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14th EVN Symposium and Users meeting
© 14th EVN Symposium and Users meeting During the week from 8-11 of October 2018, the 14th EVN symposium and user meeting took place at the Parque de las Ciencias in Granada, Spain. More than 170...
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14th EVN Symposium and Users meeting
© 14th EVN Symposium and Users meeting During the week from 8-11 of October 2018, the 14th EVN symposium and user meeting took place at the Parque de las Ciencias in Granada, Spain. More than 170...
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Uniboard Firmware Training
© Astron The daily image of today shows the happy faces of Arturs Orbidans and Karlis Luksis working on Uniboard firmware at ASTRON. Arturs and Karlis, from the Ventspils International Radio Astronomy...
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Colloquium - A low-frequency radio perspective on AGN
© Colloquium Almost every massive galaxy is believed to have a super-massive black hole in its centre, and there is clear evidence this can influence a galaxy’s evolutionary path. These super-massive...
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Non-Iterative Radio Telescope Design
© ASTRON / Top Foto How to design a radio telescope such that it can deliver the most science for a fixed budget? Traditionally one would start with requirements and a concept of operations, and after...
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cuFFS: A GPU-accelerated code for Fast Faraday Rotation Measure Synthesis
© Sridhar, Heald & van der Hulst (2018) Rotation measure (RM) synthesis is a widely used polarization processing algorithm for reconstructing polarized structures along the line of sight....
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Farewell Truus van den Brink
© astron After 17 years at ASTRON, Truus van den Brink will leave ASTRON. After tomorrow Truus will start enjoying her long �levensloop� break. It was October 2001 when Truus started at ASTRON as a...
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Colloquium - EVN-(e)MERLIN Stokes-I contour maps of the 1665-MHz flaring...
© Sandra Etoka Maser emission provides us with a powerful tool to study stars, both in their infancy and in the late stage of their evolution. It allows us to retrieve a wide range of physical...
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LOFAR Station Upgrade Architecture Review
© ASTRON The International LOFAR telescope is the world's largest low-frequency radio telescope, and through the recently awarded grant for the DUPLLO development project it will increase its...
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Weighing planets and asteroids using pulsars
© Caballero/MPIfR/ASTRON/NASA/JPL/IPTA A team of scientists from the International Pulsar Timing Array consortium, led by researchers from the MPIfR Bonn, with contributions by pulsar astronomers from...
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ASTRON's Sarrvesh Sridhar successfully defends his PhD thesis
© Sarrvesh Sridhar On the 29th of October, our colleague Sarrvesh Sridhar successfully defended his thesis "Non-thermal emission and magnetic fields in nearby galaxies" at the University of Groningen....
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Inaugural speech prof. Bentum
© ASTRON On Friday November 2nd, prof.dr.ir. Mark Bentum MBA held his inaugural lecture at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). Following the aims of his chair "Radio Science", prof. Bentum...
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ASTRON/UvA 2nd Year Research Practicum
© ASTRON Each year, a group of four enthusiastic students from the University of Amsterdam come to ASTRON to do their 2nd Year Research Practicum project. This year marks the 12th such group (it's...
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"Let's Gro To The Moon"
© ASTRON This year's "Let's Gro" festival, aimed at inspiring people to create an active, innovative, and sustainable future for the city of Groningen and its 'ommelanden', was held October 31 -...
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Prototype of the MICADO Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector
© NOVA/Astron The MICADO team in the NOVA group is currently testing a prototype for a cryogenic Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector. After a year of mechanical design, manufacturing and assembly, we...
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Science is Oerol
© ASTRONOerol is an annual theatre, music and visual arts festival held on the Dutch "waddeneiland" of Terschelling. The word "oeral" is from the local dialect and means "everywhere" or "overall"....
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LOFAR strides towards Mega-Mode Operations (and more!) with its new...
© ASTRON Usually, efficiently operating the world's largest Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope is a task enough to keep an astronomical observatory busy. But scientists and engineers at ASTRON...
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Colloquium - Late-phase radiative transfer of Type Ia supernovae
© Colloquium Type Ia supernovae are well-studied objects, largely because of their usefulness as precise distance indicators for cosmology and their role in the production of Fe-peak elements for...
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ADASS coming to the Netherlands in 2019!
© R. Pizzo A delegation from ASTRON and other astronomical institutes in the Netherlands is attending ADASS XXVIII this week, at the University of Maryland (USA). ADASS (Astronomical Data Analysis...
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Impressie Telescooploop 2018
© Ger van Diepen, Eric Kooistra, Alex Benjamins On Wednesday October 17th the Personeelsvereniging has organised the 4th Telescooploop, the ASTRON event to run or walk from one telescope to another....
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