High-resolution observations at long wavelengths: First results from international LOFAR

Talk in the splinter meeting The Radio Sky: LOFAR to SKA at the AG annual meeting in Bonn, 14 Sep 2010

O. Wucknitz

  1. Argelander-Institut für Astronomie, Auf dem Hügel 71, 53121 Bonn, Germany

Abstract

LOFAR for the first time offers the possibility to image the radio sky at wavelengths of a few metres with a resolution in the arcsec range or better. This is made possible by international stations that provide baselines of several hundred km and even more in the future.
In this talk I give an overview of first high-resolution observations using the International LOFAR Telescope and discuss the particular challenges of long-baseline LOFAR observations.




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