Future investigations of GPS and CSS radio sources with LOFAR
Journal article, 2009

In the next few years, the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) will open up one of the last astronomically unexplored wavelength regimes. While the LOFAR core is currently being erected in the Netherlands, its outer stations will cover a large part of Europe, resulting in an unprecedented angular resolution at > meter wavelengths. Next to many other exciting scientific endeavours, LOFAR will be the first instrument to probe the low frequency spectra of Gigahertz Peaked Spectrum (GPS) and Compact Steep Spectrum (CSS) radio sources. It will give new insights into their absorption processes, and probe associated extended emission (possibly linked to earlier epochs of activity) in these enigmatic class of young active galactic nuclei. Furthermore, LOFAR will be sensitive to possibly the most distant GPS and CSS sources, of which their spectral turnovers have redshifted down to the lowest observable radio frequencies.

Author

I. Snellen

Leiden University

H.J.A. Rottgering

Leiden University

P. D. Barthel

University of Groningen

P.N. Best

University of Edinburgh

M. Brüggen

Jacobs University Bremen

John Conway

Chalmers, Department of Radio and Space Science, Radio Astronomy and Astrophysics

M.J. Jarvis

University of Hertfordshire

M. Lehnert

Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)

G. Miley

Leiden University

R. Morganti

University of Groningen

Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON)

Astronomische Nachrichten

0004-6337 (ISSN) 1521-3994 (eISSN)

Vol. 330 2-3 297-300

Subject Categories

Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

DOI

10.1002/asna.200811180

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