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Zooming in on the host galaxy of the repeating fast radio burst
© Bassa, Adams, Maddox, Hessels At the beginning of this year we presented the localization of the repeating fast radio burst FRB121102. Ground based observations with the 8-m Gemini telescope on Mauna...
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Engineering of a cryogenic filter mount for MICADO
© NOVA The past six months Luuk Tigelaar worked as an intern on the development of a fixture for retaining an optical filter in a filter exchange mechanism. This mechanism is developed and build by the...
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The hidden life of a radio galaxy
© ASTRON Also radio galaxies have a cycle of life. They can get old and die, but in some cases they can also be reborn. Why is this interesting? First of all, we still don't know exactly what...
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Apertif Imaging Early Science Workshop
© Tom Oosterloo The Apertif Imaging team met the 6th and 7th of June to start planning for Apertif Imaging Early Science. We spent the first day discussing science interests and ideas, an especially...
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In memoriam: Ger de Bruyn (1948-2017): More than Tall
© ASTRON Ger struggled mightily to hold on until after WimSym77, of which he was the chief organiser. He succeeded, but on Sunday July 9th 2017 he had to give up the unequal battle with an aggressive...
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In memoriam: Ger de Bruyn (1948-2017): More than Tall
© ASTRON Ger struggled mightily to hold on until after WimSym77, of which he was the chief organiser. He succeeded, but on Sunday July 9th 2017 he had to give up the unequal battle with an aggressive...
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AJDI winner 2016: Paula Fusiara
© Madroon Community Consultants (MCC) The editors of the ASTRON/JIVE Daily Image are delighted that the new ASTRON Director is as great a fan of the AJDI as her reveredpredecessor. Virtually her first...
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RO Uitje 2017
© Images: R. Pizzo, M. van der Wiel, V. Moss The annual RO Uitje took place on Wednesday 5th July 2017. The day began very early in the carpark of Van der Valk, with the bus heading (mostly) directly...
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Session on roles and interactions for smooth LOFAR DRAGNET operations
© ASTRON, photo by Cees Bassa With the technical hurdles of DRAGNET in LOFAR operations behind us, we focused for a moment on softer matters before developing the next instrumental extension. DRAGNET...
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PhD defence Erik Vermij
© DOME The fourth of July, Erik Vermij successfully defended his phd research at the Delft University of Technology. He worked in the DOME project, focusing on novel hardware architectures supporting...
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1st Light for LOFAR station IE613 ! (I-LOFAR at Birr, Ireland)
© Fotos: Menno Norden, Henri Meulman On July 14th, 2017 the newly built International LOFAR station IE613 in Birr, Ireland had first light! The Low Band Antenna (LBA) system of this station showed for...
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WimSym77: Our Wizard and his Wife
© Madroon Community Consultants (MCC)WimSym77 has come and gone, and it was all we could have hoped for. The Van der Hulst auditorium at ASTRON was packed with admirers from all over the world, young...
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First HI images with Apertif
© astron Recent months have seen steady progress with Apertif, and more and more the system can be used to do real astronomical observations. One of the main changes that have been implemented is that...
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1st Light for LOFAR station IE613 ! (I-LOFAR at Birr, Ireland)
© Fotos: Menno Norden, Henri Meulman On 14 July, 2017, the newly built International LOFAR station IE613 in Birr, Ireland had first light! Congratulations to the entire I-LOFAR crew for achieving this...
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Irish LOFAR station IE613 successfully passed the SAT
© Fotos: Menno Norden, Henri Meulman After nearly seven weeks of hard work, the truly dedicated I-LOFAR crew have now finished building their own LOFAR station. They filled trenches with many...
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Sharpest groundbased images of jupiter and Saturn
© PIC-net team A team of experienced amateur astro-imagers recently spent a week on the observatory Pic du Midi (French Pyrenees) to work with the observatory's 1 meter telescope. It was built in the...
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Liquid Cooling Distribution
© ASTRON CSIRO and ASTRON have developed the Gemini board for the SKA-Low correlator and beamformer. The heart of the board is a Xilinx FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) which will burn over 100...
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The Group Photo
© ASTRON After a few years of no group photo, this year we decided to make a new group photo. So, during the annual ASTRON and JIVE mid-summer barbecue on 29 June 2017, we tried to get everybody on one...
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Sky and ground imaging with LOFAR LBA
© Vanessa Moss Last week, Michiel Brentjens gave Pietro Zucca, Sander ter Veen and myself a crash course in writing our own LOFAR imagers from scratch using Python. This meant going back to the very...
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NCLE: First Light
© ASTRON Last week, the first (of three) of The Netherlands China Long-wavelength Explorer (NCLE) boards, for which ASTRON is responsible and that will be shipped to China for testing on the Chang'e 4...
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