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AARTFAAC 12-station correlator commissioned
© www.aartfaac.org The AARTFAAC project has achieved a significant milestone with the demonstration of the working of the 12 station correlator. AARTFAAC piggybacks on LOFAR observations by correlating...
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Sander ter Veen: a new 'Doctor' in the LOFAR Science Support group
© S. ter Veen On 26 November 2015, the Radboud University of Nijmegen offered the stage of its Aula to Sander ter Veen of the Science Support group of the Radio Observatory of ASTRON. Sander's thesis...
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The East Asian Observatory
© Rob Millenaar On the occasion of a recent visit to the Hawaiian Big Island that came about because of family matters (what better reason to visit Hawaii than for a wedding), I remembered the days of...
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APERTIF-6 FrontEnds
© APERTIF At the end of October the APERTIF LNAs came in after production and testing at Variass. In November members of the APERTIF team installed these LNAs with Vivaldis in the housing and carrier...
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CSIRO - ASTRON Collaboration Gets in Shape
© FreakingNews.com Since mid 2015, the SKA1-Low CSP (Central Signal Processor) team consists of CSIRO (lead), ASTRON, the Auckland University of Technology and Curtin University. For both CSIRO in...
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SDSS versus BDSS
© astropix.nl How do the images of an 0.4m amateur telescope in a back garden in Beilen (at 10m above sea level) compare to those of the 2.5m Sloan Deep Sky Survey telescope on a 2788m high mountain...
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RF cabling APERTIF-6
© APERTIF Many hands make light work! In december 2015 many hands of the APERTIF team went to Westerbork to install RF-cables for the hardware of six of the twelve APERTIF dishes. With these cables the...
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LOFAR to extend into Ireland
© ASTRON The world's biggest connected radio telescope is about to become even bigger! LOFAR (Low Frequency Array) will expand into Ireland. This is not only great news for Irish astrophysics, but also...
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2016 New Year's Speeches
© ASTRON Today, at 10:30, the Directors of ASTRON and JIVE will give us their traditional New Year's Speeches in the canteen.
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Motivating the Troops
© Madroon Community Consultants (MCC) Yesterday, in front of a spell-bound crowd, Directors Huib-Jan van Langevelde (JIVE) and Mike Garrett (ASTRON) delivered their New Year's speeches. Huib-Jan...
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APERTIF-6 hardware in place
© APERTIF In this last week of the year 2015 we managed to complete APERTIF-6 hardware and most of firmware and software. All hardware is installed at RT2,4,5,8,9 and A for APERTIF-6. This is a big...
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SKA1_LOW precursor, AAVS1 station clearing
© Pieter Benthem The Aperture Array Verification System (AAVS1) is getting into shape, as can be seen in the picture above. It shows the ground clearings of a single, 35 meter diameter station, ready...
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The Wideband Low Noise Tile - The HI-line over five days
© ASTRON To conclude the current chapter in the development of the WLNT, a new measurement session was in order. The goal of this measurement session was to verify if the WLNT produced stable results...
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Rick Perley hounoured with Van Biesbroeck Prize
© NRAO The American Astronomical Society (AAS) has awarded its prestigious George Van Biesbroeck Prize to Dr. Rick Perley of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Socorro, New Mexico. The...
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South-Africa-Dutch SKA data science partnership seek to address Big Data...
© ASTRON The visit to South Africa by Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte included a pivotal South African-Dutch data science partnership between key institutions from both countries bringing us...
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Mounting the APERTIF DCU backplane
© ASTRON The backplane of an APERTIF DCU (Down Convertor Unit) is mounted using 28 screws. Putting in all the scews of 24 DCU's is a tremendous task. To simplify this task, Jan Idserda made a special...
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Up Close & Personal with 3C293
© ASTRON You may wonder why, with so many objects in the sky, astronomers very often focus on only one of them and spend a significant fraction of their time just to try to understand that single...
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MFAA environmental prototypes - going strong.
© Rob Millenaar Approaching their two-year birthday, the Mid Frequency Aperture Array (MFAA) environmental prototypes are still going strong! Installed during an inspiring trip to the SKA Karoo site,...
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Nowhere to Hide - Radio Quiet AGN in the HDF-N
© ASTRON, University of Manchester and University of Groningen Following on from the work of the late Seungyoup Chi (Chi et al. 2013, or see the daily image 28-06-2013), a new, ultra-sensitive...
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Shaping the Future in New Mexico
© ASTRON Just prior to leaving 2015, a second technical workshop on a new generation VLA was held at NRAO's Array Operations Center in Socorro, NM. Besides presenting an impressive science update, it...
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