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OLFAR at the 70th Astronautical Congress
© Astron / TU Delft / TU Eindhoven / NSO The 70th international Astronautical congress was held in Washington DC, USA this year. The IAC is one, perhaps THE biggest conference with exhibition for...
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An order of magnitude improvement: lessons from Australia on Epoch of...
© Nicole Barry et al. Radio interferometers are fast approaching detections of the 21 cm signal from the early universe. The latest Epoch of Reionization publication from the Murchison Widefield Array...
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Apertif at AstroFest
© ASTRON AstroFest is an annual tradition to bring together astronomers at ASTRON and JIVE to share their research. This year it was great to see multiple presentations on the many things people are...
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What does Gender have to do with Physics? (Colloquium by Prof. Tomas Brage)
© Tomas Brage What does Gender have to do with Physics? Physics is often seen, by Physicists not the least, as an objective Science and we believe we are surrounded by a âculture without cultureâ....
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Once upon a Time in the North
© Madroon Community Consultants There was a time when the yearly Nederlandse Astronomen Conferentie (NAC) was held on one of the islands in the North. The NAC series was started in 1945 to cement the...
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A spatially resolved CO outflow in IRAS 08572+3915
© none AGN feedback in a galaxy merger: Multi-phase, galaxy-scale outflows including a fast molecular blob ~6 kpc away from IRAS F08572+3915Paper accepted for publication in A&A. R. Herrera-Camus,...
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NWA-ORC program Kickoff Meeting with CORTEX
© ASTRON/NWO In 2018, NWO launched a new type of grant, called the NWA-ORC, where ORC stands for "Onderzoek langs Routes door Consortia" (Research along Routes by Consortia). This program invited...
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Colloquium - Rapidly Evolving Episodic Outflow in the Fastest Water Fountain
© José-MarÃa Torrelles Water fountains (WF) are evolved stars showing early stages of collimated mass-loss during transition from the asymptotic giant branch, providing valuable insight into the...
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PV Telescooploop with goatâs cheese
© ASTRON Last Wednesday, October 16, 2019 we had the PV Telescooploop. Already for the 5th time! About 27 colleagues and friends ran, walked or cycled back to the Dwingeloo Telescope near the ASTRON...
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A LOFAR search for pulsars in M31
© JvL Today appeared on arXivour search for low-frequency single and period pulses from the Andromeda Galaxy. We know that such bright, short radio bursts are emitted by sources at a large range of...
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What will we do without Henri Meulman
© Mr. Observer On the 6th of November we had to yearly ILT-TO meeting with all the international LOFAR station owners. Here we discuss a wide range of items like maintenance problems to single station...
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Gremlins
© Henk Mulder Imagine..You walk into the Astron building..Get a coffee..Walk over the bridge..Open the door to the control room..Turn on the lights..Turn on the monitors of the video-wall..Put down...
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Retirement(Teun Grit); Exit(43 years at ASTRON);
© Teun Grit Today, 43 years and 3 months after joining us, our esteemed colleague Teun Grit will leave ASTRON to enjoy his retirement.Teun joined the observatory back in 1976 as an bedieningstechnicus...
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General Affairs @ ASTRON
© ASTRON Prior to the AZ plenary of December 2019 the people working at the General Affairs department have been asked to mention a number of successes, facts they are proud of. One of them is shown in...
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Dwingeloo primary school visits telescope
© Tammo Jan Dijkema On 12 and 22 November, in total some 50 children of the local primary school visited the Dwingeloo telescope, as part of their night-themed lessons. This was group 5 (~ 8 years...
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SAGECal on a NVIDIA Jetson Nano
© Hanno Spreeuw 'Training a single AI model can emit as much carbon as five cars in their lifetimes'. Something similar could be said about calibration of radio interferometric data. The performance of...
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Happy Holidays from ASTRON
© ASTRON On behalf of our Board, Management Team and all of our staff, we wish you Happy Holidays and a wonderful 2020!
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A repeating fast radio burst source localized to a nearby spiral galaxy
© Marcote Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief, bright, extragalactic radio flashes. Their physical origin remains unknown, but dozens of possible models have been postulated. Though over a hundred FRB...
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Gala van de Sterrenkunde
© Bob Bronshoff + JvL On 17 December, a half dozen astronomers from JIVE and ASTRON put on their dresses and suits for the Gala van de Sterrenkunde 2019. At the Stadsgehoorzaal in Leiden this Gala...
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CORTEX Kicked off!
© ASTRON CORTEX is one of the first projects funded by the new Nationale Wetenschaps Agenda (NWA-ORC) scheme. A unique aspect of this funding scheme is that projects must strongly engage in both,...
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