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Table 2
Overview of LOFAR system parameters.
| System characteristic | Options | Values | Comments |
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| Frequency range | Low-band Antenna | 10–90 MHz | |
| 30–90 MHz | With analog filter | ||
| High-band Antenna | 110–190 MHz | 200 MHz sampling (2nd Nyquist zone) | |
| 170–230 MHz | 160 MHz sampling (3rd Nyquist zone) | ||
| 210–250 MHz | 200 MHz sampling (3rd Nyquist zone) | ||
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| Number of polarizations | 2 | ||
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| Bandwidth | Default | 48 MHz | 16-bit mode |
| Maximum | 96 MHz | 8-bit mode | |
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| Number of simultaneous beams | Minimum | 1 | |
| Maximum | 244 | 16 bit mode, one per sub-band | |
| Maximum | 488 | 8 bit mode, one per sub-band | |
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| Sample bit depth | 12 | ||
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| Sample rate | Mode 1 | 160 MHz | |
| Mode 2 | 200 MHz | ||
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| Beamformer spectral resolution | Mode 1 | 156 kHz | |
| Mode 2 | 195 kHz | ||
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| Channel width | Mode 1 | 610 Hz | |
| (raw correlator resolution) | Mode 2 | 763 Hz | |
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