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 The Committee on Radio Astronomy Frequencies (CRAF) is an Expert Committee of the European Science Foundation (ESF).


Radio astronomy in the Netherlands:


Some details of the Borger-Odoorn/LOFAR radio observatory:

geographic longitude:05o 52'
geographic latitude:52o 55'
altitude above sea level:15 meter
Low Frequency Array (LOFAR): longest baselines up to ~350 km
minimum elevation:

Available observing mode: single dish, array mode.

Frequencies used currently:
Frequency band   Observing mode
10 - 250 MHz   interferometer

Research programs: cosmology (epoch of reionisation, EOR), extra-galactic and galactic research (deep extragalactic surveys, transient sources, ultra high energy cosmic rays, pulsars), geophysics and even precision agriculture.


Last modified: February 10, 2009