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Annotated data of simultaneous broadband radio and optical emission of meteor trains imaged by LOFAR / AARTFAAC and CAMS

This data set contains simultaneous 30 - 60 MHz LOFAR / AARTFAAC12 radio observations and CAMS low-light video observations of +4 to -10 magnitude meteors at the peak of the Perseid meteor shower on August 12/13, 2020. 204 meteor trains were imaged in both the radio and optical domain.

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Animated plots of the spectrum and polarisation of Cassiopeia A based on a 24 hour observation with LOFAR Station IE613

This collection of animated plots over time of the variation in channel flux for the linear polarisation channels XX, XY and YY and Stokes Parameters U, V, I and Q against frequency for Cassiopeia A as observed at LOFAR station IE613 between 2018-03-16 and 2018-03-17 using the HBA

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Animated plots of the spectrum and polarisation of Cassiopeia A based on a 24 hour observation with LOFAR Station SE607

This is a collection of animated plots over time of the variation in channel flux for the linear polarisation channels XX, XY and YY and Stokes Parameters U, V, I and Q against frequency for Cassiopeia A as observed at LOFAR station SE607 between 2018-03-16 and 2018-03-17 using the HBA

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Animated plots of the spectrum and polarisation of Cassiopeia A based on a 24 hour observation with LOFAR Station SE607

This collection of animated plots over time of the variation in channel flux for the linear polarisation channels XX, XY and YY and Stokes Parameters U, V, I and Q against frequency for Cassiopeia A as observed at LOFAR station SE607 between 2018-03-16 and 2018-03-17 using the HBA

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Thunderstorm charge distribution determination using cosmic rays induced air showers and lightning imaging at LOFAR

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LOFAR IE613/DE604/FR606 Observations of Io-Decametric Radio Emissions on 8 June 2021

This dataset contains observations of the Jovian decametric radio emission induced by Io, measured on 8 June 2021 with the DE604, FR606 and IE613 LOFAR stations, and used in the Louis et al., 2022 (RASTI journal) paper (doi: TBA). The first file (IE613_Jupiter_2021-06-08T040000-070000_84msec_12khz.fil) contains the data at a resolution of ~83.9 msec by ~12.2 kHz, from 04:00:00 UTC to 07:00:00 UTC and in the [7.8 - 55.5] MHz range. The second file (IE613_Jupiter_2021-06-08T051030-051040_fullres_82musec_12khz.fil) contains 10 seconds of the above data (05:10:30 UTC to 05:10:40 UTC) at the highest resolution (81.92μsec by ~12.2 kHz). The third file (FR606_Jupiter_2021-06-08T051030-051040_fullres_82musec_12khz.fil) contains the same 10 seconds than the above file (05:10:30 UTC to 05:10:40 UTC) observed by the Nançay FR606 LOFAR station, at the highest resolution (81.92μsec by ~12.2 kHz) The fourth file (DE604_Jupiter_2021-06-08T051030-051040_fullres_82musec_12khz.fil) contains the same 10 seconds than the two above files (05:10:30 UTC to 05:10:40 UTC) observed by the Postdam DE604 LOFAR station, at the highest resolution (81.92μsec by ~12.2 kHz) These files can be read and processed using the python plot_raw_data.py routine (Louis, 2022, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6470741)

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AGN Feedback in the Survey era: Insights into large samples of Clusters and Groups through LOFAR, MeerKAT and eROSITA

In the last two decades, significant improvements have been made in the understanding of how AGN feedback operates in galaxy clusters. However, the vast majority of these studies involved observations of small samples,  mostly lying in the high mass (M> 5 x 10^14 Msun) regime. We will present recent works in which we make use of survey observations performed by VLA, LOFAR and MeerKAT in the radio band, as well as eROSITA, Chandra and XMM-Newton in the X-rays, to investigate AGN feedback on the macro scale in large (N>200) samples of galaxy clusters and groups, down to masses of 2 x 10^13 Msun. We find a close relation between the X-ray emission -estimated within the whole cluster/group extent- and the radio emission produced by the central AGN. Statistical tests show that this correlation is not dominated by biases or selection effects. After converting the radio power into kinetic luminosity, we find an even tighter relation which seemingly exists for both disturbed and relaxed objects. Exploiting a subsample composed by COSMOS spectroscopic galaxy members, we find that Brightest Cluster Galaxies hosting strong AGN radio emission always lie within 0.2 virial radii from the cluster centre, and that there is an higher probability of stronger AGN being hosted in more massive systems. All these observations support the  picture of a strong connection between the ICM and radio galaxies hosted in BCGs, which is also predicted by Chaotic Cold Accretion (CCA) models.

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LOFAR 3C295 Field 34-MHz Source Catalog

This table contains the source list from Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) Low Band observations of the 3C 295 field at 34 MHz. The image of this field made at 34 MHz reaches a noise level of 12 mJy beam-1, making it the deepest image ever obtained at this frequency. In total, the authors detect 392 sources in the 3C 295 34-MHz field image, covering an area of 52.3 square degrees out to a primary-beam attenuation factor of 0.4. From these and simultaneous observations made at other low-band frequencies, the authors derive Euclidean-normalized differential source counts. The 62-MHz source counts agree with previous GMRT 153 MHz and Very Large Array 74 MHz differential source counts, scaling with a spectral index of -0.7. The authors find that a spectral index scaling of -0.5 is required to match up the LOFAR 34 MHz source counts. This result is also in agreement with source counts from the 38 MHz 8C survey, indicating that the average spectral index of radio sources flattens toward lower frequencies. The authors also find evidence for spectral flattening using the individual flux measurements of sources between 34 and 1400 MHz and by calculating the spectral index averaged over the source population. To select ultra-steep spectrum (alpha < -1.1) radio sources that could be associated with massive high-redshift radio galaxies, the authors compute spectral indices between 62 MHz, 153 MHz, and 1.4 GHz for sources in the Bootes field. They cross-correlate these radio sources with optical and infrared catalogs and fit the spectral energy distribution to obtain photometric redshifts. They find that most of these ultra-steep spectrum sources are located in the 0.7 <~ z <~ 2.5 range. The Bootes and 3C 295 fields were simultaneously observed on 2012 April 12 as part of a multi-beam observation with the LOFAR LBA stations. The idea behind the multi-beam setup was to use the 3C 295 observations as a calibrator field to transfer the gain amplitudes to the (target) Bootes field. The pointing center of the 3C 295 field was J2000.0 RA, Dec = 14h 11m 20.9s, +52o 13' 55". The total integration time on both fields was 10.25 hr. The '34-MHz' observing band for the 3C 295 field observations was from 30 - 40 MHz, with 21 sub-bands more or less evenly distributed within this frequency range, with a total bandwidth of 4.1 MHz. The synthesized beam for this observation had dimensions of 56 arcseconds x 30 arcseconds. An overview of the observations is given in Table 1 of the reference paper, and an overview of the image characteristics in Table 2 of the reference paper. This table was created by the HEASARC in January 2015 based on some of the contents of the machine-readable version of Table 3 from the reference paper, namely the 392 entries listing sources in the 3C 295 field detected at 34 MHz. The remaining entries in this table listing the sources detected in the Bootes field at a frequency of 62 MHz. and the sources detected in the 3C295 field at frequencies of 46 and 62 MHz, are available as the HEASARC tables LOFARBF62M, LOF3C29546 and LOF3C29562, respectively. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

LOFAR 2-Meter Sky Survey Preliminary Data Release Source Catalog

The Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) is a deep 120-168 MHz imaging survey that will eventually cover the entire Northern sky. Each of the 3,170 pointings will be observed for 8 hours, which, at most declinations, is sufficient to produce ~5-arcsec resolution images with a sensitivity of ~0.1 mJy/beam and accomplish the main scientific aims of the survey which are to explore the formation and evolution of massive black holes, galaxies, clusters of galaxies and large-scale structure. Due to the compact core and long baselines of LOFAR, the images provide excellent sensitivity to both highly extended and compact emission. For legacy value, the data are archived at high spectral and time resolution to facilitate sub-arcsecond imaging and spectral line studies. In this paper, The authors provide an overview of the LoTSS. They outline the survey strategy, the observational status, the current calibration techniques, a preliminary data release, and the anticipated scientific impact. The preliminary images that they have released were created using a fully-automated but direction-independent calibration strategy and are significantly more sensitive than those produced by any existing large-area low-frequency survey. In excess of 44,000 sources are detected in the images that have a resolution of 25-arcseconds, typical noise levels of less than 0.5 mJy/beam, and cover an area of 381 square degrees in the region of the HETDEX Spring Field (Right Ascension 10h 45m 00s to 15h 30^m ^00s and Declination +45o 00' 00" to +57o 00' 00"). Source detection on the mosaics that are centered on each pointing was performed with PyBDSM (See <a href="http://www.astron.nl/citt/pybdsm/">http://www.astron.nl/citt/pybdsm/</a> for more details). In an effort to minimize contamination from artifacts, the catalog was created using a conservative 7-sigma detection threshold. Furthermore, as the artifacts are predominantly in regions surrounding bright sources, the authors utilized the PyBDSM functionality to decrease the size of the box used to calculate the local noise when close to bright sources, which has the effect of increasing the estimated noise level in these regions. Their catalogs from each mosaic are merged to create a final catalogue of the entire HETDEX Spring Field region. During this process, the authors remove multiple entries for sources by only keeping sources that are detected in the mosaic centered on the pointing to which the source is closest to the center. In the catalog, they provide the type of source, for which they used PyBDSM to distinguish isolated compact sources, large complex sources, and sources that are within an island of emission that contains multiple sources. In addition, they attempted to distinguish between sources that are resolved and unresolved in their images. The authors have provided a preliminary data release from the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS). This release contains 44,500 sources which were detected with a signal in excess of seven times the local noise in their 25" resolution images. The noise varies across the surveyed region but is typically below 0.5 mJy/beam and the authors estimate the catalog to be 90% complete for sources with flux densities in excess of 3.9 mJy/beam. This table was created by the HEASARC in February 2017 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/598/A104">CDS Catalog J/A+A/598/A104</a> file lotss.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

LOFAR 3C295 Field 46-MHz Source Catalog

This table contains the source list from Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) Low Band observations of the 3C 295 field at 46 MHz. The image of this field made at 46 MHz reaches a noise level of 8 mJy beam-1, making it the deepest image ever obtained at this frequency. In total, the authors detect 367 sources in the 3C 295 46-MHz field image, covering an area of 30.5 square degrees out to a primary-beam attenuation factor of 0.4. From these and simultaneous observations made at other low-band frequencies, the authors derive Euclidean-normalized differential source counts. The 62-MHz source counts agree with previous GMRT 153 MHz and Very Large Array 74 MHz differential source counts, scaling with a spectral index of -0.7. The authors find that a spectral index scaling of -0.5 is required to match up the LOFAR 34 MHz source counts. This result is also in agreement with source counts from the 38 MHz 8C survey, indicating that the average spectral index of radio sources flattens toward lower frequencies. The authors also find evidence for spectral flattening using the individual flux measurements of sources between 34 and 1400 MHz and by calculating the spectral index averaged over the source population. To select ultra-steep spectrum (alpha < -1.1) radio sources that could be associated with massive high-redshift radio galaxies, the authors compute spectral indices between 62 MHz, 153 MHz, and 1.4 GHz for sources in the Bootes field. They cross-correlate these radio sources with optical and infrared catalogs and fit the spectral energy distribution to obtain photometric redshifts. They find that most of these ultra-steep spectrum sources are located in the 0.7 <~ z <~ 2.5 range. The Bootes and 3C 295 fields were simultaneously observed on 2012 April 12 as part of a multi-beam observation with the LOFAR LBA stations. The idea behind the multi-beam setup was to use the 3C 295 observations as a calibrator field to transfer the gain amplitudes to the (target) Bootes field. The pointing center of the 3C 295 field was J2000.0 RA, Dec = 14h 11m 20.9s, +52o 13' 55". The total integration time on both fields was 10.25 hr. The '46-MHz' observing band for the 3C 295 field observations was from 40 - 54 MHz, with 25 sub-bands more or less evenly distributed within this frequency range, with a total bandwidth of 4.9 MHz. The synthesized beam for this observation had dimensions of 40 arcseconds x 24 arcseconds. An overview of the observations is given in Table 1 of the reference paper, and an overview of the image characteristics in Table 2 of the reference paper. This table was created by the HEASARC in January 2015 based on some of the contents of the machine-readable version of Table 3 from the reference paper, namely the 367 entries listing sources in the 3C 295 field detected at 46 MHz. The remaining entries in this table listing the sources detected in the Bootes field at a frequency of 62 MHz. and the sources detected in the 3C295 field at frequencies of 34 and 62 MHz, are available as the HEASARC tables LOFARBF62M, LOF3C29534 and LOF3C29562, respectively. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

LOFAR 3C295 Field 62-MHz Source Catalog

This table contains the source list from Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) Low Band observations of the 3C 295 field at 62 MHz. The images of this field and the Bootes field made at 62 MHz reach a noise level of 5 mJy beam-1, making them the deepest images ever obtained at this frequency. In total, the authors detect 329 sources in the 3C 295 62-MHz field image, covering an area of 17.0 square degrees out to a primary-beam attenuation factor of 0.4. From the observations, the authors derive Euclidean-normalized differential source counts. The 62-MHz source counts agree with previous GMRT 153 MHz and Very Large Array 74 MHz differential source counts, scaling with a spectral index of -0.7. The authors find that a spectral index scaling of -0.5 is required to match up the LOFAR 34 MHz source counts. This result is also in agreement with source counts from the 38 MHz 8C survey, indicating that the average spectral index of radio sources flattens toward lower frequencies. The authors also find evidence for spectral flattening using the individual flux measurements of sources between 34 and 1400 MHz and by calculating the spectral index averaged over the source population. To select ultra-steep spectrum (alpha < -1.1) radio sources that could be associated with massive high-redshift radio galaxies, the authors compute spectral indices between 62 MHz, 153 MHz, and 1.4 GHz for sources in the Bootes field. They cross-correlate these radio sources with optical and infrared catalogs and fit the spectral energy distribution to obtain photometric redshifts. They find that most of these ultra-steep spectrum sources are located in the 0.7 <~ z <~ 2.5 range. The Bootes and 3C 295 fields were simultaneously observed on 2012 April 12 as part of a multi-beam observation with the LOFAR LBA stations. The idea behind the multi-beam setup was to use the 3C 295 observations as a calibrator field to transfer the gain amplitudes to the (target) Bootes field. The pointing center of the 3C 295 field was J2000.0 RA, Dec = 14h 11m 20.9s, +52o 13' 55". The total integration time on both fields was 10.25 hr. The observing band for the 3C 295 field 62-MHz observations was 54 - 70 MHz, was centered at 62 MHz, with a full coverage bandwidth of 16 MHz. The synthesized beam for this observation had dimensions of 29 arcseconds x 18 arcseconds. An overview of the observations is given in Table 1 of the reference paper, and an overview of the image characteristics in Table 2 of the reference paper. This table was created by the HEASARC in January 2015 based on some of the contents of the machine-readable version of Table 3 from the reference paper, namely the 329 entries listing sources in the 3C 295 field detected at 62 MHz. The remaining entries in this table listing the sources detected in the Bootes field at a frequency of 62 MHz. and the sources detected in the 3C295 field at frequencies of 34 and 46 MHz, are available as the HEASARC tables LOFARBF62M, LOF3C29534 and LOF3C29546, respectively. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

LOFAR Radio Catalog of Herschel-ATLAS North Galactic Pole Field

This table contains some of the results of Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) High-Band Array (HBA) observations of the Herschel-ATLAS North Galactic Pole (NGP) survey area. The survey the authors carried out, consisting of four pointings covering around 142 deg2 of sky in the frequency range 126-173 MHz, does not provide uniform noise coverage but otherwise is representative of the quality of data to be expected in the planned LOFAR wide-area surveys, and has been reduced using recently developed 'facet calibration' methods at a resolution approaching the full resolution of the data sets (~10 x 6 arcsec) and an rms off-source noise that ranges from 100 µJy beam-1 in the center of the best fields to around 2 mJy/beam at the furthest extent of their imaging. In the reference paper, the authors describe the imaging, cataloguing and source identification processes, and present some initial science results based on a 5-sigma source catalog. These include (i) an initial look at the radio/far-infrared correlation at 150 MHz, showing that many Herschel sources are not yet detected by LOFAR; (ii) number counts at 150 MHz, including, for the first time, observational constraints on the numbers of star-forming galaxies; (iii) the 150-MHz luminosity functions for active and star-forming galaxies, which agree well with determinations at higher frequencies at low redshift, and show strong redshift evolution of the star-forming population; and (iv) some discussion of the implications of these observations for studies of radio galaxy life cycles. The NGP field was observed in four separate pointings, chosen to maximize the area of sky covered, with the LOFAR HBA as part of the Surveys Key Science project. These observations used the HBA_DUAL_INNER mode, meaning that the station beams of core and remote stations roughly matched each other and giving the widest possible field of view. The first observation, which was made early on in LOFAR operations, was of slightly longer duration (~10 h) than the others (~8 h). International stations were included in some of the observations in 2014 but were not used in any of the authors' analysis, which uses only the Dutch array. The author were interested in imaging in several separate frequency ranges (which are referred to hereafter as 'spectral windows'), since they wanted to be able to measure in-band spectral indices for detected sources. In addition, facet calibrating in different spectral windows could be done in parallel, speeding the processing up considerably. Accordingly, they chose to facet calibrate with six spectral windows, each made up of four bands and thus containing about 8 MHz of bandwidth: <pre> Spectral Nominal Frequency Frequency Range Window (MHz) (MHz) 1 130 126 - 134 2 138 134 - 142 3 146 142 - 150 4 154 150 - 158 5 161 158 - 166 6 169 166 - 173 </pre> The final source catalog was made by combining the four per-field catalogs. Ideally, the authors would have combined the images of each field and done source finding on a mosaicked image, but this proved computationally intractable given the very large image cubes that result from having six spectral windows. They therefore merged the catalogs by identifying the areas of sky where there is overlap between the fields and choosing those sources which are measured from the region with the best rms values. This should ensure that there are no duplicate sources in the final catalog. The final master catalogue contains 17,132 sources and is derived from images covering a total of 142.7 deg2 of independently imaged sky, with widely varying sensitivity. Total HBA-band (150-MHz) flux densities of catalogued sources detected using the PYBDSM software and a 5-sigma detection threshold range from a few hundred µJy to 20 Jy, with a median of 10 mJy. The authors examined all sources in the initial master catalog for associations with sources in other surveys, for rejection as artifacts, and for optical identifications, as described in detail in Section 3.5 of the reference paper. The final outcomes of this process were (a) an associated, artifact-free catalog of 15,292 sources, all of which the authors believe to be real physical objects which is contained in the present HEASARC table, and (b) a catalog of 6,227 objects with plausible, single optical identifications with Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) sources, representing an identification fraction of just over 40 per cent. (Note that around 50 sources with more than one equally plausible optical identification are excluded from this catalog; further observation would be required to disambiguate these sources). This table was created by the HEASARC in April 2018, based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/MNRAS/462/1910">CDS Catalog J/MNRAS/462/1910</a> file tablea1.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

LOFAR Bootes Field 62-MHz Source Catalog

This table contains the source list from Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) Low Band observations of the Bootes field at 62 MHz. The images of this field and the 3C 295 field made at 62 MHz reach a noise level of 5 mJy beam-1, making them the deepest images ever obtained at this frequency. In total, the authors detect 329 sources in the Bootes 62-MHz field image, covering an area of 19.4 square degrees out to a primary-beam attenuation factor of 0.4. From the observations, the authors derive Euclidean-normalized differential source counts. The 62-MHz source counts agree with previous GMRT 153 MHz and Very Large Array 74 MHz differential source counts, scaling with a spectral index of -0.7. The authors find that a spectral index scaling of -0.5 is required to match up the LOFAR 34 MHz source counts. This result is also in agreement with source counts from the 38 MHz 8C survey, indicating that the average spectral index of radio sources flattens toward lower frequencies. The authors also find evidence for spectral flattening using the individual flux measurements of sources between 34 and 1400 MHz and by calculating the spectral index averaged over the source population. To select ultra-steep spectrum (alpha < -1.1) radio sources that could be associated with massive high-redshift radio galaxies, the authors compute spectral indices between 62 MHz, 153 MHz, and 1.4 GHz for sources in the Bootes field. They cross-correlate these radio sources with optical and infrared catalogs and fit the spectral energy distribution to obtain photometric redshifts. They find that most of these ultra-steep spectrum sources are located in the 0.7 <~ z <~ 2.5 range. The Bootes and 3C 295 fields were simultaneously observed on 2012 April 12 as part of a multi-beam observation with the LOFAR LBA stations. The idea behind the multi-beam setup was to use the 3C 295 observations as a calibrator field to transfer the gain amplitudes to the (target) Bootes field (pointing center of J2000.0 RA and Dec of 14h 32m 03.0s, +34o 16' 33"). The total integration time on both fields was 10.25 hr. The observing band for the Bootes field observations was centered at 62 MHz, with a bandwidth of 16 MHz. The synthesized beam for this observation had dimensions of 31 arcseconds x 19 arcseconds. An overview of the observations is given in Table 1 of the reference paper, and an overview of the image characteristics in Table 2 of the reference paper. This table was created by the HEASARC in January 2015 based on some of the contents of the machine-readable version of Table 3 from the reference paper, namely the 329 entries listing sources in the Bootes field detected at 62 MHz. The remaining entries in this table listing the sources detected in the 3C295 field at frequencies of 34, 46 and 62 MHz are available as the HEASARC tables LOF3C29534, LOF3C29546 and LOF3C29562, respectively. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .