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Today's Colloquium: The Physics of Angular Momentum Radio
© Bo Thide (Swedish Institute of Space Physics) Wireless communications, radio astronomy and other radio science applications are mainly implemented with techniques built on top of the electromagnetic...
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AstroFest 2014
© Astron Also this year, we organised the traditional AstroFest, the yearly science day to get an overview of all the wonderful science projects of the astronomy group, the astronomers of the radio...
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Using Art to Reveal Science in Astronomy Public Outreach Images
© Astron After the success of the "Astronomy Pretty Poster Pageant" (see Daily Image 1/8/2014), another event was organised aimed for improving our skills of producing nice astronomical images (we seem...
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DOME Users Platform PCB Workshop
© ASTRON On June 25 and 26, seventeen design experts from Transfer DSW, Sintecs, Strukton, ASTRON and IBM came together at the Hanze Institute of Technology (HIT) in Assen to discuss and learn about...
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To Save the Rhinos
© Madroon Community Consultants (MCC) Last week, a multi-disciplinary group from various Dutch institutes met with South African counterparts to discuss what the Netherlands might contribute to saving...
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What triggers a radio AGN? The intriguing case of PKS B1718-649
© ASTRON Neutral hydrogen (HI) absorption studies provide great insights in how Active Galactic Nuclei work. Neutral hydrogen has been detected in the inner regions of several radio galaxies,...
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Today's colloquium: Science with the first station of the Long Wavelength...
© LWA Construction of the first station of the Long Wavelength Array (LWA1)was completed in 2011. The LWA1 has since undergone commissioning and regular scientific observations from four calls for...
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PSR B0823+26: Emission modes in single pulses
© C. Sobey on behalf of the LOFAR collaboration; no connection with Joy Division, Peter Saville, et al. The poster above won 3rd prize in the Astronomy Pretty Poster Pageant (APPP) 2014. All entries...
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Launch of Het Logboek by Anke den Duyn
© ASTRON September 13 marked the end of a 2-year project, and the beginning of a new one. In close cooperation with CAMRAS, Anke den Duyn launched the youth novel "Het Logboek" by handing the first...
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M101 observed with the WSRT (again)
© Astron The spiral galaxy M101 belongs to a small and select group of galaxies that are the HI icons of the WSRT. M101 is one of the largest nearby late-type galaxies and, because it is seen fairly...
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Het Logboek
© ASTRON This weekend, the youth novel "Het logboek" will be presented to Marc Oort, grandson of Prof. Jan Oort, the founder of radio astronomy in the Netherlands, and to Anne Margreet Muller, daughter...
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LOFAR Imaging Busy Week XXI
© LOFAR CITT In some societies, you're not really an adult until you reach 21. By that reckoning LOFAR imaging is now all grown up! The twenty-first installment of LOFAR's successful series of Imaging...
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Today's Colloquium: The power of maser Zeeman splitting: today and in the era...
© Jimi Green I will outline recent work on Zeeman splitting of Galactic hydroxyl masers, both ground and excited-state transitions, discussing the expectations and conventions of magnetic fields...
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First 10 LOFAR pulsar discoveries
© Sally Cooper / PWGLOTAAS is the LOFAR Tied-Array All-Sky Survey, an ongoing LOFAR all-northern-sky survey for pulsars and fast transients - i.e. anything that emits millisecond timescale dispersed...
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Dome face-to-face meeting in Zurich
© ASTRON/IBM Twice a year, representatives of the Dome team come together to share knowledge and discuss progress on a face-to-face basis. This year's second meeting was held September 16-18th at the...
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North America and the Pelican
© astropix.nl At the end of summer, when the nights are getting longer and darker, the constellation of Cygnus, with all its beautiful emission nebulae, is visible high above our heads. An ideal target...
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SKA LFAA antenna pattern measurements using Uniboard processing in Cambridge
© Astron/DESP After the recent delivery of an Uniboard processing rack to Cambridge, the first antenna measurement results are now presented. This measurement campaign was a collaboration of the...
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Today's colloquium: Resolved stellar populations in the nearby Local Group...
© R. Jay GaBany In today's colloquium I will explain how resolved stellar populations in the nearby Local Group dwarf galaxies have been used to study the detailed chemical, kinematic and star...
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ASTERICS!
© ASTRON Earlier this month, a large proposal named ASTERICS (Astronomy ESFRI & Research Infrastructure Cluster) was submitted to the Horizon 2020 Call - INFRADEV-4. ASTERICS aims to bring together...
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Wise oversight for the new Radome of the 20m at Onsala Space Observatory
© Onsala Space Observatory/L. Wennerback (aerial picture) and Magnus Thomasson (owl) During my recent visit to Onsala Space Observatory, the replacement of the old radome around the 20m telescope...
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