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Colloquium (4th July 2019): Gravitational lensing science challenges in the...
© Giorgos Vernardos Gravitationally induced light deflections (lensing) is a phenomenon occurring at all scales when there is a sufficiently compact mass â from galaxy clusters to stars and planets...
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WEAVE Large Integral Field Unit
© (c) Horst 2019 The WEAVE Spectrograph is currently being built for the William Herschel Telescope on La Palma by a large pan-European consortium that includes NOVA-ASTRON. One part of the...
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First-light for the NenuFAR Cosmic Dawn KSP
© CC BY-NC-SANenuFAR is a low frequency (10 - 85 MHz) radio telescope in Nançay, France. It currently consists of 56 stations of 19 dipoles each, all within a 400-metre diameter circle, with plans to...
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SCADA Conference Europe 2019 (Milan)
© Henk Mulder This year, ASTRON was present at the SIMATIC SCADA Conference Europe 2019 (formerly WinCC OA User Days, it is the new community event combined the WinCC Specialists conferences and the...
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Tomorrow's Colloquium (11 July 2019): Simulating VLBI observations of black...
© F. Roelofs The recently published images of the black hole shadow in M87* by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration open up a new avenue for black hole research and VLBI imaging. In order to...
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Goodbye Jan Slagter, goodbye friend
© ASTRON Op 21 juli a.s. zal Jan Slagter na meer dan 45 jaren trouwe dienst i.v.m. het bereiken van de pensioengerechtigde leeftijd ASTRON verlaten.Jan maakte op 1 juni 1974, als stagiair in zijn...
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"Detailed studies of low-redshift AGN" Meeting in Ireland
© Copyright 2019 Marisa Brienza. All Rights Reserved. In June, the "Detailed studies of low-redshift AGN" working group met for three days at University College Dublin, Ireland. One day of the meeting...
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Students developing
© Elfi Dijkstra It is great to see how students develop at school, social life, at ASTRON, NOVA, â¦. It is great to see how students develop products and instruments.Students do have the future...
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COBALT2.0 is ready for use
© ASTRON We have successfully replaced the GPU-cluster of the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR). The new powerful cluster, COBALT2.0 is now ready for use and replaces the old âheartâ of LOFAR. This makes...
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Origin of the off-pulse emission from pulsars!
© B. Marcote & Y. Maan Pulsars typically exhibit radio emission in the form of narrow, periodic pulses originated from confined regions in their magnetospheres. A potential presence of...
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Dwingeloo downloads solar eclipse image from lunar orbit
© Harbin Institute of Technology / CAMRAS / DK5LA This image, like our previous image, shows Earth and Moon, photographed from the Chinese microsatellite DSLWP-B (LongJiang-2) in lunar orbit. A very...
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Training the next generation of support scientists
© JIVE The second edition of the ASTRON/JIVE âTraineeship in Science Operations with Massive Arraysâ will soon be completed on 26 July 2019. The goal of the traineeship, which is sponsored by...
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Bonn-Dwingeloo meeting
© JIVE Very long baseline interferometry offers unprecedented resolutions in radio astronomy and is under continuous development. For the past two decades regular meetings have been organised between...
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Visit to SURFsara
© ASTRON On 20 June 2019, the trainees following the " ASTRON/JIVE Traineeship in Science Operations with Massive Arrays " (Benedicta Woode, Noah Chanka, Sumit Jaiswal, and Ziad Modak) visited SURFsara...
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ASTRON News Sumer 2019
© ASTRON The Summer edition of the ASTRON News is now available. You can start reading here. We hope you enjoy reading the summer edition of the ASTRON News and we hope everyone has a great summer!The...
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New pulsars discovered with LOFAR
© Cees Bassa on behalf of the LOTAAS collaboration With the LOFAR Tied-Array All-Sky Survey (LOTAAS) we are covering the entire Northern sky with tied-array beams from the Superterp, searching for...
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Successful Veni Grant for Joe Callingham
© public Our de Bruyn postdoctoral fellow Joe Callingham was recently awarded the highly-competitive Veni grant by the NWO. NWO selects Veni laureates on the basis of the following criteria: quality of...
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Impact of interference on 21-cm EoR analyses
© The LOFAR EoR team Using the LOFAR telescope to detect 21-cm signals from neutral Hydrogen in the very early Universe (z=6-10), from a period called the "Epoch of Reionization" (EoR), requires...
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The LOFAR observation of Type III radio burst
© Peijin Zhang, Pietro Zucca Solar Type-III radio burst is a kind of strong radio burst with fast drift rate. It is excited by the energetic electrons injected into the corona through open...
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'Code oranje'
© Designed by Bearfotos / Freepik A weather forecast for temperatures between 33 and 39°C, a weather alarm and historical temperature records... Good reasons for paying extra attention to the...
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