Trawling Transients with LOFAR

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The LOFAR radio telescope is a wide-field radio interferometer operating in the 10-240 MHz range, with baselines from 50m to 1000km. It will be a multi-purpose fully open observatory, which will however devote significant time and effort to completing key science projects that drove its design. It has started commissioning operations and is expected to start its first all-sky shallow survey near the end of 2010.
The Transients Key Science Project aims to monitor all LOFAR imaging data streams for transient and variable sources down to 1-sec timescales, and beam-formed (pulsar) data for even shorter events. A special extension to the project, the AARTFAAC experiment, will use the inner 350-m area for all-time all-sky imaging of the radio sky, down to sub-Jy levels. I will report on the current status and first results of LOFAR, and especially the Transients KSP.

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