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SUMMARY:LOFAR ERIC Opening Celebration
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UID:indico-event-4@indico.lofar.eu
CONTACT:secretary@lofar.eu
DESCRIPTION:LOFAR ERIC opening celebrationOn 20 December 2023 the European
  Commission adopted the decision to set up LOFAR ERIC. The LOFAR ERIC open
 ing celebration is the festive marking of the start of LOFAR ERIC.  LOFA
 RLOFAR is the largest and most sensitive radio telescope operating at low 
 radio frequencies\, between 10 and 240 MHz. It consists of antenna station
 s geographically distributed across Europe and driven in software by power
 ful station-level computing to produce a highly flexible and agile observi
 ng system. With a sensitivity more than 2 orders of magnitude better than 
 any previous telescope at these frequencies\, unparalleled angular resolut
 ion\, an enormous field of view and multi-beam capabilities\, LOFAR is by 
 far the most powerful 100 MHz telescope on the planet and is revolutionisi
 ng our view of the low-frequency radio universe. LOFAR ERICLOFAR is by it
 s nature a pan-European project\, with 52 antenna stations located across 
 8 European countries: the Netherlands\, Germany\, Poland\, France\, Irelan
 d\, Latvia\, Sweden\, and the United Kingdom. The construction of 2 furthe
 r international stations in Italy and Bulgaria is planned. The long intern
 ational baselines arising from the distributed nature of LOFAR are essenti
 al to provide its unique high angular resolution.LOFAR ERIC will provide a
  coordinating organisation to optimise the joint exploitation and to maxim
 ise the science output of the LOFAR facilities. Importantly\, LOFAR ERIC w
 ill also ensure a united approach to ongoing and future upgrades to the fa
 cility. The staged upgrade called LOFAR2.0 will hugely enhance the capabil
 ities of LOFAR\, particularly at the lowest frequencies. \n\nhttps://indi
 co.lofar.eu/event/4/
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LOCATION:LOFAR Core area and Dwingeloo Headquarters
URL:https://indico.lofar.eu/event/4/
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