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UniBoard2 ready for ARTS
© ASTRON Half November four UniBoard2 have been installed at the Westerbork telescope for the Apertif Radio Transient System (ARTS). Together (Jan-Pieter de Reijer, Sieds Damstra and the submitter) we...
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PhD Defence Shahrzad Naghibzadeh
© ASTRON On Friday December 7th, Shahrzad Naghibzadeh successfully defended her PhD thesis Image Formation for Future Radio Telescopes at TUDelft. Starting in 2014, Dr Naghibzadeh started her work on...
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SKA LFAA scale model
© ASTRON Mechanical Department In November we updated the central hall general presentation showcase with a new scale model of a 1:87 scale SKA LFAA station. In an attempt to offer visitors a clearer...
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End-to-end Testing of the ARTS Firmware
© J Hargreaves, P Donker Signals collected by the WSRT Apertif phased array feed may have finished their journey across the Universe, but they are about to begin a far more perilous voyage through the...
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25th anniversary of JIVE
© JIVE The technique of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) was not even 25 years old when it became clear that there was room for a dedicated operational institute to streamline VLBI efforts in...
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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 2019!
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ASTRON News Winter edition
© ASTRON In case you missed it. The Winter edition of the ASTRON News is now available. You can read the latest edition: hereA PDF version is available: here
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Scattering features and variability in the Crab pulsar
© Laura Driessen We have studied the pulsar profile of the Crab pulsar at 350MHz using WSRT data from 2012 to 2015. We found that besides variable scatter-broadening of the profile, additional features...
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ASTRON at AAS 233
© ASTRON From 6 - 10 January ASTRON is at the American Astronomical Society (AAS) Winter Meeting in Seattle, WA. We are here with the ASTRON booth and all the necessary information the AAS visitors...
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BALTICS final Conference and Workshop
© Ronald Halfwerk BALTICS is a H2020 twinning project running between January 2016 and December 2018. The partners are VIRAC (Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Center), ASTRON, and University of...
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Last DESP Project Progress Meeting of 2018
© ASTRON Every Tuesday we organize DESP project progress meetings wherein we discuss the progress of running development projects, focusing on the firmware and hardware design work. In just 30 minutes,...
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LOFAR Minecraft - LOFAR Enters the Virtual Universe
© Open access Fionn (11) and Luke (8) Teeling-Gallagher, son's of the I-LOFAR PI, have been busy constructing an international LOFAR station in Minecraft. Listen to a full description in their YouTube...
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Behind the Scenes: Mechanical Riddle solution
© Astron Mechanical Group It took some time [sic!], but to those of you who have been bothering the Boss of the Mechanical Group about the solution to the Mechanical Riddle, here it is: A. Blunt needle...
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Knowing the APERTIF room team
© APERTIF room team The core team (Agnes, Boudewijn, Eric, Ger, Marcel, Menno and Mieke) in the APERTIF room has been around for quite a long time and enjoyed working together so closely. At the start...
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View from the focus
© CC-BY-4.0 Tammo Jan Dijkema The nice bit of a transparent dish is that you can look through it to enjoy the view. While mounting a new 13cm feed into the Dwingeloo Telescope, we enjoyed this view of...
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Today's colloquium: Radio and laser tracking of planetary missions: past,...
© ESA At present, planetary missions rely largely on radio tracking data for their orbit determination, and the estimation of related (geodetic) parameters. Radio systems produce range-rate, range and...
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Celebrating 10 years of digital leave requests
© ASTRON This week marks the 10-year anniversary of the leave webform. As many of you may recall we used to have the so-called "verlofbriefjes". You put in a request by handing this (filled in for the...
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Chang'e-4 relay satellite and NCLE scale model
© ASTRON Mechanical Department Early January, the Chinese Chang'e-4 lander made a successful touchdown on the mysterious far side moon surface. Its communication with ground control takes place via the...
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Automated cable layout for LOFAR fields
© Thomas Tijsma / Tammo Jan Dijkema Every LOFAR field had a unique cable layout. Making a unique cable layout is a rather delicate process that takes a considerable amount of time when done manually,...
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A decade of Astrolunch
© Photo: Cees Bassa (ASTRON) Anything you do for a decade must be a lot of fun, right? I have organised Astrolunch since early 2009, and it is time to make way for the next generation. As of Jan 16th,...
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