The German Long Wavelength Consortium

For more than 10 years, an international team of researchers observed the northern hemisphere with the radio telescope LOFAR. Among those researchers were members from the universities of Hamburg, Bielefeld, Bochum, and Würzburg, as well as the Thuringian State Observatory Tautenburg and the Jülich Sumpercomputing Centre. The observational data of this sky survey has now been made available, and results were published in the scientific journal „Astronomy & Astrophysics“. The survey encompasses 13.7 million cosmic radio sources and thereby provides the most comprehensive inventory of active galaxies to date. 

Read more:

Full press release here (in German).

Survey Website.

Publication in „Astronomy & Astrophysics“.

The 8th LOFAR Data School (LDS2026) will take place at ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (Dwingeloo, The Netherlands) between 16-23 September, 2026. The goal of the school is to assist the participants in the generation and analysis of LOFAR science ready data. The school will cover the major calibration data techniques for processing interferometric and beamformed observations. Parallel sessions will focus on the analysis of interferometric and tied array data based on the most common science cases addressed by LOFAR data (e.g. wide field imaging and imaging of extended faint sources, extraction of polarized emission, search for exoplanets, analysis of solar emission, ionospheric science, pulsar and high time variability analysis etc). An overview of the LOFAR2.0 upgrade will be presented and attention will be given to the opportunities this new facility opens up. Note that registration to the school is on a first come - first serve basis, since the number of participants is limited. If you have any question(s) or need further clarification, you may contact the organisers via This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..