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Get-together of the LOFAR nearby AGN group
© ASTRON The LOFAR working group on Nearby AGN has been active as part of the LOFAR Survey Key Science Project since the starting of the observations in Cycle 0. A number of famous objects - some shown...
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APERTIF-12 FrontEnds waiting for assembly
© APERTIF After a succesfull hardware rollout (APERTIF-6) of the first 6 APERTIF dishes the rollout continues (APERTIF-12). Two pictures shown are taken at ITEQ Amersfoort in january 2016 during a...
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Winner - ASTRON-JIVE Daily Image 2015
© ASTRON Last year, we established a new annual award for the best AJDI of the year. As is now the tradition, the winner was announced during the New Year's speeches. The winner for 2015 is ...(drrumm...
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Today's Colloquium: Peering through Jupiter's Clouds with the Upgraded Very...
© Imke de Pater Despite the fact that Jupiter has been observed for decades from the ground, and in situ by spacecraft, we still do not know its bulk composition, nor do we understand its global...
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A thin meniscus shaped parabolic mirror
© Rik ter Horst Trapped heat inside an astronomical mirror deteriorates the image quality considerably. Sometimes cooling down takes hours and only after being thermally stabilized image quality will...
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Visit to ASTRON by students of the Universities for Applied Sciences in the...
© ASTRON On the 18th of January, ASTRON welcomed a combined delegation of students of the northern universities for applied sciences: NHL Hogeschool Leeuwarden, Hanzehogeschool Groningen, and Hanze...
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Big step forwards towards 2 Gbit/s e-VLBI
© JIVE On February 3rd, we conducted a very successful 2Gbit/s e-VLBI test. Many EVN stations participated; Effelsberg, Hartebeesthoek, Medicina, Noto, Onsala and Yebes all streamed data from their...
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The Parkes HI Zone of Avoidance Survey
© Staveley-Smith, Kraan-Korteweg, Schr�der, Henning, Koribalski, Stewart and Heald A blind HI survey of the extragalactic sky behind the southern Milky Way has been conducted with the multibeam...
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Today's Colloquium: The Radio Time Domain with the Murchison Widefield Array...
© David Kaplan Explorations of the radio sky in the time-domain are an exciting frontier in astrophysics, and one where new observational capabilities will open up new windows on the universe. As one...
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PAASAR
© Bart Peeters, Ursa Minor B.V. The proof-of-concept prototype of the Phased Array Antenna for SAR (PAASAR) project is currently being tested in the assembly area. The aim of the project is to develop...
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APERTIF DCU Powercard
© E.Mulder Another nice piece of hardware ready for APERTIF-12. the picture shows 24 Powercards for 24 DCUs (Down Convertor Units http://www.astron.nl/dailyimage/main.php?date=20160125 ) for the second...
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9th meeting of ASTRON's Scientific Advisory Committee
© ASTRON Recently, we invited our Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) to visit Dwingeloo, in order to discuss some important issues that included the Science Data Centre (SDC) initiative, the APERTIF...
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All-Sky HBA movie with Polish station Baldy PL612
© Astron & ATH Station Baldy was the first POLFAR station to be commissioned. It received a lot of media attention because it was not only the first Polish LOFAR station, but it also contained the...
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Today's Colloquium: Characterizing the Epoch of Planet Formation in...
© Laura Perez Planet formation is a natural outcome of the star formation process. With the advent of sensitive observations -- particularly of circumstellar disks at radio wavelengths -- and together...
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ASTERICS and a new era of multi-wavelength/multi-messenger astronomy
© ASTRON The ASTERICS project held its second General Assembly in Amsterdam recently. The project is making good progress with all deliverables submitted on time, and with some developments even ahead...
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Proper SKA footwear
© ASTRON After a successful LFAA AAVS1 DDR, we were eager to surprise the international panel with a unique present. Therfore, we're happy to present the first edition of proper SKA footwear! Looking...
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LOFAR Science Highlights
© ASTRON With the LOFAR telescope now into its fifth cycle of regular operations and examples of the amazing science being done with it becoming more numerous in the published literature, it is time...
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Ghost hunting
© ASTRON / Rhodes University In radio astronomy, ghosts are not just a figment of our imagination. Although their nature has eluded us for a long time after their first spotting in a WSRT 92-cm...
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Today's Colloquium: Catching Quenching Galaxies: Following the Roads Less...
© Katherine Alatalo (The Carnegie Observatories) Modern day galaxies are found to be in a bimodal distribution, both in terms of their morphologies, and in terms of their colors, and these properties...
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The host galaxy of a fast radio burst
© Image credit D. Kaplan (UWM), E. F. Keane (SKAO) A real-time fast radio burst discovered at the Parkes telescope has led to the first identification of a host galaxy and redshift for these mysterious...
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