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Giant gas reservoir around an old lenticular galaxy
© Kapteyn Institute/Astron NGC 4203 is a nearby lenticular galaxy surrounded by an unusually large HI disc. In a paper now accepted for publication in MNRAS, a team lead by a PhD student Mustafa Yildiz...
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A black hole comes back to life
© Megan Argo, Ilse van Bemmel A team of radio astronomers, led by Megan Argo of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, and JIVE astronomer Ilse van Bemmel, has for the first time found evidence of...
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AAVS1 detailed design meeting
© Kris Zarb Adami During the last week of May 2015, the AAVS1 design team (and two SKAO members) joined efforts on the beautiful island of Malta, to attend the AAVS1 Detailed Design Meeting, hosted by...
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Goodbye to our friend Kees van het Klooster (ESTEC)
© Jaap van 't Klooster and ASTRON Last week, a great friend of Radio Astronomy (and ASTRON) left ESTEC for his third career, as parttimer in the Antenna Group of the Eindhoven University. The picture...
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Meet Pluto in the van der Hulst auditorium today !
© ASTRON & NASA This afternoon around 1:49 pm (11:49 UTC), the New Horizons spacecraft will make its closest approach to Pluto and its system of moons. Unfortunately, the first images from the...
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"First light" in ILT Container for new Polish station Baldy
© RTV Drenthe, R.G.B. Halfwerk After weeks of programming, testing and integrating of numerous pieces of delicate LOFAR hardware like 192 Receiver Units (RCU), 24 RSP boards (Remote Station Processing...
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SKA Science Data Processor consortium all-hands meeting
© ASTRON From Monday June 29th to Friday July 3rd ASTRON hosted the second all-hands meeting of the SKA Science Data Processor consortium. More than 70 people, representing over 30 institutes and...
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LOFAR sees lightning
© ASTRON The movie shows an image of the entire sky using only the super-terp LOFAR stations. Data from one 7 minute snapshot of the MSSS HBA survey were used to generate a movie frame every 3.5...
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Apertif Radio Transient System passes PDR
© JvL We are glad to announce that on July 7, 2015, the Apertif Radio Transient System (ARTS) passed its Preliminary Design Review (PDR). ARTS extends Apertif for high time resolution -- for pulsars...
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Breaking the 1Tbps barrier with UniBoard2
© DESP Engineering is about pushing the envelope. With UniBoard2 we wanted to break the Tbps barrier(*), and that is exactly what we have done. During a visit by Peter Schepers from Altera Inc. and...
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DRAGNET GPU Cluster Delivered
© Bassa/Sipior After a half-year design and tender process, the DRAGNET GPU cluster has now been installed by ClusterVision at the Smitsborg Rekenhal in Groningen... only an arm's length away from...
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AAVS1 System Requirements Review
© Pieter Benthem On the (early! morning of the) 2nd of July 2015, we organised the System Requirements Review of the SKA Aperture Array Verification System (AAVS1). To save people the burden of...
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Summer student party
© Astron / JIVE The traditional Director's Summer Student party was held on July 15th. Due to building activities, it was a somewhat smaller affair than usual, just the students and their supervisors....
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The LOFAR Imaging Cookbook v.17 is out!
© Aleksandar Shulevski On June 19 2015, version 17.0 of the LOFAR Imaging Cookbook has been released. The first version of the manual was published more than 4 years ago, when the first LOFAR...
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Running the Mad MeerKAT Dash and the Losberg Loop
© Rob Millenaar At ASTRON there is ample opportunity for lunch-time walks and runs in the Dwingelerveld National Park. There is even a "Sterrenwachtloop" (Observatory Run), connecting the Westerbork...
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First light of the Kapteyn Radio Telescope
© Pictures taken by Niels Bos In July 1965, two papers appeared in ApJ Letters that changed our view of the Universe. The first was by Dicke, Peebles, Roll & Wilkinson from Princeton University,...
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Automated low noise test system
© Emiel Brommer Half a year ago I've started my internship at ASTRON at the radiogroup. I got an assignment from Mark Ruiter and Erik van der Wal. My assignment was to build an automated low noise test...
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AGC 226067: A possible interacting low-mass galaxy
© Betsey Adams AGC 226067 is an intriguing source originally identified by its neutral hydrogen gas content (HI) in the ALFALFA HI survey with no apparent optical counterpart. Subsequent deep...
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Neutron stars strike back at black holes in jet contest
© NRAO Neutron stars and black holes are the two densest and most extreme forms of matter known in the Universe. When a neutron star or a black hole exists in a binary system with a companion star,...
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Quad-mode antenna for sparse L-band tiles
© Stellenbosch University / ASTRON Since 2013 the MIDPREP staff exchange programme has strengthened collaborations between ASTRON and the South African Universities of Cape Town, Rhodes and...
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