The cluster of excellence Bavarian “Universe” joined the German consortium for the GLOW LOFAR telescope

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At the last meeting of the consortium GLOW (German Long Wavelength Consortium) on 3 July 2009, the cluster of excellence "Origin and Structure of the Universe" from the Technical University of Munich has officially joined the German group for the LOFAR telescope ( Low Frequency Array for Radio Astronomy). In this way, researchers in the cluster to integrate their research work in the observations of LOFAR and benefit from global infrastructure. Members are the astronomical institutes of the universities of Bochum, Bonn and Cologne, the Max Planck Institute for Radio

Astronomy in Bonn, the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Jacob, University of Bremen, Hamburg Observatory the Research Center Jülich (FZJ), Astrophysical Institute Potsdam Observatory Tautenburg in Thuringia. Within Excellence Cluster Universe, researchers focus on the development of galaxies and black holes billions of years. Using the radio telescope LOFAR, the researchers will explore unknown terrain, since the frequency range, between 30 and 250 MHz, has never been exploited. Membership has GLOW allows us to observe an area of the universe that has not yet been fully explored," says astrophysicist Dr. Andrea Merloni, on the initiative of joining GLOW. The field of low frequency of the telescope can detect cosmic magnetic fields in the Milky Way, in galaxies, in galactic and stellar jets and at black holes and planets of other solar systems. Partner institutions LOFAR are responding to questions concerning the origin of galaxies and black holes. At the end of the test phase, the initial results will be delivered once all the European networks of antennas will be placed in service. The core of these networks is Exloo in West Friesland (Netherlands). 54 stations are divided into a spiral shape on the Netherlands. LOFAR stations are also located in Germany, Great Britain, France, Italy and Sweden, to achieve an angular resolution of more than one second of arc. Four tests are currently Effelsberg, Tautenburg, Potsdam and Unterweilenbach. A degree is subdivided into 60 minutes of arc (or "prime), themselves divided into 60 seconds of arc (or" double prime)

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