26–28 May 2025
Fletcher Landgoed Hotel Holthurnsche Hof
Europe/Amsterdam timezone

Pushing LOFAR to its limits with ultra-deep, high-resolution, wide-field imaging

28 May 2025, 16:30
15m
Fletcher Landgoed Hotel Holthurnsche Hof

Fletcher Landgoed Hotel Holthurnsche Hof

Zevenheuvelenweg 48A, 6571 CK Berg en Dal

Speaker

Jurjen de Jong

Description

Recently, we have with LOFAR successfully imaged several deep fields at sub-arcsecond resolutions (e.g. Lockman Hole, ELAIS-N1, and Boötes), revealing the distant universe below 200 MHz in unprecedented detail. However, this has come at the expense of significant computing resources and extensive manual intervention, making it unsustainable for large-scale surveys or ultra-deep wide-field imaging. In this talk, I will discuss recent progress in developing the LOFAR VLBI pipeline for wide-field imaging, techniques to reduce the computational costs by up to a factor of 10 for ultra-deep imaging, and replacing manual interventions with automation and AI, making us ready for the LOFAR 2.0 era.

Talk category NOVA Network 1
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