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First simultaneous LBA and HBA all-sky images with LOFAR2.0!
© Cees Bassa, Boudewijn Hut, Paulus Kruger, Jan David Mol, Menno Norden, Jun Wang After the rollout of the latest version of the LOFAR2.0 hardware to the LOFAR2.0 Test Station (L2TS) earlier this...
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Choco-bursts!
© Hessels/ASTRON Back in 2018, UvA/ASTRON postdoc Anne Archibald prepared some 3D printable files to visualise some of our Arecibo data on the first-known repeating fast radio burst (FRB) source, FRB...
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Public lectures at Open Science Hub
© Frank Nuijens/Mischa Brendel On August 3rd, we held our first of what in total will be five public lectures (in Dutch) at the Planedome, the new home of our Open Science Hub â Milky Way. Despite...
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Spatio-temporal correlators for lightning physics
© CC-BY-NC-SA In this summer student project, we aimed to formulate an algorithm for the automated extraction of physically meaningful lightning structures, which could enable large-scale statistical...
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A novel radio imaging method for physical spectral index modelling
© CC In collaboration with several ASTRON scientists, Emilio Ceccotti, who is a PhD student at the University of Groningen, published his first paper. The paper describes a technique to model radio...
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Behind the scnene of Klaas kan alles
© Fanna Lautenbach For an episode of the children's tv show 'Klaas kan alles' on the KRO-NRCV, they wanted to send a message into space and we helped them out! Here are some 'behind the scenes' shots.
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New maintenance engineers
© none Last week two new engineers started at the Maintenance department.They have already mastered a lot in a very short time and are proving to be a great addition to our team, both professionally...
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Arecibo Observatory closes science operations - at least for the time being
© Hessels/Venkataraman After 60 years on sky, and a Noble prize, the Arecibo Observatory closed in August 2023 as a facility for active scientific research. It will continue as an educational centre at...
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Summer project: Holographic station calibration for LOFAR LBA
© CC-BY-SA-NC Phased array antennas such as those used in LOFAR consist of multiple antenna elements working together by adjusting the phase and amplitude of each antenna signal and summing them to...
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Astrophysics of Fast Radio Bursts II
© Jason Hessels From September 11 - 13, 2023, the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Astrophysics hosted a second workshop on fast radio bursts (FRBs) - the previous one being in 2020. The...
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Colloquium: An updated mass-radius analysis of the 2017-2018 NICER data set...
© Serena Vinciguerra In 2019 the NICER collaboration published the first mass and radius inferred for PSR J0030+0451, thanks to NICER observations, and consequent constraints on the equation of state...
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SRCnet Tangerine planning at IAA
© Janneke de Boer SKA regional center (SRC) team Tangerine came together to plan for the upcoming PI. We co-located with the in Granada located team Coral, who focus on integration several prototyping...
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Worskhop Vilten
© - The photo shows one of the results of the felting workshop on 21 September 2023. During this PV workshop we learned to make 3-D felted objects (flowers and others). We used wool, silk, water and...
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Open dag 2023
© ASTRON/LofarTafel Komende zondag houden we weer open dag. Dit keer niet in Dwingeloo, maar bij onze LOFAR-superterp in Buinen, nabij Exloo.We organiseren de open dag dit jaar samen met Stichting...
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A happy little magnetar
© Hessels After a long week of spinning around, this happy little magnetar enjoyed the Weekend van de Wetenschap (Weekend of Science) with his Knutselpulsar (Craft Pulsar) buddies. Finally a chance to...
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A wonderful open day at the LOFAR superterp
© Ronald Halfwerk/Mischa Brendel Last Sunday's open day was a great success! Despite the remote location, around 1,200 (!) visitors managed to find the LOFAR superterp, where we, together with...
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Seeing the trees through the forest
© Ould-Boukattine & Hewitt In a recent paper, Dense forests of microshots in bursts from FRB 20220912A (Hewitt et al. 2023, MNRAS, 526, 2039) we used a single Westerbork dish (RT1) together with...
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SD Day 2023
© Tom Kamphuis/ Fanna Lautenbach On Thursday, the 12th of October, the Software Delivery group came together at the Holtingerveld to share some results achieved this year, look into next year, and...
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Luminous LOFAR compact radio sources in low mass galaxies
© D. Vohl In a recent paper (Vohl et al. 2023, A&A, in press), we identify a set of compact radio sources from the second data release of the LOFAR Two Meter Sky Survey (LoTSS, Shimwell et al....
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Cleaning the Superterp
© Janssen, Mulder, Bassa On Friday, October 6th a group of ASTRON/JIVE volunteers went to the LOFAR Superterp to clean the LBA antennas from weeds and nettles. A couple of weeks earlier some disturbing...
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