LOFAR Takes The Long View Across Borders

An international group of astronomers have succeeded in the first joint observations between the LOFAR stations in Exloo (The Netherlands) and Effelsberg (Germany). This constitutes the "first light" of the LOFAR telescope as an international array. The bright quasar 3C 196, located almost ten billion light years away from Earth, was detected successfully on 2009 August 20 providing first "interferometric fringes", equivalent to the "first light" for an ordinary telescope.

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