Astronomy
Initiatiefnemer: Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON)
Dit project wordt medegefinancierd door de Europese Gemeenschap, Europees Fonds voor Regionale Ontwikkeling en het Samenwerkingsverband Noord Nederland, EZ/KOMPAS.
Organization
Organisation
The LOFAR Transients KSP has a three tiers of involvement.The three PIs of the project form the uppermost tier:
Rob Fender (Universites of Southampton and Amsterdam) r.fender at soton.ac.uk
Ben Stappers (University of Manchester) ben.stappers at manchester.ac.uk
Ralph Wijers (University of Amsterdam) r.a.m.j.wijers at uva.nl
The middle tier of the project comprises the council of the KSP, comprising the PIs, the leaders of the working groups plus some other representatives. The third tier comprises associate members who will generally be directly associated with someone in the first two tiers, and who are performing some specific role. The overall structure is summarized in the figure below:
LOFAR started as a new and innovative effort to force a breakthrough in sensitivity for astronomical observations at radio-frequencies below 250 MHz.