LOFAR-BG

LOFAR

The LOFAR telescope, originally developed in the Netherlands, is managed by the Netherlands Institute of Radio Astronomy – ASTRON. It is an advanced, pan-European, distributed, low-frequency radio telescope, consisting of separate observing stations with dipole antenna arrays. The signals from each individual antenna in every station are added into observing ‘beams’, electronically steered in any desired direction of the Northern sky.

LOFAR offers unique observing capabilities for studying astrophysical and geophysical phenomena in the near and distant Universe. Our goal is to develop national capabilities for observation, processing, and analysis of LOFAR data, as well as to build and develop a Bulgarian LOFAR station.

LOFAR-BG is part of the National Roadmap for Scientific Infrastructure (2020-2027), coordinated by the Ministry of Education and Science of Bulgaria (contracts D01-389/18.12.2020 and D01-177/29.07.2022).

Currently, the members of the national consortium are the Institute of Astronomy and National Astronomical Observatory (IANAO) ,   the Dept. of Astronomy of Sofia University, the Dept. of Astronomy of Shumen University, as well as the Dept. of Radio Communication and Video Technologies of the Technical University-Sofia 

LOFAR-BG main website 

LOFAR ERIC main web site

ASTRON NL main site