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Next generation distributed software and processing for LOFAR
© (Copyright: A. Mechev) LOFAR is a transformational pan-european radio telescope and a pathfinder for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). LOFAR enables efficient surveys of the sky, targeting important...
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A tale of two worlds
© Lesley Goudbeek & Paula Fusiara The electronics and mechanical worlds used to be relatively two different entities ... Separated, all alone and lonely, fully occupied with their tasks in their...
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Westerbork milestone!
© Henk Mulder, Richard Blaauw, Antonis Polatidis This month Westerbork Observers reached a milestone! Even after the end of the regular tied-array observations, the WSRT has continued to contribute to...
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Perentie - SKA Low Correlator and Beamformer
© ASTRON + CSIRO The SKA Central Signal Processor element is developed in a very international team. It is led by NRC (Canada) for both the SKA-Mid and SKA-Low. The sub-elements are designed by NRC and...
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A tale of Two Worlds
© Lesley Goudbeek & Paula Fusiara The electronics and mechanical worlds used to be two different entities. Separated, all alone and lonely, fully occupied with their tasks in their own field of...
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The view of Centaurus A from the Murchison Widefield Array
© Radio image by Natasha Hurley-Walker (ICRAR/Curtin) and the GLEAM Team. MWA tile and landscape by Dr John Goldsmith / Celestial Visions. Red indicates the lowest frequencies, green the middle...
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Ger's Twinkling Quasar
© astron One highlight of Ger's scientific legacy is the radio source J1819-3845, better known as "Ger's Twinkling Quasar". In the beginning of 1999, Ger, together with Jane Dennett-Thorpe, discovered...
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An unexpected Christmas package
© Paula Fusiara, Lesley GoudbeekWho doesn't like coming to their office in the morning and seeing an unexpected package? Indeed, I love unboxing the unknown... this rush of adrenaline streaming into...
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ASTRON Season's Greetings
© ASTRON On behalf of our Board, Management Team and all of our staff, we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We are looking forward to a great 2018!
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Season's Greetings from JIVE
© JIVE Season's Greetings from all at JIVE and the JIVE council! Wishing everyone a happy holiday and all the best for 2018!
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Milky Way simulations at SKA Calendar for December 2017
© Background image adapted from an artistic impression of the Milky Way (R. Hur t: NASA/ JPL/Caltech, J. Green: CSIRO , J. Urquhar t: U. of Kent). Simulated Galactic methanol maser distribution made by...
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Jan Idserda retired
© Harm-Jan Stiepel Jan Idserda, crowned as "Meester Instrumentmaker", has retired on 24 December 2017. Many colleagues, former colleagues, business relations and a former teacher of the LIS(*) said...
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Hiddo Hanenburg retired
© Ronald Halfwerk, Johan Pragt Hiddo Hanenburg has retired on 26 december 2017. Many colleagues have said goodbye during a nice party. Hiddo's career at ASTRON and NOVA started as mechanical designer...
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Stewing White Rabbits
© Paul Boven As part of the JIVE contribution to the SADT consortium, I have been working on the design of absolute time (UTC) distribution for the SKA1 telescopes. White Rabbit is an open standard and...
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Some changes at the R&D department of ASTRON
© R&D Last year, the R&D MT and some scientific members analysed the functioning of the R&D department. Several areas in the department were identified that could be improved in order to...
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The marvel of low-tech
© What's the best way of tracking progress and while doing so, motivating your team? This question has been raised several times in the APERTIF room. And now, thanks to Marcel, we have the ultimate...
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Joint effort in the construction of a Meccanoid XL personal robot 2.0
© R&D As already mentioned in one of the previous daily images, since September last year we are official member of the Innovation Cluster Drachten (ICD, high tech materials). To welcome us, the...
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A New Year, a renewed Mechanical Group at ASTRON R&D department
© Johan Pragt / Annemieke Janssen The Mechanical Group is partially renewed and back on full strength now. The group consists of two different disciplines: Mechanical R&D and Prototyping Group...
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Improving pipeline description methods, take 2
© - As already advertised last month, the Prefactor calibration pipeline has been ported to the Common Workflow Language (CWL). During the project meet-up on 8 January, Gijs Molenaar presented the...
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