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LOFAR Science Week 2014
© ASTRON The LOFAR Science Week for 2014 kicked off in Amsterdam this week and brought together over 150 members of the LOFAR science community. The week began on Monday afternoon with a LOFAR Users...
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Today's Colloquium: Seeing double - looking for dual active galactic nuclei...
© Sandor Frey Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the centres of large galaxies seem ubiquitous in the Universe. If interactions and mergers indeed play a significant role in galaxy evolution, then the...
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Very Small Board
© Astron ASTRON has excellent facilities in its laboratories, which play an essential role in the development of astronomical instruments, both for radio and optical/IR. Since some of these facilities...
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The Birth of Dutch Radio Astronomy: 70 years ago!
© public domain On April 15, 1944, the Netherlands Astronomers Club held a colloquium organized by Prof. Oort on "Radio Waves from Space". Henk van de Hulst, then a student in Utrecht, had been asked...
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Gabby Aitink-Kroes wins Engineer PowerWoman Award 2014
© Ronald Halfwerk The prestigious Engineer Powerwoman Award 2014 has been won by our very own Gabby Aitink-Kroes. The award ceremony took place at the WoMenPower Fachkongress (conference) in Hannover,...
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Today's Colloquium: The Role of Molecular Gas in Outflows
© Kalliopi Dasyra (Observatoire de Paris) Theoretical studies predict that the feedback of active galactic nuclei is capable of affecting the evolution of galaxies, and observational data have...
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Being Interviewed: All part of the job.
© Madroon Community Consultants (MCC) Since ASTRON and JIVE are leading institutes, our officials are regularly interviewed by a wide range of media. When seeing such an interview, it all seems so...
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Shipping UniRacks for AAVS
© DESP / ASTRON The image shows Sjouke Zwier shipping a UniRack (rack of UniBoards) to the University of Cambridge (UK). By the time of publication of this daily image another rack will have been sent...
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Whistling to Work
© Hiddo Hanenburg Going to work early in the morning, on the bicycle along the edge of the Dwingelderveld, is always a stimulating experience. One recent morning, the clouds opened a bit and I had a...
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First fringes with APERTIF ALPHA-3
© ASTRON, 2014 In a major breakthrough, fringes have been measured with an APERTIF PAF interferometer! After the multi-year development, procurement, production, integration and testing of the ALPHA-3...
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It has pleased His Majesty...
© Madroon Community Consultants (MCC) Our gracious King likes to see happy faces on his birthday. This time, it has pleased His Majesty to bestow the prestigious rank of "Officer in the Order of...
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The first infrared fringes with MATISSE
© NOVA Optical Infrared Instrumentation group MATISSE, the mid-infrared interferometric spectrograph and imager for the VLTI, recently passed an important milestone by recording interferometric fringes...
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Today's NOVA colloquium: Unlocking Secrets of Pulsars with the Fermi...
© Alice Harding (NASA/GSFC) Of the several thousand rotation-powered pulsars that have been discovered by radio telescopes over the past forty years, only a handful were known to emit gamma-ray...
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The new ASTRON Photonics Lab
© ASTRON The mission of the Photonics Lab of ASTRON R&D is to look for photonic solutions for signal transport and signal processing systems for the next generation of giant radio telescopes like...
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Today's Colloquium: The cold ISM in massive early-type galaxies: origin,...
© Timothy Davis, NASA/ESA Recently, massive early-type galaxies have shed their 'red-and-dead' moniker, thanks to the discovery that many host residual star formation. As part of the ATLAS-3D project,...
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It has pleased His Majesty...
© Madroon Community Consultants (MCC) Our gracious King likes to see happy faces on his birthday. This time, it has pleased His Majesty to bestow the prestigious rank of "Officer in the Order of...
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Astron astronomer featuring in film for national celebration of Liberation Day
© Astron This year on May 5th, the official National Liberation Day will be organized by the Province Drenthe. The month of April was a sort of a warming up, called the "Month of Freedom", with many...
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Resisting Interference
© © Anne Archibald 2014 Modern radio telescopes must function in an environment full of radio-frequency interference. Often this takes the form of signals in which all the power is concentrated into a...
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HI discs in real and simulated early-type galaxies
© ASTRON One quarter of all nearby field early-type galaxies (ETGs) host a disc/ring of HI with size from a few to tens of kpc and mass up to ~1e+9 solar masses. We have investigated whether this HI is...
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1st MIDPREP workshop at ASTRON
© NL SKA Office During the 1st week of April, two related meetings took place at ASTRON, connected with the quest for mid-frequency (500-1500 MHz) Aperture Arrays. These will be sited in the Karoo in...
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