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Inflatable Antenna
© Niels Vertegaal On Wednesday 6 December, an high altitude balloon experiment was performed for an inflatable antenna in space. It was launched at 11:00 in Wales and landed safely at 13:30 on the East...
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TMSS User Manual
© CC-BY-SA 4.0 (Credit: Noa Peters, Adam Parkosidis, Sander ter Veen, Aleksandar Shulevski, SDCO team) The Telescope Management Specification System (TMSS) application has entered production since the...
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Radio bursts from Jupiter as seen with the LOFAR2.0 Test Station
© Cees Bassa, on behalf of the LOFAR2.0 AIVV team The LOFAR2.0 hardware in CS001 - the LOFAR2.0 Test Station (L2TS) - is being put through its paces to validate its operational readiness. For this, the...
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LOFAR Data Reduction Reference Manual
© CC-BY-SA 4.0 (Credit: Noa Peters, Aeksandar Shulevski) LOFAR data reduction is a complicated endeavor, luckily nowadays handled by a suite of pipelines which process the data and remove various...
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Science at Low Frequencies IX - the end of an era
© Public The ninth instalment of the Science at Low Frequencies (SALF) conference was recently held in Amsterdam (or in your very own Zoom room). The conference showcased the latest advancements in...
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Public lecture by Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell
© Hessels/ASTRON On December 13th, 2023, Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell gave an enthralling and engaging public lecture about her 1967 discovery of pulsars and the status of women in astronomy. Jocelyn was...
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30 years JIVE
© JIVE On the 21st of December, three decades ago, our institute was founded as the core organisation of the EVN, marking the beginning of a remarkable journey that has been characterised by continued...
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Purple Friday
© EIC Already since 2010, across The Netherlands, the second Friday of December turns purple to show support and solidarity to the LGBTQI+Â community. It serves as a powerful reminder of the ongoing...
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Happy Holidays
© ASTRON On behalf of our Board, Management Team and all of our staff, we wish you Happy Holidays and a wonderful 2024!
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Keeping watch over AAS material
© Mischa Brendel We are closing in on the starting date of the AAS. Most of the materials going overseas have been collected already and Bart, who is still in a holiday mood, is keeping a close eye on...
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LOFAR long-term monitoring of the periodically active FRB 20180916B
© Futselaar/ASTRON FRB 20180916B is a fascinating fast radio burst (FRB) source that becomes active every 16.3 days, but apparently not at the same time at all observable radio frequencies. It is also...
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2nd year research practicum at ASTRON/UvA
© Hessels/ASTRON In the week of January 8th, 2024, ASTRON hosted four 2nd-year bachelors students from the University of Amsterdam for a research practicum. In the practicum, the students analysed...
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Message from 1987
© - I recently discovered this piece of art on the back side of a nice VLA poster of the Galactic center. Unfortunately the slogan 'Wij zoeken radiostraling en vinden storing' ('we look for radio waves...
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Lunar occultation of Sagittarius A
© CC-BY 4.0 Tammo Jan Dijkema On 13 December, the Moon occulted the bright radio source Sagittarius A located at the galactic center. We observed this occultation with the Dwingeloo telescope, sharing...
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Archive: 18 years of Telescopium
© CC-BY 4.0 Tammo Jan Dijkema Telescopium was ASTRON's employee magazine from 1974 to 1992. It was written by employees and can be considered a blend of the '#random' Slack channel, HR News and random...
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Colloquium: The pattern speed of the stellar bar of the Large Magellanic...
© ESA/Gaia/DPAC The Large Magellanic Cloud, the mini barred spiral galaxy distant by 50 kpc from the Milky Way, has been observed extensively by the ESA-Gaia satellite since 2014. For about 11 million...
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Dwingeloo receives UHF from Japanese Moon rover
© CC-BY-SA 4.0 CAMRAS On 19 January, Japan landed a vehicle on the Moon. This lander, SLIM, had two Moon rovers on board: LEV-1 and LEV2. LEV-1 was equipped with antennas that could communicate...
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LOFAR ERIC: Distributed Research Infrastructure for European Astronomical...
© ASTRON LOFAR ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium) has been officially launched at its first Council meeting on 22 January 2024. This follows the decision establishing LOFAR ERIC as...
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Colloquium: The LOFAR view of ram-pressure stripping in the Virgo cluster
© Henrik Edler Ram pressure stripping is an important environmental process that contributes to the quenching of star formation in cluster galaxies. Since it also affects the non-thermal phase of the...
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TMSS v1.0
© Wim van Cappellen Last quarter Team Ruby finished their work on TMSS v1.0 Therefor they and their stakeholders were treated to cake. TMSS is our Telescope Manager Specification System. It is now...
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