22 February 2021
Not stars, but 25,000 supermassive black holes!
... 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 which are...
May 2020
Protecting areas of scientific importance on the Moon
... 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. These antennas (see image at right) could be adapted to a lightweight form...
