Astrophysics with E-LOFAR
16 - 19 September 2008, Hamburg, Germany
Organised by Hamburger Sternwarte / German Long-Wavelength Consortium (GLOW)
Session 1: The Capability of LOFAR to study Transient Sources
| GCRT J1745-3009 and what we can learn from numerous nondetections Hanno Spreeuw (University of Amsterdam) |
Session 2: Pulsar Studies with LOFAR
| Pulsar proper motions Joeri van Leeuwen (ASTRON) |
| Investigations of the Individual Pulses of Pulsars at the Decameter Range Oleg Ulyanov (Institute of Radio Astronomy of NASU), V.V. Zakharenko, V.S. Nikolaenko, A.V. Bilous |
| Zebra structure of solar Type IV bursts at frequencies 10-30MHz Vladimir Dorovskyy (Institute of Radio Astronomy of NASU) |
Session 5: Technical and Software Updates
| All Sky Lofar Images using BBS Vishambhar Nath Pandey (Kapteyn Institute, University of Groningen) |
| Characterising the low frequency sky: a VLBA Archive Survey at 327 MHz, searching for E-LOFAR calibrators Hayden Rampadarath (JIVE & Leiden University) |
| Ionospheric parameters from VLSS data Sridharan Rengaswamy (Leiden University/TU Delft) |
| Database Techniques within LOFAR Bart Scheers (University of Amsterdam) |
| Large-scale structure of the Northern sky at decametric waves Michael Sidorchuk (Institute of Radio Astronomy of NASU), Ulyanov O.M., Shepelev V.A., Mukha D.V., Brazhenko A.I., Vashchishin R.V., Frantzusenko A.V. |
| The LOFAR Radio Sky Monitor pipeline John Swinbank (University of Amsterdam) |
| GPS-GLONASS-GALILEO IONOSPHERIC CALIBRATION OF RADIO TELESCOPES AND RADIO INTERFEROMETERS Oleg Ulyanov (Institute of Radio Astronomy of NASU) E.L. Afraimovich (Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Irkutsk) Yu.V. Yasukevich (Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Irkutsk) |
| The LIONS team: understanding and calibrating the ionosphere Ilse van Bemmel (Leiden Observatory) |
Session 6: Cosmic Ray Studies with LOFAR
| Dependence of geosynchrotron radio emission on the energy and depth of maximum of cosmic ray showers Tim Huege (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe) |
| Extended Radio Emission and Cosmic Rays in Low Density Environments Tom Jones (University of Minnesota, Department of Astronomy) |
Session 7: LOFAR Internationalization & E-LOFAR
| Wide band high-efficiency dipole for giant low-frequency array Igor Falkovych (Institute of Radio Astronomy of NASU) |
Session 9: Strategies to study the EoR with LOFAR
| WSRT observations of the FAN region at 150 MHz Gianni Bernardi (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen) |
| EOR in alternative cosmological scenarios Daniela Crociani (Dipartimento di Astronomia, Bologna University) |
| The data model for the EoR experiment Lampropoulos Panos (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute) |
| The collapse of minihalos: 21 cm probe Evgenii Vasiliev (Southern Federal University) |
Session 10: Studying Cosmic Magnetism with LOFAR
| Low Faraday depolarization regions for Galactic magnetic field investigations in the halo. Ettore Carretti (INAF-IRA) |
| Magnetic fields in Late-type Dwarf Galaxies Robert Drzazga (Astronomical Observatory of the Jagiellonian University) |
| Studying cluster magnetic fields Joern Geisbuesch (University of Cambridge) |
| Simulation of the Polarized Sky at 1.4 GHz Shane O'Sullivan (University College Cork) |
Session 13: The Potential of the Imaging Survey Mode of LOFAR
| Prospects for follow-up observations of LOFAR sources Bernd Glinsmann (University of Hamburg/Hamburger Sternwarte) |
| Lens searches: LOFAR and its competition Neal Jackson (University of Manchester) |
Session 14: Clusters and Halos
| The radio signature of cosmic structure formation shocks Matthias Hoeft (Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam) |
| A2255: new results in total intensity and polarization at very low frequency Roberto Francesco Pizzo (Kapteyn Institute) |
| Radio halos around spiral galaxies Marian Soida (Astronomical Observatory of the Jagiellonian University) |
| Diffuse large-scale radio structure Marek Wezgowiec (Obserwatorium Astronomiczne Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego) |
Session 15: Radio Galaxies and AGN
| Strong magnetic spiral pattern in a ringed galaxy NGC4736 Krzysztof T. Chyzy (Astronomical Observatory of the Jagiellonian University) |
| Low frequency radio observations of galaxy groups Simona Giacintucci (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) |
| Relativistic Jets at Low Frequencies Robert Laing (ESO) |
| LOFAR studies of collimated outflows and their effect on galaxy evolution Andrei Lobanov (MPIfR) |
| On the evolution and interaction of FRI jets and intergalactic medium. Manuel Perucho (Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie) |
| AGN-Regulated Cooling and Star Formation in the Cores of Galaxy Clusters David Rafferty (Pennsylvania State University) |
| Disentangling AGN and Star Formation in Deep Extragalactic Surveys Nicholas Seymour (Spitzer Science Center) |
| Study of extragalactic radio sources with new URAN Valeriy Shepelyev (IRA NAS Ukraine) |