TY  - CONF
AU  - Drabent, Alexander
AU  - Hoeft, Matthias
AU  - Mechev, Alex B.
AU  - Oonk, J. B. Raymond
AU  - Shimwell, Timothy W.
AU  - Sweijen, Frits
AU  - Danezi, Anatoli
AU  - Schrijvers, Coen
AU  - Manzano, Cristina
AU  - Tsigenov, Oleg
AU  - Dettmar, Ralf-Jürgen
AU  - Brüggen, Marcus
AU  - Schwarz, Dominik J.
TI  - Realising the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey
VL  - 50
CY  - Jülich
PB  - Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Zentralbibliothek, Verlag
M1  - FZJ-2020-01416
T2  - Publication Series of the John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC) NIC Series
SP  - 113 - 122
PY  - 2020
AB  - The new generation of high-resolution broad-band radio telescopes, like the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), produces, depending on the level of compression, between 1 to 10 TB of data per hour after correlation. Such a large amount of scientific data demand powerful computing resources and efficient data handling strategies to be mastered. The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) is a Key Science Project (KSP) of the LOFAR telescope. It aims to map the entire northern hemisphere at unprecedented sensitivity and resolution. The survey consist of 3 168 pointings, requiring about 30 PBytes of storage space. As a member of the German Long Wavelength Consortium (GLOW) the Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ) stores in the Long Term Archive (LTA) about 50% of all LoTSS observations conducted to date. In collaboration with SURFsara in Amsterdam we developed service tools that enables the KSP to process LOFAR data stored in the LTA at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) in an automated and robust fashion. Through our system more than 500 out of 800 existing LoTSS observationshave already been processed with the prefactor pipeline. This pipeline calibrates the direction-independent instrumental and ionospheric effects and furthermore reduces the data size significantly. For continuum imaging, this processing pipeline is the standard pipeline that is executed before more advanced processing and image reconstruction methods are applied.
T2  - NIC Symposium 2020
CY  - 27 Feb 2020 - 28 Feb 2020, Jülich (Germany)
Y2  - 27 Feb 2020 - 28 Feb 2020
M2  - Jülich, Germany
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)8 ; PUB:(DE-HGF)7
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/874406
ER  -