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ASTRON & POLFAR sign for three new Polish LOFAR antenna stations
© ASTRON Yesterday, ASTRON and the Polish LOFAR consortium POLFAR signed a contract for the construction of three new antenna stations for the International LOFAR Telescope (ILT), in the north, west...
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ASTRON Bike To Work Day -- Monday June 16
© JvL The early dawns and the starting summer weather make the week with the year's longest days perfectly suited for bike rides. Over the last few years a number of ASTRON-ers that live significantly...
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New ASTRON Board Member - Albertiene Hadders
© ASTRON ASTRON has a new Board member - Albertiene Hadders. Abertiene's background is in finance, (interim) management and business strategy. She lives in Groningen, and is also keenly interested in...
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Successful SKA meeting in Sicily
© astron Last week, almost everybody of some importance in the international radio astronomy community was at Sicily to discuss updating the SKA science case. The previous printed version of the SKA...
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The Dwingeloo Complex
© ASTRON Since it is easy to download an ASTRON/JIVE Daily Image from the archive (just right-click on it), this is done by many people, for instance to add some extra cachet to their presentations. We...
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Yearly ASTRON R&D outing
© - On June 5th, the R&D department of Astron had its yearly outing. Although it was only announced as "something fun", almost everyone signed up(*). This year, we stayed extremely close to Astron:...
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Today's Colloquium: Numerical Simulations of Relativistic AGN Jets at...
© Manel Perucho (Universitat de Valencia) I will review recent results from numerical simulations of relativistic jets in the context of parsec-scale jets and long-term evolution in the kiloparsec...
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Goodbye to Pavillion West
© Tammo Jan Dijkema, Bram Veenboer On June 20th 2014 we finally said goodbye to Pavillion West(*). It is the last of three temporary shacks (**) that have housed the offices of various groups of...
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Prototyping plastic conductive parts
© SKA-TSM Before embarking on the mass-production of a sub-system, e.g. for SKA, it is imperative to have full confidence in the suitability of all its various components. In the case of newly...
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Today's Colloquium at 11:00: The Chinese Space Science Programme & The Dark...
© NSSC,CAS / NASANote the unusual day (tuesday) and time (11:00)The Chinese Space Science Programme:The National Space Science Center (NSSC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) is China's gateway...
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Sunflower Galaxy
© astropix.nl This beautiful galaxy, known as M63 or NGC 5055, was discovered by Pierre Mechain on June 14, 1779. It is member of the M51 Group of galaxies in the constellation Canes Venatici (Hunting...
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Trio of supermassive black holes shake space-time
© R. P. Deane et al. Supermassive black holes in the centre of galaxies play an important role in the evolution of their hosts. How these giant black holes were formed in the first place and how they...
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So close...
© Madroon Community Consultants (MCC) On 25 June, the Christiaan Huygens Science Prize 2014 was awarded in the category Information and Communication Technology. The four young finalists had been...
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A Nice Stroll with our Neighbours
© Secretary ASTRON/JIVE Each year, the ASTRON/JIVE secretaries organize an outing with a theme that is somehow closely related to ASTRON/JIVE activities. This year, Marja Carnal came up with the idea...
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The APERTIF Phase Locked Loop (PLL) Unit
© ASTRON, 2014 Just some impressions of the APERTIF Phase Locked Loop Unit (PLL) which was installed in radiotelescopes 2 and 5 at the Westerbork site on June 24th. The PLL is a vital part of the Local...
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Cobalt project finished
© (c) Astron 2014 Today, after only one and a half year of hard work by a small team spanning Astron's Radio Observatory, R&D division, and Astronomy group, and Groningen University's Centre for...
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DOME Microserver Premiere
© ASTRON & IBMMicroserver eventASTRON, IBM and three members of the Dome Users Platform are proud to host a Dome Premiere at ASTRON's Van de Hulst auditorium. Dome is the research project in which...
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The GBNCC pulsar survey
© Kevin Stovall Pulsars are fascinating objects, radio-emitting neutron stars spinning as fast as hundreds of times per second. They have been used to study theories of gravity, supernova explosions,...
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A supermassive black hole blasting molecular gas from a galaxy at one million...
© Astron Massive outflows driven by active galactic nuclei are widely recognized to have a key role in the evolution of galaxies. These outflows heat the ambient gas, expel it from the central regions...
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ASTRON Mid-term Report (2014) - Front cover
© ASTRON ASTRON recently prepared and submitted a Mid-term Report (MTR) to NWO, about how the institute has responded to the recommendations that emerged from last institute evaluation in 2011, and...
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