22 February 2021
Not stars, but 25,000 supermassive black holes!
...FM radio band starts at about 90 MHz, so to take observations below this frequency, scientists using LOFAR have to use the array’s Low-band Antennas (LBAs). LBAs are a subsystem of LOFAR and look like poles (called dipoles) sticking out of the ground...
17 February 2020
Earth-sized planet behind unusual star signals say astronomers
... planets in the daytime using only the naked eye. But now a new technique that used the Low-Frequency Array, or LOFAR – a vast radio telescope network spread out over Europe – to pick-up radio emission from a nearby red dwarf...
May 2020
Protecting areas of scientific importance on the Moon
... these regions to mining concerns. LOFAR low band antennas - part of an array located in the Netherlands. So Shackleton is a potential site for a Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) which could operate within the 0.1-30 MHz Low Band Antennas (LBAs) waveband...
