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RadioHDL on OpenCores with a DOI
© ASTRON Recently we have published our RadioHDL package on OpenCores (see also daily image 3 July 2018).The RadioHDL package consists of a rich set of scripts that automate and ease the code...
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All hands on deck, Ciara!
© Henk Mulder, Jurjen Sluman, Richard Blaauw, Paul van Dijk, Menno Norden, Lute van de Bult, Peter Gruppen, Marco Drost As Ciara left her mark on the LOFAR stations, sending LBA groundplanes flying...
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Successful demonstration of ASTRONs Compact Receiver technology at the final...
© Peter Maat In the DISPERSE project ASTRON works on the development of an integrated electronic/photonic component for the transfer of signals from an antenna element to a central location. In...
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First OPC-UA-based prototype monitoring interface for a LOFAR2.0 Station
© ASTRON/NWO In LOFAR2.0, we want to maximize usage of available industry-standardized interfaces. These standards are often very mature, have many robust API software implementations, are widely used...
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Programming FPGAs in a High-Level Language
© ASTRON FPGAs are typically programmed in a Hardware-Description Language like VHDL or Verilog, which is difficult, time consuming, and error prone. The availability of a new toolkit allows...
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Colloquium (5 March 2020): Robert Main - Using pulsar scintillation as an...
© Robert Main Pulsars scintillate in frequency and time, due to interference between multiple images caused by multipath propogation through the Interstellar Medium. In the last 20 years, it was...
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Improved upper limits on the 21-cm signal power spectrum of neutral hydrogen...
© The LOFAR-EoR project Low-frequency observations of the redshifted 21cm line promise to open a new window onto the first billion years of cosmic history. It will allow us to directly study the...
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The making ofâ¦A pyramidal sinuous antenna for the Westerbork Synthesis...
© Odysseas Votsis, Jorrit Siebenga, David Prinsloo (text) / ASTRON mechanical dept. (images) Around thirty years after conception, the Multi Frequency Front End (MFFE) fitted to one of the 14...
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Realising the next Telescope Manager Specification System for LOFAR
© TMSS team TMSS (Telescope Manager Specification System) will be a brand-new software application for the specification, administration, and scheduling of LOFAR observations. Its realisation is...
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LOFAR images cosmic radio monsters
© Francesco de Gasperin Pareidolia is a tendency that pushes humans to see shapes in clouds or faces in inanimate objects. The picture shown here is a composition of four cosmic radio sources that can...
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Colloquium: How to make astrophysical jets - MHD simulations of accretion and...
© Christian Fendt Abstract: I will present results of MHD simulations investigating the launching of of astrophysical jets, covering both relativistic and non-relativistic flows. I will cover the...
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25 anniversary civil service Ina Lenten
© ASTRON On March 13, 2020 our colleague Ina Lenten officially celebrates her 25th anniversary civil service. Or should we say more than 30 years as shortly after finishing school, she already started...
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Energy flow and costs of utilities ASTRON Dwingeloo.
© Alex Benjamins Everywhere around us people talk about "the" energy transition. What does this mean for ASTRON?The government has made legislation that companies must comply with. This starts with...
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Diffuse Galactic Emission around the North Celestial Pole with NenuFAR
© The NenFAR Cosmic Dawn KP The NenuFAR project is a new low-frequency instrument (10-85 MHz) currently being built in Nancay, France. In its final specification, it will comprise 96 beam-formed...
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Coronavirus measures for ASTRON and JIVE
© ASTRON Health comes first. That is why ASTRON and JIVE are temporarily closed until at least Monday 6 April 2020. We work from home and do our best to continue our research and services as well as...
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Bertine 12.5 year anniversary
© . On Thursday 12 March Bertine from the Finance department celebrated 12.5 years of service at ASTRON.
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First Virtual Astro Coffee
© AO + JvL Wednesdays at 10:30 are a highlight of my week -- then I get to bellow "Astrooo Coffeeee" through the AG corridor. As currently only dust and tumbleweeds gather in this corridor, I was very...
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Prototyping @home
© Mechanical department In these strange times, ASTRON/JIVE/NOVA employees have to drastically adapt their way of working to the current bizarre situation. With everyone having their own creative...
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Triple FRB detection weekend at Apertif
© JvL With the first two Apertif papers now out (Oostrum et al. 2020 and Connor et al. 2020), we have been further improving our real-time system for finding Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). We were recently...
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No fever for Gemini-XH amidst Corona Virus
© ASTRON / CSIRO While social isolation due to the Corona virus forces us all to work at home only, testing of the Gemini-XH, the processing platform for the SKA-CSP-LOW, is still going strong.All...
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