LOFAR
The LOw Frequency ARray, LOFAR, is a radio telescope working at the lowest frequencies accessible from Earth. Combining many thousands of simple dipole receivers (just like the one in your radio at home) with the latest in high tech computing, LOFAR will be able to survey wide areas of the sky all at once and will open up a new window for astronomers.
When completed, LOFAR will consist of over 5,000 separate antennas spread in "stations" all over Europe. The main project is based in the Netherlands, and most of the array will be there, but outposts are planned in Germany, France, Sweden, Poland and the UK. Several stations are now working in the Netherlands, and a link-up to the first international station (in Efflesberg, Germany) has been successfully completed.
Locations of possible LOFAR stations:
LOFAR-UK
In the UK, LOFAR-UK is the largest astronomy collaboration in the country, involving scientists from 22 partner universities (Aberystwyth, Birmingham, Cambridge, Cardiff, Durham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hertfordshire, Leicester, Liverpool John Moores, Kent, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Open University, Oxford, Portsmouth, QMUL, Sheffield, Southampton, Sussex, and UCL) as well as STFC/RAL and the UK ATC .
LOFAR-UK Statement on the STFC Science Prioritisation 2010-2015 (which recommended cutting all STFC funding for LOFAR).
