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The Third LOFAR Data Processing School
© R. F. Pizzo The Third LOFAR Data Processing School was organized and hosted by ASTRON between 17-21 November 2014. The event was sponsored by the host institute, the International LOFAR Telescope...
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The Periphery of Disks
© CASS/ASTRON One of the key science themes for SKA and its pathfinders is the role of atomic gas in the evolution of galaxies. So far, studies on this topic have been limited, for technical reasons,...
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The AARTFAAC correlator is ready to go!
© ASTRON The AARTFAAC(*) correlator that is currently under development will correlate all 288 dual polarization antennas of the six LOFAR superterp stations. The signals arrive with an aggregated...
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Today's Colloquium: The evolving polarised jets of stellar mass black holes
© Image Credit: R.Kelly Radio emission from low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) is dominated by synchrotron emission from relativistic jets that are powered by accretion onto the black hole. Polarization...
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Meet the Radio Life team!
© Astron The ERC Advanced Grant "Exploiting new radio telescopes to understand the role of AGN in galaxy evolution", better known as "RadioLife", is up-and-running since 1.5 years. The proposal has...
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The HI absorption Zoo
© Katinka Gereb Radio nuclear activity is thought to be connected with the properties of the gas in the circumnuclear region of galaxies. Neutral hydrogen 21-cm (HI) absorption is a sensitive measure...
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HuDaGa: Hunt for the Darkest Galaxies
© Astron Tom Oosterloo, one of the senior astronomers at ASTRON and professor at the Kapteyn Institute Groningen, has been awarded a prestigious TOP grant from NWO. The grant will allow Tom to expand...
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Heel Nederland Kijkt Sterren
© ASTRON Tonight at 21:25 (local time) the famous Westerbork Radio Telescope (WSRT) will shine in the Dutch TV show Heel Nederland Kijkt Sterren (All of the Netherlands watches the Stars) on NPO1. The...
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Today's Colloquium: Tracing the Structure and Kinematics of the Milky Way...
© Alberto Sanna I will review the current state of the Bar and Spiral Structure Legacy Survey (BeSSeL). The BeSSeL Survey is a Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) key science project to measure...
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The Low Noise Tile (LNT): Measurements at Parkes (1)
© ASTRON After the successful completion and measurement of the Medium Size Tile (MST) in May of this year, the MST, with a 5x6 array of new LNT-elements in two polarizations, has been measured at the...
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H2020 EXTRIMA proposal submitted
© Astron Today, the project proposal EXTRIMA was submitted to H2020 call FET HPC 2014 together with University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Fraunhofer MEVIS, mediri GmbH and NL eScience Center....
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THE BINARY COMPANION OF YOUNG, RELATIVISTIC PULSAR J1906+0746
© JvL PSR J1906+0746 is a young pulsar in the relativistic binary with the second-shortest known orbital period, of 3.98 hours. Our timing study based on five years of observations, conducted with the...
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First Prototype of a Dense Dipole Array for MFAA
© ASTRON The first small prototype of a Dense Dipole Array (DDA) was manufactured and S-parameter measurements were done. The design consists of a 4x4 array of densely packed printed dipoles above a...
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AARTFAAC takes another step towards real-time deployment
© AARTFAAC group The AARTFAAC project piggybacks on the LOFAR superterp stations in order to implement a commensal, near real-time All-sky monitor for transient sources. This is achieved by additional...
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Speed Up Firmware Development
© ASTRON In the Digital and Embedded Signal Processing group we are constantly seeking ways to reduce the development time of digital systems and simplify the workflow in order to reduce the time to...
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Calibratability Fundamentals (2): Impact of observing frequency on apparent...
© ASTRON In our daily image of October 31, we started an investigation of the number of sources that will be visible anywhere in the field-of-view of a 15-m filled aperture at 1 GHz (shown in the right...
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ERIC decision for JIVE
© JIVE On the 12th of December 2014, the president of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker signed the decision that will allow the Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE) to operate as a...
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Kijk eens wat verder dan de Sterren
© Art, Education & Outreachtprojects Wednesday November 26, the project Kijk eens wat verder dan de sterren (Look beyond the stars) has started. Primary schools are invited to register for the...
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Successful hand-over of the new International LOFAR station Norderstedt
© Pictures: Dieter Engels, Ronald Halfwerk The latest International LOFAR station, located at Norderstedt, close to the city of Hamburg, was handed-over successfully on December 16th by AstroTec...
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AGC198606: A gas-bearing dark matter minihalo?
© Betsey Adams Our model of cosmology, including dark matter and dark energy, does a good job at explaining large scale structure in the Universe but predicts many more small structures than we observe...
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