Progress with the LOFAR Imaging Pipeline

Understand

One of the science drivers of the new Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) is large-area surveys of the low-frequency radio sky.

• Realizing this goal requires automated processing of the interferometric data, such that fully calibrated images are produced by the system during survey operations.
• The LOFAR Imaging Pipeline is the tool intended for this purpose, and is now undergoing significant commissioning work.
• The pipeline is now functional as an automated processing chain.