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Pulsars/Westerbork on VPRO's Labyrint
© NTR-VPRO On Sunday 8 December the science program of VPRO, Labyrint, broadcast an episode on "Time", featuring pulsar research with Westerbork. In the 25-minute overview, our understanding of time is...
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Low Noise Tile project, first frontend results
© Roel Witvers The Low Noise Tile (LNT) project is an internal research project with the aim of making a phased array tile with a very low noise temperature. The work is a continuation of work which...
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1993-2013: 20 years of supporting VLBI in Europe
© JIVE On 21 December 2013, JIVE celebrates the 20th anniversary of its foundation. JIVE began life as an institute with a very small group of people under the leadership of Professor Richard...
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1993-2013: 20 years of supporting VLBI in Europe
© JIVE On 21 December 2013, JIVE celebrates the 20th anniversary of its foundation. JIVE began life as an institute with a very small group of people under the leadership of Professor Richard...
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The LOFAR core, on your desktop
© Screenshots from Maps.app (copyright Apple Inc) Pick a random astronomer, and they're likely to be carrying a Mac laptop. With the newly released upgrade (called Mavericks) to the operating system,...
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X-rays from the state-changing PSR J1023+0038
© @Patruno 2013 The pulsar PSR J1023+0038 is doing something peculiar: in June it disappeared as a pulsar and lit up in gamma rays. Unfortunately at the time it was too close to the Sun to observe with...
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Sinterklaas had gifts for LOFAR too on 5 December
© ASTRON There is many centuries old tradition in the Low Countries centred around giving presents on the eve of Saint Nicolas day, December 5th. It is one of a few traditions that is Roman-Catholic in...
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Season's Greetings from ASTRON
© ASTRON We wish you all a merry Christmas and a prosperous 2013!
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Seating Patterns II
© Madroon Community Consultants (MCC) This is the second picture in our series about spontaneous seating patterns in the new auditorium. This group consists of three "year-clubs" (1965/66/67) of a...
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Getting in the Mood for 2014
© Madroon Community Consultants (MCC) One rather compelling theory of dreams holds that they are the result of white noise, filtered by our highly personal reference frame of prejudices and...
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Pulsar with two white dwarf companions promises to test theories of gravity
© Astron Using the Green Bank Telescope, we have discovered a new fast-spinning pulsar that is unique: it is closely orbited by one white dwarf, and more distantly orbited by a second. We have measured...
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Thijs Coenen awarded PhD for thesis "Searching for pulsars with LOFAR"
© ASTRON On November 20, 2013, Thijs Coenen obtained his doctorate with a dissertation on the LOFAR pulsar searches. At the ceremonial defense, in the Agnietenkapel in Amsterdam, Thijs engaged in a...
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Observation of HI absorption line by APERTIF UniBoard
© ASTRON, 2013. We proudly present the first observation of an HI absorption line detected by the APERTIF system with a UniBoard backend! The (nearly) final APERTIF hardware, as it was used to do the...
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LOFAR Honey
© Anna ScaifeEditor's note: This image eloquently speaks for itself, so it does not need a blurb. Except perhaps to note that our British friends have a rather endearing tendency to ignore the other...
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A New Broom presents himself
© Astron In early December, the Board of NWO visited Astron and had incisive discussions with Astron board and staff. This was an excellent opportunity for Dr Ir Gert Kruithof, the new Head of Research...
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Apertif DCU sub-rack
© Astron Displayed is the down-converter sub-rack of Apertif in its present state. The main purpose of the subrack is to perform frequency translation of the 32 inputs, from the desired RF frequency...
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"If you want to predict the Future, you will have to invent it"
© ASTRON Yesterday, the ASTRON/JIVE/NOVA/DOME community was treated to the traditional New Year's speech by ASTRON Director Mike Garrett (the JIVE Director has already strutted his stuff at the...
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Four new participants DOME Users Platform
© DOME Today, Wednesday 15 January 2014, project DOME has reached another milestone. Four more parties are officially joining the DOME Users Platform: KxA (previously known as Dysi-SI), Transfer-DSW,...
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4th NL SKA Industry Information meeting
© NL SKA Office Today, a long overdue, 4th NL SKA Industry Information meeting is being held in Dwingeloo. Representatives from Dutch companies interested in playing a role in the SKA will hear of...
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The Hendrik C. van de Hulst Auditorium
© ASTRON The new auditorium has been in use for almost a year now but it is only recently that the room was formally named in honour of Prof. Hendrik C. van de Hulst (1918-2000). Henk was a young PhD...
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