Zuid 1
Contributions

09:30 Intercontinental decametric VLBI - Olaf Wucknitz (Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie)

09:45 Unintended electromagnetic radiation from satellite constellations - Cees Bassa (ASTRON)

10:00 A view on cluster-scale diffuse radio emission at high redshift - Gabriella di Gennaro
10:30 Coffee / tea / posters
Coffee / tea / posters
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Zuid 1
11:00 Session: AGN (1)
AGN (1)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Zuid 1
Contributions

11:00 AGN through the eyes of the LOw Frequency ARray - Emmy Escott

11:30 The LOFAR-eFEDS survey: The incidence of radio and X-ray AGN - Zsofi Igo (MPE)

11:45 The Mass Assembly and Quenching of Radio AGN Host Galaxies - Gaoxiang Jin (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)

12:00 New constraints on the contribution of star formation and AGN activity in quasar radio emission from the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey - Bohan Yue (University of Edinburgh)

12:15 High-resolution low-frequency probes of X-ray emitting knots in blazar jets - Hrishikesh Shetgaonkar (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg)
12:30 Lunch (Pesthuis)
Lunch (Pesthuis)
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Zuid 1
13:30 Session: AGN (2)
AGN (2)
13:30 - 14:45
Room: Zuid 1
Contributions

13:30 Revealing the sub-arcsecond nature of radio galaxies in Abell 2255 - Emanuele De Rubeis (Università di Bologna (UNIBO) & Istituto di Radioastronomia (INAF-IRA))

13:45 Multi-frequency mapping and analysis of the largest giant radio galaxies - Sagar Sethi (Astronomical Observatory of the Jagiellonian University)

14:00 LOFAR Legacy 58 MHz Survey of the 3CRR Catalogue - Jort Boxelaar (INAF - IRA)

14:15 Probing the Evolution of Radio Quasar Morphologies Across Cosmic Time with LoTSS - Pratik Dabhade (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC, Spain))

14:30 A statistical study of the most extreme star factories and gorging black holes - Ismail Eissa (University of Groningen)
14:45 Session: Closing
Closing
14:45 - 15:00
Room: Zuid 1
Contributions

14:45 Closing - Roberto Pizzo

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