LOFAR Observation (MS file) from the Boötes Field and the Toothbrush cluster used in the paper: "Looking beyond pixels with continuous-space EstimAtion of Point sources"

The dataset contains the measurement sets (MS file) of the LOFAR observations from the Boötes field and the Toothbrush cluster. The dataset was used in the experiments of the paper: 

LEAP: Looking beyond pixels with continuous-spaceEstimAtion of Point sources

Pan, H., Simeoni, M., Hurley, P., Blu, T. & Vetterli, M. In: Astronomy & Astrophysics, in press, 2017

The data was provided as a collaboration between ASTRON and IBM within the DOME project. The data was acquired for a LOFAR sky survey of the Boötes field:

LOFAR 150-MHz observations of the Boötes field: Catalogue and Source Counts

Williams, W. L. , Hardcastle, M. J.  & 33 others In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 460, 3, p. 2385–2412

and the Toothbrush cluster (RX J0603.3+4214):

Simulating the toothbrush: evidence for a triple merger of galaxy clusters

Brüggen, M., van Weeren, R. J., Röttgering, H. J. A. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters. 425, 1, p. L76--L80

In case of questions concerning the measurement set, please contact the original authors for details.

We have also included the three catalogs used in the experiments, which are converted from their original FITS table to Numpy arrays:

• skycatalog.npz is the catalog of the Boötes field: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/mnras/stw1056
• TGSSADR1_7sigma_catalog.npz is the TGSS ADR1 source catalog: http://tgssadr.strw.leidenuniv.nl/catalogs/TGSSADR1_7sigma_catalog.fits
• NVSS_CATALOG.npz is the NRAO/VLA Sky Survey: ftp://nvss.cv.nrao.edu/pub/nvss/CATALOG/