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Today's Colloquium: Radio emission of binary stars in the AB Doradus moving...
© Rebecca Azulay We present a study of the radio emission and kinematics of a sample of stars belonging to the AB Doradus moving group through VLA and VLBI observations at frequencies of 5 and 8.4 GHz....
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APERCAL Unleashed!
© ASTRON On 27/2-1/3, the Apertif Commissioning survey team had the first Busy Weak, organised by Danielle Lucero and Bjorn Adebahr. There were two main goals. The first goal was for every member of...
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Best paper award at the IEEE Aerospace conference in Big Sky, Montana, USA
© Mark Bentum The IEEE Aerospace conference is the biggest conference in the field of Aerospace Engineering in the world. Over 800 attendees from academia and industry come together every year in the...
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The heart of the Orion Nebula
© Rik ter Horst This image shows the central area of the Orion Nebula, one of the most magnificent astronomical objects visible at the night sky... A 40 cm F/3 Dobsonian telescope has been used to...
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Cloudify Casa with Jupyter
© Aard Keimpema, Des Small The size of astronomical datasets has increased dramatically over the years; terabyte sized datasets are no longer an exception. This trend will only accelerate; the SKA is...
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Today's Colloquium: The quest for particle-accelerating colliding-wind...
© Micha�l de Becker Massive stars are extreme stellar objects whose properties allow for the study of some interesting physical processes, including particle acceleration up to relativistic velocities....
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BlackGEM prototype being tested in Nijmegen
© Paul Groot The MeerLICHT telescope - prototype for the BlackGEM array - is currently being tested on-sky at the Radboud University in Nijmegen. The telescope was built by the NOVA Optical-Infrared...
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CEP2, The end of an unruly workhorse
© RO, RUG CIT On January 19th, we celebrated the delivery of our new CEP4 cluster of computers. It replaced the CEP2 cluster, which has been used to process LOFAR data from April 2011 until December...
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The heart of the Soul Nebula
© Albert van Duin The Soul Nebula, AKA Westerhout-5, Sharpless 2-199 or LBN667, is a big star forming region in the constellation of Cassiopeia. W5 is a radio source within this nebula. But this image...
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First light with JIVE Uniboard Correlator!
© JIVE The JIVE Uniboard Correlator (JUC) is an FPGA-based correlator that can correlate two polarizations of four 16 MHz subbands for 32 stations on a single board, among other modes. The correlation...
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Today's Colloquium: Molecular gas in typical low-mass star-forming galaxies
© Claudia Cicone The cold phase of the interstellar medium has a central role in galaxy growth and evolution. In normal galaxies following the so-called "main sequence" of star-forming galaxies, the...
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Old news: newspapers about building the Dwingeloo Telescope
© Delpher Many evenings can be spent browsing around in Delpher,, a site with historical Dutch newspapers, for example looking for old news regarding the Dwingeloo Telescope. In this image we present...
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INAOE in Mexico starts Mirror Polishing for WEAVE Spectrograph
© INAOE INAOE is official partner within the WEAVE project and responsible for producing optics for the Spectrograph. Last week, they started the polishing of the large (670 mm diameter) spherical...
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Twins of the Dwingeloo Radio Telescope
© MRATHS Some of you may recognize the telescope above as having the same design as the Dwingeloo Radio Telescope (DT). This is correct; the design of the DT was exported to the UK, where Dr Hey, of...
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Octopus with vacuum tentacles
© Menno Schuil An octopus with vacuum tentacles holds aluminium plates during milling of the WEAVE spectrograph parts. Already 80 plates are produced with the octopus. The octopus is invented, designed...
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Today's Colloquium: Athena, the Advanced Telescope for High-Energy Astrophysics
© Artist impression of the Athena mission (courtesy ESA) Athena is the ESA mission to study the Hot and Energetic Universe. It has been selected as second large-scale mission for a launch in 2028. The...
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R&D team outing 2017 to NEWAYS Ljouwert
© ASTRON Wednesday 5 April we had our yearly R&D team outing. This year we went to Ljouwert, the Capital of Fryslan province! Our organizing committee, consisting of Arthur Coolen & Martijn...
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Vapour Phase Soldering
© ASTRON Currently, the R&D department is assembling some prototype PCB's (Printed Circuit Boards) for the NCLE project. Some of the components however, are hard to solder by hand because all...
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Department of Space Engineering at TU Delft visits JIVE
© JIVE On 4th April JIVE welcomed a group of just over 40 people from the TU Delft Department of Space Engineering to Dwingeloo. The visit was part of the continued collaboration between the TU Delft...
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TMS III is out!
© TMS In 1995, the new head of ASTRON R&D blithely suggested that we should write an update on the Bible of our trade, which had appeared in 1986. Since we had LOFAR and SKA to build, we had the...
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