ERC Starting Grant Awarded to Dr. Aditya Parthasarathy
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Dr. Aditya Parthasarathy a prestigious and extremely competitive grant to pursue his research at ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy.
Radio waves leaking from large satellite constellations could jeopardize astronomical exploration
The LOFAR radio telescope has shown that satellites can unintentionally emit radio waves that interfere with the observations of radio telescopes. Satellites circle the globe in ever increasing numbers. Their radio emission could, if not addressed, close unique and scientifically valuable windows into the Universe. It is of crucial importance for the astronomy sector and industry to collaborate to overcome these issues and for the International Telecommunications Union to establish regulation to control this emission.
Pulsar clocks open new window on gravitational waves
An international collaboration of European astronomers, together with Indian and Japanese colleagues, have seen evidence for ultra-low-frequency gravitational waves, which is expected to originate from pairs of supermassive black holes found in the centres of merging galaxies. This is the result of more than 25 years of observations with the most sensitive radio telescopes in Europe and India, including the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT). In doing so, they have opened a new window on gravitational wave research. These gravitational waves contain information about the Universe's best-kept secrets. The research has been published in a series of articles in the professional journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
Astronomers discover Fast Radio Bursts that skewer nearby Galaxy
Astronomers have found five new Fast Radio Bursts with the upgraded Westerbork radio telescope array. The telescope images revealed that multiple bursts had pierced our neighbouring Triangulum Galaxy. This allowed the astronomers to determine the maximum number of otherwise invisible atoms in this galaxy for the first time.
SRCnet Tangerine planning at IAA
© Janneke de Boer
The SRCnet (SKA Regional Centre Network; see also daily image of 3 July this year) will develop the network of nodes needed to support the data access of the SKA, several teams have been set up to build prototypes for components and systems that will have to run in those systems. Team Tangerine focusses on the development of a science analysis platform.
In week 36, most of team “Tangerine” came together with SRCnet team “Coral” in Granada (Spain) at IAA to plan for the upcoming program increment (PI, the next 3 months).
For the upcoming PI, the team will focus on several things, including the way to access the catalog of processing services and the software distribution system. Next to this we will be working on building the user interface for the science platform.
In the picture, you see the IAA, the team members from Tangerine and Coral who were present at the IAA, hardworking Tangerines, and an overview of the work planned by Tangerine for PI20.
Open dag
Sun 08 Oct 2023
Op zondag 8 oktober organiseren ASTRON en Stichting LofarTafel samen met Het Drentse Landschap een open dag in de LofarZone tussen Buinen en Exloo, waar het hart ligt van LOFAR, de grootste radiotelescoop ter wereld! Onze open dag vindt dit jaar dus NIET plaats in Dwingeloo. Er worden excursies over natuur en astronomie gegeven, er […]
