Advances in Radio Science www.adv-radio-sci.net 1684-9965 1684-9973 5 Kleinheubacher Berichte 2006 2007 10.5194/ars-5-407-2007 http://www.adv-radio-sci.net/5/407/2007/ http://www.adv-radio-sci.net/5/407/2007/ars-5-407-2007.html http://www.adv-radio-sci.net/5/407/2007/ars-5-407-2007.pdf 407 412 2007-06-13 LOFAR in Germany W. Reich wreich@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, 53121 Bonn, Germany The LOw Frequency ARray – LOFAR – is a new fully digital radio telescope designed for frequencies between 30 MHz and 240 MHz centered in the Netherlands. In May 2006 ten German institutes formed the German LOng Wavelength consortium – GLOW – to coordinate its contributions and scientific interests to the LOFAR project. The first LOFAR station CS1 was installed in summer 2006 near Exloo/Netherlands. The second station IS-G1 is presently been placed in the immediate vicinity of the Effelsberg 100-m radio telescope near Bad Münstereifel/Germany. This contribution briefly describes the basic properties and aims of LOFAR, the aims of the GLOW consortium and the actual activities to install a LOFAR station at the Effelsberg site. % vor jede Referenz Beck, R.: Sterne und Weltraum, 9, 22–33, 2006. % vor jede Referenz Beck, R. and Reich, W.: Sterne und Weltraum, 9, 19–21, 2006. Bregmann, J. D.: in Proc. SPIE Vol. 4015, Radio Telescopes, edited by: Butcher, H. R., 19–32, 2000. % vor jede Referenz Brüggen, M., Beck, R., and Falcke, H.: Reviews of Modern Astronomy, 19, 277–292, 2006. Falcke, H., van Haarlem, M. P., de Bruyn, A. G. et al.: in: Highlights of Astronomy, 14, XXVth IAU General Assembly, edited by van der Hucht, K. A., 119–120, 2006.