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Direction finding of amateur radio stations using AZELGEO support in TMSS
© Public Domain The electromagnetic spectrum has uses far beyond radio astronomy includingpopular cellular, WiFi and emergency services. Perhaps lesser known isthe widespread use across so called...
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SKA-LOW Operator Visits ASTRON!
© Riley Keel Howdy! Iâm one of the Telescope Operators for the SKA-LOW, and I visited ASTRON from the 19th of February to the 1st of March. The purpose of this trip was essentially to learn as much...
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Colloquium: Émilie Du Châtelet and the foundations of physics
© Jan-Willem van Holten The French marquess Ãmilie Du Châtelet (1706-1749) was a self-made philosopher, physicist and mathematician, and the first woman to publish a scientific paper in the annals of...
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Documentary Film Crew Visits the LOFAR Lightning group at ASTRON
© Owned by BH On Monday we had a visit of a French documentary filmmaker, Francios Tribolet, who is making documentary on lightning. He is interviewing multiple lightning research groups around the...
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XCEPTION making waves at the WSRT
© Henk Mulder, Leysan Mulder The cosmic duo Ruby Prophet and Bram Boender together form XCEPTION, a name youâve probably heard before from hardstyle stages and festivals like Decible Outdoor, Defqon...
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Colloquium: Dwarf Galaxies as Probes of Star Formation Regulation on Galactic...
© Erin Kado-Fong Dwarf galaxies are exceptional probes of star formation physics due to their status as extreme (low-density, low-metallicity) star-forming environments and to the predominant role that...
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LOFAR FM radio
© Astron For their HBO minor project Leon Weber and Bastian Tigelaar reached out to Astron for an embedded electronics project. As radio receiver developer I was curious about the idea what are the...
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MICADO pupilwheel mechanism - warm tests
© none The MICADO team at NOVA has assembled and warm tested their first mechanism for MICADO: the pupil wheel mechanism. The pupilwheel contains 18 positions for filters, Lyot stops, a vektor APP, and...
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Data Intensive Astronomy Centres in the Netherlands
© N/A At ASTRON, we're busy gearing up for LOFAR2.0 â which will make the telescope even more data-intensive than it is now â and preparing for the exabyte-per-year data avalanche expected from...
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Wolfsbos visits ASTRON
© Frank Nuijens On March 26th and 27th, no less than 120 high school students (around 60 each day) visited ASTRON to learn more about the technology behind everything that ASTRON does. The visitors...
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NGC 5068: a MHONGOOSE mystery
© Public The first MHONGOOSE HI science paper on NGC 5068 was published in March, the paper can be found on arXiv at: 2402.13749. In the paragraph below, we used ChatGPT to summarise the results and...
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Colloquium: Dynamic Pulsar Timing Array data combinations
© Rutger van Haasteren Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) projects have published the first signs of a stochastic background of gravitational waves. Combined data from all PTAs are expected to yield much larger...
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SCRNet team Tangerine plannend again!
© Janneke de Boer Team Tangerine came together again, and this time we were at the Observatoire de Paris! The SKA Regional Centres Network Agile Release Train (SRCNet ART) planned for the upcoming...
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SRCNet Shanghai workshop
© Janneke de Boer The SKA regional centres network project is approaching its first prototype release at the end of this year, marking a significant milestone in its development. We reached out to all...
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Dwingeloo Telescope observes Fast Radio Burst
© CC-BY-SA 4.0 CAMRAS On Wednesday, March 13, the Dwingeloo Telescope detected a flash from the Fast Radio Burst (FRB) FRB 20240114A. This is the first time an FRB has been measured with the Dwingeloo...
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Monitoring workshop @ WSRT
© Rene Lourens On Thursday March 28 TO, SDCO and SD joined forces by attending a workshop on monitoring LOFAR using Grafana, Mimir and Loki, hosted by Team Ruby. Grafana is utilized for monitoring and...
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Solar eclipse in Mississippi
© - On Apr 8th a total solar eclipse passed through North America and I had the pleasure of giving a virtual talk to several classes of 5th and 6th graders at Magnolia Heights School in Senatobia,...
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7th LOFAR Data School is on the way!
© ASTRON The 7th LOFAR Data School is finally here! The Dutch weather is not very welcoming for the 44 participants and 10+ lecturers and tutors this week, but surely the weather is not what we are...
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Sangeeth Kochanthara wins one of the Best PhD Thesis Awards by the Dutch...
© ©2024 All rights reserved. Sangeeth Kochanthara Sangeeth Kochanthara won one of the Best PhD Thesis Awards by the Dutch National Association for Software Engineering !ðð Sangeeth Kochanthara,...
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Over 100 bright bursts from a hyperactive fast radio burst source
© Futselaar/Ould-Boukattine/Hessels/ASTRON Using five `small' (25-32m) European radio telescopes, including Westerbork (RT1), Onsala (O8), Torun, Stockert, and Dwingeloo, we have detected over 100...
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