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A new road map for the Radio Observatory processing pipelines
© E. Orru' on behalf of the Team Green Since May 2018 the Radio Observatory has started a new projected aimed at implementing state of the art calibration processing pipelines on production scales....
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Jan-Willem Steeb wins URSI Student Paper Competition!
© Jacki Gilmore / Stefan Wijnholds / Curtin University From May 28 to June 1, the URSI Atlantic Radio Science Conference (AT-RASC) was held in the pleasant place of Gran Canaria, Spain. This URSI...
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Today's colloquium: eROSITA - The Next X-ray All Sky Survey
© MPE The X-rays are amongst the wavebands where the sky is least well known. There exists only one shallow survey, made by the ROSAT satellite in the 1990s in the soft X-rays. This will change with...
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Taking the JIVE experience
© Ross Burns As part of efforts to develop radio astronomy operations expertise associated with African radio astronomy ahead of the SKA, JIVE and ASTRON are currently hosting two trainees on the LOFAR...
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Experiential learning!
© Astron From May 14th to 25th, 2018 two young Latvian engineers from Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Centre (VIRAC), which is the scientific institute of Ventspils University of Applied...
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Visit Minister Van Engelshoven
© ASTRON Last Monday, 4 June, we were honored with the visit of Minister Van Engelshoven of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. The visit started with a tour at the LOFAR core. Here, the...
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The organiser of the Applied Radio Frequency technology course
© photo: Simone Kajuiter Since 2002, ASTRON has been organising three-day courses on applied Radio Frequency technology, also known as the RF course. Over the years, more than 350 engineers and...
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Today's colloquium: Knottiness of X-ray jets: testing the obstacle-in-jet model
© Sarka Wykes Light jet interacting with a 3 Gyr AGB star at its highest mass-loss rate. The jet plasma is flowing in from the left. The wake shows von Karman-like vortices, which in three dimensions...
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The external tour for the interns
© Channah Vogel On the 6th of June, most interns paid a visit to the Westerbork Radio telescope. Every nook and cranny of the area was explored, under the guidance of tour guide Jan-Pieter. The interns...
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Arts Tabs First Light
© J Hargreaves On 9th May, the DESP group handed over a version of the ARTS firmware with Tied Array Beams (TABS) enabled to our astronomer colleagues for initial testing. We expected to get some...
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SOS Team's Visit to SURFsara in Amsterdam
© ASTRON As part of the ASTRON/JIVE SOS traineeship programme in LOFAR Science Operations, there was a visit to SURFsara in Amsterdam on June 06, 2018. This was to introduce the trainees (Bernard and...
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Curiouser and curiouser : Multifrequency behaviour of the anomalous events of...
© Authors, CC BY-SA Pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron stars, which produce intense beams of radio emission, like Galactic lighthouses. As the beam crosses a telescope, it produces a characteristic...
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Colloquium - Active Galaxies in the local Universe
© Colloquium This talk aims to investigate three important phenomena in the study of active galactic nuclei: how AGN are triggered, how they vary throughout their lifetimes, and how they can effect...
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Klokhuis Vragendag (Question Day) 2018 @ NEMO
© JvL Kids with burning questions that want a different answer than "that's just the way it is" or "just because" can save them up for the annual Klokhuis Vragendag at NEMO. Two of the questions from...
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Roadtripping Mechanical Groupies
© ASTRON Mechanical Department On Friday the 8th of June, the Mechanical Group took off for a road trip to Amsterdam. The destination for the day was our fellow department at ASTRONs sister NWO...
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An early start to planet formation
© Daria Dall'Olio Planets are common. Beyond the eight in our own solar system, thousands more have already been found orbiting other stars. Studies are now showing that almost every star must have at...
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RadoAstron in Dwingeloo
© Lavochkin Science and Production Association; JIVE From 25th-29th June 2018 ASTRON and JIVE are co-hosting the 31st RadioAstron International Science Council (RISC) and Science Working Groups’...
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Colloquium - X-ray, mm and radio wavelength observations of the nuclear...
© Colloquium According to co-evolutionary scenarios, nuclear activity and star formation play relevant roles in the early stages of galaxy formation. I will show how it is possible to exploit...
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The ASTRON/JIVE summer students of 2018
© Cees Bassa The 2018 ASTRON/JIVE summer students have arrived! This year we are hosting six summer students from all around the world. From left to right on the picture are Daysi (Ecuador), Alexander...
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DAB survey (and many more) in Stellarium
© CC-BY-4.0 Tammo Jan Dijkema The latest version of the (free, open source) planetarium program Stellarium has the great new feature of showing surveys in the HIPS format. HIPS (Hierarchical...
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