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Transformer models for astrophysical time series
© OB/JVL You may use or have heard of, or use, ChatGPT -- the Generative Pre-trained Transformer. Such transformer models have recently become very successful language processing. At heart they are...
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Cool Stars
© Rob Kavanagh A group of Dutch radio astronomers recently descended upon the University of California San Diego for the biennial conference Cool Stars. There, they shared their exciting new results to...
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André Gunst celebrating 25 years at ASTRON.
© ASTRON On July 1, 1999, André began his career as a digital design engineer at ASTRON after 11 years of studying electronics. The day after successfully defending his thesis, which focused on...
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Dwingeloo featured in musical
© Storkschool In early June, the children of the last group of the local Storkschool (ages 11, 12) visited the Dwingeloo telescope.Apparently this year's visit made an impression, since the telescope...
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A Very Disco Outfit
© Cassie Tooms On July 3rd, ASTRON celebrated its 75th anniversary with the Very Disco(very) festival! Since inhabitants of Lhee were also invited, and a dress code was set for the party, we decided to...
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Summer students 2024
© - This year at ASTRON, we are thrilled to welcome summer students from diverse corners of the globe. As part of a cherished tradition, the students place pins with their names on a world map...
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Road trip
© Hilonka Dekker A couple of weeks ago, Roelie Kremersâ friend Hilonka Dekker caught one of our picnic tables going on a road trip. It turns out that Yvonne Dijk and Lute van de Bult were...
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Perseïden-meteorenzwerm
© R.H. Smallenbroek On Sunday night, Reina Smallenbroek captured the impressive Perseid meteor shower. From 11:09 PM to 11:35 PM, she took a photo every second, capturing multiple falling stars. She...
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Canada Excellence Research Chair in Transient Astrophysics
© Hessels Greetings from my new office at McGill University in Montréal, Canada, where I've started as the Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Transient Astrophysics.Launched in 2008, the CERC...
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Taking care of colleagues!
© Gemma Janssen & Brendan Tran What a brilliant idea! On a hot summer day, when people come to ASTRON to enjoy the airco in their offices, or have to work but rather be outside enjoying the sun, it...
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Shooting stars and northern lights - the movie
© (c) 2024 CC BY-SA 4.0 On august 12th we went out at night to watch the Perseids meteors, together with our summer students. We were treated to several bright shooting stars, and the northern lights...
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LOFAR1 production operations - the end of a successful era!
© Roberto Pizzo on behalf of the LOFAR team August 31st 2024 marked the end of LOFAR1 production operations. Since December 1st 2012, LOFAR has been a very productive and innovative Observatory. More...
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Epaphus - Chasing the space weather of other worlds
© Public I have recently been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant to understand the type of weather planets around other stars experience. The grant was titled "Radio stars and...
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Astródex
© Henk Mulder, Willem Brouwer, Tammo Jan Dijkema Welcome to the wonderful world of Astron!There are many things to discover on your travels, for instance (e)VLBI and LOFAR. This map was made to help...
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Dwingeloo Detection of an FRB by an ASTRON/JIVE Summer Student
© CC-BY-SA 4.0 Max Fine / CAMRAS ASTRON/JIVE Summer Student Maxwell A. Fine spent his internship developing the Dwingeloo Radio Telescope (DRT) as a capable fast radio burst (FRB) observatory. He did...
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Colloquium: The complicated lives of local Universe galaxies
© Amelia Fraser-McKelvie For decades, astronomers have attempted to classify galaxies based on their visual appearance. Beneath these neat categories of Spiral, Lenticular and Elliptical can lie very...
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Colloquium: MHONGOOSE: searching for low-column density gas with MeerKAT
© Erwin de Blok (ASTRON/UCT/RuG) The MHONGOOSE Large Survey Project is obtaining ultra-deep observations with MeerKAT to map the distribution and kinematics of the low column-density neutral hydrogen...
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Herman Brood Workshop
© - On 11 September, a group of colleagues attended the HERMAN BROOD workshop of the PV.Everyone was very creative with paint and spray can. Sometimes it was really a matter of thinking out-of-the-box!...
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Colloquium: Investigating the Epoch of Reionisation with Closure Phases
© Keller The Epoch of Reionisation (EoR) marks the cosmic period during which the neutral hydrogen that pervaded the Universe transitioned to an almost entirely ionised state. The most promising probe...
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Kicking-off ALF
© Ilse van Bemmel & Warner Bros On 3 October we had the kick-off meeting for the Ambient L-band Feed project, or ALF, for short. The scope of the project is to start development of room-temperature...
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