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100 G flowing through the ASTRON building
© ASTRON In December 2016 the fiber infrastructure in the ASTRON building was heavily upgraded, thanks to the people of Facility Services. To be prepared for the future, the main labs have been...
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I-LOFAR now officially a member of ILT organization
© Photos: Henri Meulman, Nico Ebbendorf During the ILT Board meeting of 26th September 2017, the official signing of full membership of the Irish LOFAR consortium (I-LOFAR) in the International LOFAR...
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Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Director-General updates ASTRON about the SKA...
© public The SKA Director-General, Phil Diamond, visited ASTRON on Tuesday 24th October. He tries, as best he can, to periodically visit all of the major SKA partner institutes to talk to staff engaged...
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Responsive Telescope
© Jasper Annyas & Auke Klazema We invite you to share in the latest success of the Radio Observatory with us and a piece of cake. A long standing wish of our LOFAR users has been fulfilled with the...
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Today's Colloquium: Extremely Metal-Poor Dwarf Galaxies
© Mercedes Filho Extremely Metal-Poor Dwarf Galaxies (XMPs) are the best local analogs of the first generation of low-mass galaxies formed early on, possessing chemical abundances as close as possible...
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A team - that's how it works!
© Ilse van Bemmel In the short space of six months the Astronomy kwartet set has moved from an idea on a whiteboard to a fully functioning and attractive game. And, of course none of this would have...
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Responsive Telescope
© Jasper Annyas & Auke Klazema Today we invite you to share in the latest success of the Radio Observatory with us, and a piece of cake. A long-standing wish of our LOFAR users has been fulfilled...
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BALTICS RF course given in Latvia
© @Astron BALTICS is an educational program funded by the European Union. It is meant to share our expertise with the staff of Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Center (VIRAC) in Latvia, so that...
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I-LOFAR now officially a member of ILT organization
© Photos: Henri Meulman, Nico Ebbendorf During the ILT Board meeting of 26th September 2017, the official signing of full membership of the Irish LOFAR consortium (I-LOFAR) in the International LOFAR...
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One swallow does not a summer make, but it makes a nice photo!
© Photo: Thomas Jurges Only on my second day working for ASTRON (2017-07-04) I took this photo of the Dwingeloo telescope on my morning bicycle ride to work. I guess one could call this a lucky shot...
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I-LOFAR now officially a member of ILT organization
© Photos: Henri Meulman, Nico Ebbendorf During the ILT Board meeting of 26th September 2017, the official signing of full membership of the Irish LOFAR consortium (I-LOFAR) in the International LOFAR...
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One swallow does not a summer make, but it makes a nice photo!
© Photo: Thomas Jurges Only on my second day working for ASTRON (2017-07-04) I took this photo of the Dwingeloo telescope on my morning bicycle ride to work. I guess one could call this a lucky shot...
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BALTICS RF course given in Latvia
© @Astron BALTICS is an educational program funded by the European Union. It is meant to share our expertise with the staff of Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Center (VIRAC) in Latvia, so that...
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MATISSE ships to Chile
© NOVA Optical Infrared instrumentation group MATISSE, the mid-infrared interferometric spectrograph and imager for ESO's VLTI at Paranal, Chile, reached recently two important milestones. First, the...
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Today's Colloquium: Discovering the origin and nature of jets from accreting...
© Colloquium / public use There is a universal connection between the accretion and ejection phenomena that are observed in black holes across the mass scale, from stellar-mass black holes in X-ray...
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Blind self-calibration
© Stefan Wijnholds Blind calibration techniques can be used to calibrate arrays when no (accurate) source model is available, for example due to observing in a new frequency window or due to unexpected...
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Apertif imaging of the hydrogen in galaxies
© Astron Every weekend now, test observations are being performed with Apertif. Although the full system is not available yet (in terms of number of dishes, bandwidth, etc.), meaningful tests of the...
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ASTRON site back on the power grid!
© ASTRON Two months ago, on Wednesday 13 September, ASTRON had a serious main electrical power interface failure. Since then the ASTRON site received all its electrical power from an Atlas Copco QAS...
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Jubilee day
© ASTRON Today at 15.00 hours we will hold our first jubilee day celebrating the working anniversaries of 2017. Some colleagues celebrate their 12,5 years and others 25 years employment at ASTRON, NOVA...
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Today's Colloquium: Galaxy clusters in the LOFAR Two Metre Sky Survey
© LOFAR Surveys Key Science Project The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) is a deep 120-168 MHz imaging survey that will eventually cover the entire Northern sky. Each of the 3170 pointings will be...
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