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Beware of the PV, it locks its members up!
© None Are you afraid of tight spaces, being shouted at, being tied up or seeing blood-spattered walls? Moreover, do you like solving puzzles and working as a team? If your answers are no and yes (in...
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'top astronomy requires top technics' - internship event Innovation Cluster...
© ASTRON As a proud member of Innovation Cluster Drachten (ICD)* we were happy to host a socalled ICD Internship Event. Our trainees Channah Vogel, Jesper Spraakman and Thijs van der Knaap...
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Farewell Ronald Nijboer
© ASTRON Almost exactly 14 years after the day he started(*) working at ASTRON, we say goodbye to our colleague Ronald Nijboer as he leaves ASTRON for other pastures(**), outside of astronomy. In all...
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First observations through a tied-array beam of Apertif
© Yogesh Maan and the ARTS team Exploiting the collective sensitivity of WSRT, by in-phase adding the voltage streams from individual dishes, is at the heart of time-domain science goals with Apertif....
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Dwingeloo - Westerbork 1977-1978
© Drents Archief / Peter Veen and Dick Hoogenraad Recently, I stumbled upon a film from 1977/1987 created by Dick Hoogenraad (who worked at ASTRON, then Stichting Radiostraling van Zon en Melkweg) and...
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Het Logboek is doing well in Australia
© Madroon Community Consultants (MCC) While on a quick tour of Australia, you editor noticed a copy of The Journal (Het Logboek) by "our" Anke den Duyn in the hands of Prof Ron Ekers, an illustrious...
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Supporting radio astronomy in Ghana
© Ross Burns Young radio astronomy trainees contribute to activities of the recently converted radio telescope in Kuntuse, Ghana. The station was acquired from a telecommunications company after it...
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LOFAR data quality inspection using machine learning
© ASTRON / NLeSC In modern radio telescopes, System Health Management systems are crucial for detection and identifying system errors. Due to the increasing scale and complexity of the systems...
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Today's colloquium: The different regimes of accretion and feedback in...
© M. Boeck (2012), PhD thesis Compact accreting objects like black holes (BHs) and neutron stars (NSs) concentrate their mass on extremely compact scales and are found across the entire Universe. In...
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The effect of the ionosphere on ultra-low frequency radio-interferometric...
© M. Mevius Calibration of LOFAR low band data is particularly difficult due to the ionosphere, which effects become increasingly important towards lower frequencies. The low signal-to-noise regime of...
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NCLE towards the moon (May 21st, 2018)
© A.J. Boonstra / ASTRON In the middle of the night, after half an hour bus ride, we arrive at the Xichang Space Center. Apart from soft music and staccato speaker-messages from the launch site it is...
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Recipe for a successful brainstorm
© Jesper Spraakman, Koos Kegel, Jeroen Herrewijnen, Sjouke Kuindersma, Gijs Schoonderbeek, Paula Fusiara; BrainBricks from SunIdee Do you want a huge number of creative ideas in a short amount of time...
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En route for NCLE
© Photos: ASTRON / RH Caught in action! Pictured here are ASTRON designers Mark Ruiter and Sieds Damstra fully committed to designing and routing the printed circuit board for NCLE's Low Noise...
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e-ASTROGAM: A space mission for MeV-GeV gamma-ray astrophysics
© Benito Marcote e-ASTROGAM is a breakthrough Observatory space mission dedicated to the study of the non-thermal Universe in the photon energy range from 0.3 MeV to 3 GeV. The mission is based on an...
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Colloquium - Measuring spatial scales in the line-to-continuum ratio from...
© Colloquium Direct detection of evolving neutral Hydrogen structures from the Cosmic Dawn and Reionization Epochs (EoR) will reveal the nature of the first stars and galaxies as well as complete our...
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ARP117 (IC983) and ARP79 (NGC5490C)
© astropix.nl IC 983 (AKA Arp 117, IRAS 14077 + 1757, MCG 3-36-68, PGC 50577 en UGC 9061) is a large face on spiral that is listed in "Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies" as number 117. It is...
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2018 SKA-NL Science Meeting
© ASTRON On May 24th, 50 participants attended the 2018 Square Kilometre Array Netherlands (SKA-NL) Science meeting. The meeting was held at ASTRON in Dwingeloo and organised to give participants...
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First SKA-Low Prototype Station Completed On Site
© ICRAR/Curtin University A complete prototype station of antennas for the future SKA-low telescope has been completed and is being tested at the SKA site in Western Australia. In an important...
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Systems Engineering Course
© ASTRON Today's daily image depicts the participants of the Systems Engineering course currently held at ASTRON. The instruments we are developing and operating are becoming increasingly more complex...
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PV Event: Drone Clinic (23-05-2018)
© PV ASTRON / JIVE On Wednesday May 23th, a group of 20 PV members went to Eelde for a Drone Clinic at the Omni-Drones Academy. At Omni Drones the members split up in two different groups. One group...
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