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The Rise of ILOFAR
© School of Physics, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland In unseasonably favourable weather, the footprint for the latest LOFAR station (IE613) emerges from the ground at Birr Castle, Ireland. The ground...
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Radio jets in IC 5063 are observed to drive a warm and dense molecular outflow
© Dasyra et al/Astron The enigmatic nearby Seyfert galaxy IC 5063 was the first galaxy known (Morganti+ 1998) to harbour a fast outflow of atomic hydrogen driven by the radio jets and later...
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Inter-FPGA communication with Compaan
© ASTRON For the last few months, Bas Priest from Stenden University in Emmen has been working on expanding the board support package of UniBoard for Compaan. Compaan software can be used to port...
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Revision of the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope 2013-2016
© Jan-Pieter de Reijer Since 1996 the WSRT has successfully operated with the Multi Frequency Front End antenna and the IVC, DZB, TADU and PuMa back end electronics. In order to be fully prepared for...
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Today's Colloquium: Shedding new light on star formation in the early Universe
© Jacqueline Hodge Studies of star formation in the distant universe have made substantial progress over the last decade. While the initial progress relied largely on deep fields in the rest-frame...
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The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) preliminary data release
© Timothy Shimwell One of the main goals of LOFAR is to characterise the low-frequency emission from the northern sky in unprecedented detail. With this aim the LoTSS team is working towards mapping...
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Dome Seminar Design for Testability, November 17th
© H.J.Stiepel / ASTRON Electronic printed circuit board (PCB) designs nowadays may contain over 20 layers, may be very densely packed with components, operate at high clock frequencies, and may include...
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Leah Morabito succesfully defends her PhD thesis
© H.J. van Langevelde On September 13th Leah Morabito, successfully defended her PhD thesis in Leiden. The thesis on "Radio Emission Galaxies at Low Frequencies: high spatial and spectral resolution...
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Dutch Embassies visit ASTRON
© ASTRON Interest for ASTRON's activities from all over the world, this time�from Dutch Embassies in several countries in Europe, Africa and Asia. On 3 November, a group of around 20 representatives of...
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Today's Colloquium: Cosmic magnetism in the era of broad-band...
© Aritra Basu The Antennae galaxies are the nearest spiral galaxies undergoing a major merger. The magnetic field orientations in this merging system are shown as the yellow line segments. The magnetic...
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Telescooploop 2016
© Ger van Diepen, Eric Kooistra, Betsey Adams On November 10th the Personeelsvereniging organised the 3rd Telescooploop, a run or walk from the telescope in Westerbork to the telescope in Dwingeloo, a...
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The Terrors of Sinterklaas
© PV It can be rather terrifying for young believers to be called forward to face Sinterklaas during his yearly visit to our institutes. Not only do they tremble for the Big Red Book and the...
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Discovery of five low luminosity active galactic nuclei at the centre of the...
© S. Park For her summerstudent project Songyoun Park (Department of Astronomy, Yonsei, Korea) visited JIVE to work with ASTRON and JIVE astronomers Raymond Oonk, Jun Yang (now at the Onsala Space...
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Sjouke's Golem
© Madroon Community Consultants (MCC)In Jewish folklore, a Golem (/ˈɡoʊləm/ GOH-ləm; Hebrew: גולם) is an animated anthropomorphic being that is magically created entirely from inanimate matter...
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Welcome to JIVE, Latvia!
© VentA/VIRAC/JIVE The JIVE family has expanded again: after a process of negotiations that spanned more than three years, and in accord with other important radio astronomy developments on the...
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The LOFAR search for radio pulsars and fast transients in nearby galaxies...
© Beams and sensitivity plots: K. Mikhailov. Background images of nearby galaxies: CDS Portal The diverse populations of radio pulsars and rotating radio transients are only known in and close to the...
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Replacing the LOFAR station Control Units (LCUs)
© ASTRON The oldest LOFAR stations have been operational since end2009/early 2010. These stations still use the original server control systems which are therefore more than 6 six years old by now....
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APERTIF busy weeks
© R.H. van den Brink Two APERTIF Busy Weeks were initiated in 2016, which gave the team the opportunity to have a dedicated focus on APERTIF without distractions from other projects and to have great...
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Unboxing New RFI shielding cans
© ASTRON Mechanical Group Two neatly packed boxes arrived yesterday. What is their content? Each box contains 25 pieces of one of the two proto designs of new RFI shielding cans for the latest LNA for...
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MFAA development - system integration test
© ASTRON Within the MFAA front-end project we wanted to know if several separate modules would work nicely together. We had already built Vivaldi antennas as well as the LNA modules which will be...
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