As human activity is slowing all around the world, NenuFAR keeps observing. Over three days mid-March, we pointed the telescope toward 3C196, one of the main target fields of the LOFAR-EoR project. These observations which are part of stage 1 of our project were done to look at the impact of foregrounds and instrumental response to the power-spectra relative to what we observe on our main target field, the North Celestial Pole. The data was quickly processed and we produced wide-field images covering the full 30-85 MHz bandwidth. For each of these images, we accumulated about 7 hours of observation. The dashed black circle shows the full-width at half maximum of the instrument’s primary beam (note the changing field of view for each panel). We will now consolidate these results and compare them to our NCP observations.

Credit : Florent Mertens