REPORT LOFAR Scientific Applications Summary author document version date page M.P. van Haarlem Report ASTRON-LOFAR-00230 1.00 07-03-01 1 of 1 This document contains a description of the Science Case for the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) ­ an advanced digital radio telescope that will operate in the frequency range from ~10 to ~250 MHz. The instrument will be developed by ASTRON (Dwingeloo, The Netherlands) and the Astronomical Community in the Netherlands, MIT/Haystack Observatory (W estford MA, US) and the