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Live fringe-plots for Jive Uniboard Correlator
© screenshot by Harro Verkouter One of the applications developed for the versatile UniBoard computing platform(*) is a full FX-architecture VLBI correlator. The correlator firmware is developed by...
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An extraordinary binary system
© Cees Bassa, Gemma Janssen PSR J1024-0719 (FIRST radio image) is a seemingly ordinary radio millisecond pulsar (MSP) while 2MASS J10243869-0719190 (DSS2 optical image) is a seemingly ordinary main...
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LFAA AAVS1 concrete bases - site arrival
© ICRAR/Curtin The Local Infrastructure work package (LINFRA, lead: ICRAR/Curtin) of the SKA Low Frequency Aperture Array (LFAA) has been making impressive progress. This daily image reports on the...
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Astronomy Concert
© Jochem Kooi In my spare time I play the violin in KamerFilharmonie Der Aa, a symphony orchestra consisting of amateur players from the north of The Netherlands. This time we are brininging an...
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CEP3 cluster changes access policy
© ASTRON The CEP3 cluster allows LOFAR users to run data processing close to the CEP2 production cluster. The cluster has been active since 1.5 years and more than 200 time slots have been assigned to...
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The LOFAR Imaging Cookbook v.19 is out!
© Aleksandar Shulevski On June 13 2016, version 19.0 of the LOFAR Imaging Cookbook has been released. The first version of the manual was published more than 5 years ago, when the first LOFAR...
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The missing link: tracing molecular gas in the Outer Filament of Centaurus A
© Astron As part of the RadioLife project, we have made detailed observations of the so-called “Outer Filament" of the radio galaxy Centaurus A to study the effect of a radio jet blasting through a gas...
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Good to see an old friend
© Madroon Community Consultants (MCC) It's always nice to spot an old friend in the corridors of ASTRON. Dion Kant has built many systems for WSRT, LOFAR and SKA, and has represented us in the higher...
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MICADO Consortium Meeting at NOVA-ASTRON
© NOVA The ESO European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) has been approved for construction with a targeted first light in 2024. MICADO is selected as a first light instruments for the E-ELT, and in...
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The new generation
© NOVA As in every other institute during the summer holidays, in the corridors, labs and offices it is more quiet and peaceful than at other times. In these periods, occasionally, a couple of young...
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ASTRON new analog lab environment
© Nico Ebbendorf After 20 years we are saying goodbye to our lab furniture. Following the nice office floors in the new ASTRON building, it is time for a face-lift of our analog laboratory. This lab...
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Another piece of the puzzle: the fast HI outflow in Mrk 231
© Astron In the RadioLife ERC project we study the life cycle of AGN. This life cycle is regulated by the balance between how much, and how, matter a galaxy accretes and how much and how it expels. Gas...
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The Connecting Strength of Big Science Projects
© Organizing Committee@EUNL16 The NWO institutes ASTRON and Nikhef used their connections to fill a day of inspiring presentations showing the marvelous science, experiments, and their connections in...
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Pokemon at ASTRON
© . The Pokémon Go hype has also hit ASTRON, even before the game is officially released in The Netherlands. It even turns out that our favorite telescope is part of the game. The road towards the...
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Today's Colloquium: MeerKAT status update
© Oleg Smirnov MeerKAT Array Release 1 (AR1), with 16 dishes out of the full complement of 64 operational, has recently gone live in the Karoo desert, in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. I...
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Long-baseline images of a Survey field from the Long-Baseline Busy Week
© Neal Jackson, Adam Deller, for the Long Baseline Working Group Busy Week team. The LOFAR long baselines are capable of making maps at 0.3 arcsecond resolution, with sub-mJy sensitivity. The data...
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Traditional MIDPREP summer pancake dinner
© AvA One might wonder why the MIDPREP Pancake Party was held inside rather than in the bright Dutch summer light. This was because, starting with last year's event, the pancake dinner is traditionally...
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Satellite rescue by CAMRAS
© Erik Tiddens Since its beginning, CAMRAS has booked impressive results with using the 25m Dwingeloo Telescope (DT) for ham-radio EME contacts. After the recent restoration, this "Grande Dame" of the...
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Fringe-fitting in CASA
© (c) Des Small, 2016 Averaging over larger time and frequency intervals allows radio astronomers to observe fainter objects. In VLBI this is particularly challenging: due to the long baselines, small...
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In Memoriam Karin Spijkerman (1963-2016)
© ASTRON Na een kort maar hevig ziekbed is op 16 juli 2016 jongstleden onze collega Karin Spijkerman overleden in de leeftijd van 52 jaar. Karin was sinds 2008, als projectcontroller in dienst bij...
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