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Preparing AARTFAAC hardware for six additional LOFAR stations
© ASTRON Currently in AARTFAAC, data is correlated from all dipoles in six LOFAR stations. The total number of signals that are correlated is 576. In 2015 this will be extended by a factor of two, to...
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Season's Greetings from ASTRON
© ASTRON ASTRON wishes you all a merry Christmas and a prosperous 2015!
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JIVE goes ERIC in 23 languages!
© ... On December 18, 2014, the ERIC decision was published in all 23 official languages of the EC. This means that three days later the ERIC legal entity comes into existence. That very same date, 21...
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We welcome the ATNF Daily Astronomy Picture
© ATNF It is with great pleasure that we welcome the launch of the ATNF Daily Astronomy Picture (ADAP): http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/bkoribal/ATNF-DailyImage/index.html We would of course like to...
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An Extreme Scattering Event of the Crab Pulsar
© Laura Driessen The Crab Pulsar is one of the few pulsars still surrounded by the supernova remnant (SNR) from the explosion that created it. The SNR is composed of filaments of gas and dust which...
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ASTRON RFoF towards AAVS0.5
© ASTRON/ICRAR The Low Frequency Aperture Array (LFAA) covers the lowest frequency band of the SKA, from 50MHz up to 350MHz, as described in the Baseline Design. To transport the dual polarised antenna...
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Mapping the LOFAR antennas
© Background (c) Microsoft Of course we know that we have the position coordinates of the LOFAR antennas right, to a tiny fraction of the wavelength. Otherwise, all kinds of funny effects would be...
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Today's colloquium: The Era of Time Domain Radio Astronomy
© AH A renaissance is taking place in optical and radio astronomy, due to application of rapidly evolving commercial technology. Moreover, by all accounts (including Astro2010, The Astronomy and...
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The Sheep of Obi-Wan
© astron One of the charms of Astron is that it is situated in one of the most beautiful spots in the Netherlands: the National Park Dwingelderveld. Very characteristic of this Park are herds of sheep...
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The New Year's Speeches
© Madroon Community Consultants (MCC) Today, at 10:30, the Directors of ASTRON and JIVE will regale us with their traditional New Year's Speeches. Cognoscenti will recognize the Dwingeloo heath (*),...
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AJDI of the Year (2014)
© ASTRON During his truly inspirational New Year's Speech, ASTRON Director Mike Garrett paid handsome tribute to the ASTRON/JIVE Daily Image (AJDI). He did this by using many of the iconic images...
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Searches for Extraterrestrial Intelligence with the SKA: Detectability of...
© http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.4867 In a recent paper, an international team of scientists, including several researchers from ASTRON and JIVE, discussed the exciting prospects for conducting searches for...
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Singing in the Rain
© Madroon Community Consultants (MCC) We have some wet but happy visitors to the Institute this week. Dan Stinebring (Oberlin College, USA) has brought three students with him for two weeks to work...
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The 26th Solvay Conference
© Ger de Bruyn Many people will remember the historic, iconic, photograph taken in 1911 at the first Solvay conference on physics: it hosted many of the key players in physics at the start of the 20th...
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Today's colloquium: The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
© Todd Mason, Mason Productions Inc. / LSST Corporation The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is a large aperture, wide-field, ground-based optical telescope designed to provide a deep time-domain...
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Panta Rhei, also @ R&D
© ASTRON R&D MT According to the Greek philosopher Heraclitus everything is in motion. This was ever so true for ASTRON R&D in 2014. 2014 was the first full year under the new leadership of...
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The jet-ISM interaction in the Outer Filament of Centaurus A
© astron Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are known to influence the evolution of their host galaxy through the injection of energy into the surrounding interstellar medium (ISM). Radio-loud AGN do this by...
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Over 100,000 Views for Pulsar Animation
© JvL Two movies accompany the press release for the presentation at AAS225, Seattle, Jan 4-8 of our results on pulsar J1906+0746. Within a few days these have done amazingly well, together drawing...
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Today's Colloquium: Radio-loud AGN -- fuelling and triggering
© Image Credits: NASA, ESA, S. Baum and C. O'Dea (RIT), R. Perley and W. Cotton (NRAO/AUI/NSF), and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) There is increasing speculation that AGN are intimately linked...
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Symbionos: Using LOFAR data to improve GNSS accuracy
© Madroon Community Consultants (MCC) The largest remaining uncertainty in GNSS (GPS, Galileo, etc) position measurements is the ionosphere. For the most common type of receiver it is typically in the...
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