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Greetings from the Southern Hemisphere!
© ASTRON & UCT copyright The atomic hydrogen gas (HI) in late-type galaxies usually extends well beyond their stellar disk. However, due to the low surface brightness of the gas in the external...
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Boards ready for Apertif Correlator Subrack testing.
© ASTRON The APERTIF correlator will use 16 UniBoards to correlate the signals from 12 WSRT telescopes for all 37 beams over 300MHz bandwidth. These 16 UniBoards will be placed in two subracks. To...
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Feasibility test of FRB searching and localization with the EVN
© JIVE My name is Zhigang Wen, and I am a Ph.D. student from Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory, China. This summer, I worked at JIVE on Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) searching and localization with the...
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First MSSS paper and data available online!
© ASTRON / LOFAR The Multifrequency Snapshot Sky Survey (MSSS) is LOFAR's first large-area imaging survey. A great deal of effort has gone into characterizing the survey performance and checking the...
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ATESE: An ATCA survey for Extreme Scattering Events
© Keith Bannister A subset of compact quasars have exhibited peculiar, distinctive variations in their light curves, whose timescales are so short that they cannot be explained by intrinsic processes....
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First SKALA2 antenna on the MRO site
© ICRAR/Curtin The first SKALA2 antenna has been deployed at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO), the future site of SKA_Low. It will be operated as a standalone total-power instrument. The...
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Good night, sleep tight!
© ASTRON Advanced civilisations harnessing energies on galactic scales (so-called Kardashev Type III civilisations) are expected to be detectable in the mid-Infrared part of the spectrum via the...
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Experiments in Face Recognition
© Minnie Mao, Our business is Radio Aperture Synthesis, in which Fourier Transforms play an important role. Of course this is a very serious business, but in our lighter moments we sometimes play...
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It happens all the time...
© Madroon Community Consultants (MCC) It happens distressingly often with temporary staff. They work here for a few years, and just before they leave, one discovers that they are actually rather...
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Today's colloquium: Follow the chirp: seeing and listening to the transient...
© Swinburne The mergers of binary compact objects (black holes, neutron stars, white dwarfs) are amongst some of the most violent events in the Universe. The physics driving these events in strongly...
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VLBI observations of ESA's MEX flying-by Phobos
© JIVE and ESA (for Mars, Phobos and MEX images) PRIDE (Planetary Interferometry and Doppler Experiment), a project led by the Joint Institute for VLBI - ERIC (JIVE), aims for ultra-precise...
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AG to the Efteling
© Cees Bassa, Kelley Hess, Marjan Tibbe, Vanessa Moss, Gemma Janssen On Tuesday 8 September the Astronomy Group travelled south for a long-awaited group outing. After a voting process to define our...
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The ``shook up`` galaxy NGC 3079
© ASTRON The starburst/Seyfert galaxy NGC 3079 is a very famous object, hosting a spectacular outflow of hot, ionised gas driven by a starburst in the centre. Because of this, NGC 3079 has been the...
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Local gas, global meeting
© astron During the first week of September, about 100 astronomers from (almost) all over the world (see inset) gathered in Dwingeloo to attend a meeting called Life-cycle of gas in galaxies: A Local...
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Today's Colloquium: Zooming in on the planet-forming zones of disks: Sweet...
© Ewine van DishoeckEditor's note: Do not miss this opportunity to hark(*) the next President of the IAU!Protoplanetary disks are the birthplaces of planets, but the spatial resolution at long...
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Colloquium next week: Data and Data Services at TACC
© Niall Gaffney/TACC The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) has been at the forefront of High Performance Computing for over a decade. During this time, many researchers have entered the era of...
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Today Signing of Agreement METIS Instrument for E-ELT
© NOVA Optical Infrared Instrumentation group at ASTRON This morning, the European Southern Observatory ESO and the consortium of institutes for the design and construction of METIS, will sign the...
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Agreement signed for METIS Instrument E-ELT
© NOVA Yesterday, at the Science Faculty Club of Leiden University, Tim de Zeeuw, ESO Director General of the European Southern Observatory ESO and H.W. (Willem) te Beest, Vice-President Executive...
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The DRAGN is breathing fire
© Vikram Singh Radio-loud galaxies are a subset of AGN that show enormous regions of radio emission outside the visible extent of the host galaxy. In the nearby universe, these double-lobed radio...
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WSRT steering and power distribution upgrade
© ASTRON After many successful years of MFFE-IVC-DZB observations, we were given the opportunity for a thorough upgrade. For the coming era of APERTIF and VLBI observations, all 14 telescopes have been...
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