© Henrik Edler

This first wide-field image with the LOFAR 2.0 low-band antenna (LBA) system shows the ELAIS N1 field. We carried out a comparison with a LOFAR 1 observation of the same target field, that was matched in terms of stations, observing time and bandwidth. We confirm that the LOFAR 2 LBA system reaches the targeted factor two increase in sensitivity. In fact, in our test it even slightly surpasses this, likely due to different ionospheric conditions.

Both images were fully calibrated for direction-dependent effects using the LiLF pipeline.