Observations of Pulsars with LOFAR

Leszek Błaszkiewicz, Wojciech Lewandowski, Andrzej Krankowski, Jarosław Kijak and Bartosz P. Dąbrowski

LOFAR (LOw Frequency ARray) is a new generation, digitally controlled radio telescope consisting of phased array antenna stations with sensitivity, bandwidth, range of frequency, and digital processing power that makes it an excellent tool for the observations of pulsars. This interferometric instrument is able to work in single-station mode as well as in group-of-selected-stations mode. This proeceeding discusses discusses the great opportunity offered by the three LOFAR stations located in Poland and maintained by the POLFAR consortium1 for conducting unique and independent research of pulsar sources.

Proceedings of the Polish Astronomical Society, vol. 3, 143-145 (2016)

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