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A Harbinger of Spring
© Madroon Community Consultants (MCC) Cognoscenti will recognize the 25m Dwingeloo telescope in the background. On March 10th, these sheep were stoically lined up against a bitter nor'easter. Today,...
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Feeding a newly born radio source
© ASTRON As radio-astronomers when we study active black holes we have the great advantage to have ways to determine their age. The more complicated way is to follow the expansion of the radio lobes,...
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LFAA AAVS1 groundplane deployment
© ICRAR/Curtin During a nice Australian summer week at the MRO, the groundplanes of all four AAVS1 stations were deployed. As we use rectangle sheets and the stations are setup as a circle, we use 94...
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Today's Colloquium: High Resolution Imaging of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect
© Tony Mroczkowski Clusters of galaxies are among the largest gravitationally-bound objects in the Universe, and are found at the intersections of the large filamentary structure known as the Cosmic...
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EUCARA 2016
© Wim de Vries On April 16 2016, it will be 60 years ago that the Dwingeloo radio telescope, then the largest fully steerable dish in the world, was inaugurated by Queen Juliana of The Netherlands....
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National SETI meeting - presentations online.
© ASTRON The first national Dutch SETI meeting was held a few weeks ago in Dwingeloo. Around 35 SETI enthusiasts attended but the numbers were further bolstered by the regular participation of quite a...
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Team ASTRON / SKA SA-NL Finished Cape Epic 2016
© JvL/Ewald Sadie/Cape Epic/Sportpics The Cape Epic is an 8-day mountainbike stage race held annually in South Africa, for two-person teams. It has the highest possible UCI classification -- "stage...
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Joining up with BALTICS
© orru@astron.nl BALTICS is the acronym for Building on Advanced LOFAR Technology for Innovation, Collaboration, and Sustainability. It is an educational program funded by the European Union, meant to...
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3rd MIDPREP/AAMID workshop in Cape Town
© Picture: Steve Torchinsky The emphasis of this MIPREP(*) workshop (7-11 March) was on widefield instruments for the SKA, and in particular on Mid Frequency Aperture Arrays (MFAA). Therefore, it was...
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The Dishwasher
© Rob Millenaar Out in the Karoo, where the SKA1-Mid precursor telescope MeerKAT takes shape, one learns to appreciate the forces of Nature. Unobstructed 360 degree views of a breathtaking landscape...
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APERTIF-12 LOG racks ready
© R.H. van den Brink Another 12 LOG subracks are ready for APERTIF. This is the second and last batch to complete 12 APERTIF dishes, nicely assembled on schedule by Sieds Damstra, Eim Mulder and Anne...
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Jason Hessels joins De Jonge Akademie
© ASTRON On March the 29th, in a ceremony at Het Trippenhuis in Amsterdam, ASTRON's one and only, Dr. Jason Hessels, was installed as one of 10 new members of "De Jonge Akademie" of the Royal Dutch...
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Today's Colloquium: Planet formation in the ALMA era: gas and dust in...
© Nienke van der Marel Protoplanetary disks are the birth cradles of planets, but the planet formation process is still not well understood. Of particular interest are the so-called transitional disks:...
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Today: Showing the film of the restoration of the 25m DRT
© ASTRON/CAMRAS Between 2012 and 2014, the Dwingeloo Radio Telescope (DRT) was restored. Jan Klaassens, Hilko Hof and Arie Burggraaf from amateur video club Spotlight in Hoogeveen made a documentary...
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Keeping track of ASTRON R&D boards
© ASTRON Now that complex boards like the ASTRON/JIVE UniBoard and UniBoard2 are being used all over the world, knowing the status and the location of those boards is increasingly important. With the...
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First LOFAR millisecond pulsar discovery
© Ziggy Pleunis, Cees Bassa, Jason Hessels, Vlad Kondratiev, Sotiris Sanidas & Alexander van Amesfoort We have discovered the first millisecond pulsar (MSP) with LOFAR in an observation of the...
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Girlsday Drawings 2016
© ASTRON + Girlsday-Girls 2016 As every year, ASTRON has participated in the yearly Girlsday. Today we present the wonderful artwork that the Girlsday-Girls have produced at ASTRON during live...
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Dwingeloo telescope and ASTRON on SchoolTV
© NTR 2015 As part of a small curriculum, SchoolTV has made an expert video on the electromagnetic spectrum where we used the Dwingeloo telescope, the NOVA optical bench and my research on pulsars to...
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Real-time dedispersion for fast radio transient surveys, using auto tuning on...
© Alessio Sclocco Dedispersion, the removal of deleterious smearing of impulsive signals caused by interstellar matter, is one of the most intensive processing steps in any radio survey for pulsars and...
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