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© Fotos: Menno Norden, Henri Meulman
The Low Band Antenna (LBA) system of this station showed for the first time a spectrum from the entire band as received by the 96 antenae. It was an impressive clean spectrum too.
On the picture left, an LBA all-sky image at 40 MHz is shown in which the Milky Way and CasA can be seen. This image by Menno Norden, was created a few days after 1st light during the Site Acceptance Test (SAT) of the station.
On the picture right, the roll-out team from I-LOFAR is showing the plot as received for the first time. This team for more than six weeks has built-up the Irish LOFAR Telescope literally from the bottom starting to fill the trenches with many kilometers of coaxial cables, assembling over 32 thousand pieces of EPS parts forming the High Band antennae and finally placing all the LBA antennae including heavy weight groundplanes on their final destinations. Picture on the right, below is showing the newly built station under a perfect blue sky and located at the premises of Birr Castle, Co. Offaly. Respect to this I-LOFAR team for building up this station!
Our commission team Menno Norden, Henri Meulman en Klaas Stuurwold now are continuing to bring-up the high-speed data connection and the High Band antenna system.
Station IE613 is from the I-LOFAR consortium (consisting of following universities and institutes: TCD, Armagh, UCD, DCU, UCC, NUIG, DIAS and AIT).
Congratulations to the entire I-LOFAR crew for achieving this great result!
