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New data release of Apertif
© Free We released a continuum mosaic image of a 26.5 square degrees region in the Boötes constellation obtained with Apertif at 1.4 GHz. We used a newly developed processing pipeline that includes...
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The MICADO atmospheric dispersion corrector
© Joost van den Born Atmospheric dispersion, the wavelength dependent differential refraction of light passing through the atmosphere, will cause severe degradation of image quality and contrast on the...
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See the new LOFAR crew..!
© ASTRON To create some attractive pictures for new leaflets about Working at ASTRON, we headed out to the LOFAR core on a nice sunny day and took some action pictures. The idea was to show some...
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SDC community day 2023
© 2023, Janneke de Boer On the 23th of May, most of people involved in the SDC programme came physically together for the first ever SDC community day. We started the day with an overview of the SDC...
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JIVE hosts the third CASA VLBI workshop
© Ilse van Bemmel Where do you go when you want to learn the fine art of calibrating very long baseline interferometry observations? You join the CASA VLBI workshop! The third edition of this event...
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ASTRON at Alles Kids Festival in Emmen
© ASTRON On 17 and 18 June we were a guest at the annual Alles Kids Festival in Emmen, by invitation of the NWA. Part of our invitation was that we were allowed to develop a new set-up for our Open...
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Colloquium: Cosmos and Canvas: Using Data Visualization to Explore and...
© NRAO, NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & Text: Jayanne English (U. Manitoba) Data visualizations that resonate with human perception strongly enhance discovery-based science. Examples include...
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Oratie Prof. dr. Marijke Haverkorn
© Haverkorn/RUN Marijke Haverkorn, who worked in the ASTRON Astronomy Group from 2008-2011, recently held her "oratie" (inaugural lecture) entitled "Orde en Chaos: het ecosysteem van de Melkweg" at the...
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Rainbow reaches its 1000th ticket
© CC BY-NC Team Rainbow is the team that is tasked with developing the services for the Science Data Centre (SDC). As an Agile development team, we develop iteratively and each self-contained amount of...
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Colloquium: The cold molecular medium around high-redshift radio galaxies:...
© Bjorn Emonts The cold circumgalactic medium is an elusive but critical component in the evolution of distant galaxies. In a cosmic tale of Spiderwebs, Anthills, and Dragonflies, I will present what...
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Pulsar clocks open new window on gravitational waves
© Daniëlle Futselaar/MPIfR/artsource.nl An international collaboration of European astronomers, together with Indian and Japanese colleagues, have seen evidence for ultra-low-frequency gravitational...
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SRCnet team Tangerine at SKAO HQ
© 2023, Janneke de Boer The SRCnet (SKA Regional Centre Network) will develop the network of nodes needed to support the data access of the SKA, several teams have been set up to build prototypes for...
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ASTRON Bike To Work Day(s) 2023
© Participants B2WD23 Spring marks the end of hibernation for animals and humans alike. To get in the rhythm of going outside again, and to offer a low-barrier way to incorporate exercise into our...
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LOFAR Family Meeting 2023
© UWM, Irene Bonati The 2023 edition of the LOFAR Family Meeting took place on 12-16 June in Olsztyn (Poland). Hosted by the University of Warmia and Mazury, the event gathered ~150 LOFAR community...
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Colloquium: Observables for moving, extremely charged and massive primordial...
© Jenny Wagner Stupendously large primordial black holes (PBHs) with masses of more than 10^11 solar masses have only recently become an interesting field of study. In this talk, I will extend this...
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Kerastari meeting 2023
© NA On behalf of (in the image from the left) Pikky Atri, Benito Marcote, Shivani Bhandari, Emma van der Wateren, Kaustubh Rajwade and Willem Baan.Last week (12th-17th June), a few of us from ASTRON...
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Apertif Fast Radio Bursts: From sketch to movie
© JvL In April we announced the first Fast Radio Bursts that Apertif discovered, in a paper in A&A. As that is the kind of result that deserves dissemination to a wider audience we prepared text...
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The workshop group working together
© public domain The use of automated processes in software development and maintenance are becoming increasingly important. No matter if it is testing, linting, packaging or deploying most of these...
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KHMW Prize for Dr. Katharine Mulrey
© Hessels/ASTRON Katharine Mulrey, Katie, is an Assistant Professor of Astrophysics at the Radboud University Nijmegen. On July 6th, 2023 she received the Langerhuizen Bate prize for her project...
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Tour around the garden
© Arno Schoenmakers On 19, 21, and 29 June, Nils van Ligten from Klavertje Vier gave a tour (in Dutch) around our garden, where he showed and taught us very interesting things about trying to establish...
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