Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, the discoverer of ‘pulsars’, was recently inaugurated as Pro-Chancellor of the University of Dublin. As a research student in Cambridge in 1967, she detected unusual radio pulses coming from beyond the solar system and helped identify the pulses as emanating from rapidly spinning, super-dense, collapsed stars, subsequently named ‘pulsars’. Her landmark […]
Astronomers have produced one of the best images ever made at the lowest frequencies of giant bubbles produce by super-massive black holes. Click on the following image for the full article:
The ground planes for the LBA Test Array arrived at Birr Castle and were placed on the site roughly were the LBA’s will be located. The ground planes are 3 x 3 metres in dimensions with a spacing of 15 cm and serve as a reflector for low frequency radio waves.
The following site was chosen to host the four LOFAR LBA antenna elements which will be set up and texted starting from January 2013. The site is located in the Rosse Observatory in Birr, Co. Offaly (www.rosseobservatory.ie). The I-LOFAR test array will test the capabilities of the LBA antenna elements individually and also linked together. […]
The Science Squad on RTE TV takes an entertaining look at some of the exciting and important scientific research that is currently underway in Ireland. From social networking to rugby tackle analysis and from health care monitoring to air travel, our presenters Aoibhinn Ni Shuilleabhain, Kathriona Devereux and Jonathan McCrea travel the country to meet […]
Dermot Desmond, the Irish financier and philanthropist, has become the first person to become a Founding Member of I-LOFAR. He was quickly followed by generous donations from Denis O’Brien and Joe Hogan. “This is a great start for the project” according to Dr. Peter Gallagher, who is leading the Irish LOFAR consortium. “We can now […]
A brochure describing the I-LOFAR project is now available for download form the project website. Click on the image below to download a copy. Ireland requires EUR 1.5 million to build a LOFAR station in Ireland and join the International LOFAR network of radio telescope. This is a great opportunity for Ireland to engage in […]
Congratulations to I-LOFAR consortium member, Prof. George Miley, who has just been named a Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion. George was instrumental in conceiving of and setting up the International LOFAR Telescope network, and has been a continuous supported of I-LOFAR. Well done George! Check out the article George’s award in the Irish […]
Members of the I-LOFAR consortium visited the international LOFAR station in Potsdam in March 2012. We took lots of photos and notes during the site visit, which we have included in the following summary document. During the visit, we discussed practical issues associated with leveling the ground, drainage, fibre costs, site installation time-scales, and annual running […]
Scientists from the International LOFAR Telescope (ILT) today announced the kick-off of the project’s first all-sky survey at low radio frequencies and its first open call for observing proposals from the international astronomical community. LOFAR, the Low Frequency Array, is an innovative radio telescope built in the Netherlands and across northern Europe. LOFAR will make […]