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28-05-2010
APERTIF fully funded!!!
| Submitter: | Tom Oosterloo |
| Description: | NWO has announced that it will fund the APROPOS proposal with 2.5 Meuro. This proposal was submitted to the NWO-Groot programme last summer and requested funding of the correlator, calibration/reduction pipeline and the data archive of APERTIF. With this result, together with those of several earlier successful proposals, funding is now secured for the entire APERTIF upgrade of the WSRT!!! This is a very important milestone. This year we celebrate that the WSRT became operational 40 years ago. Due to the many upgrades over the years, the WSRT has been at the forefront of radio astronomy over its entire life. Now that it is certain that APERTIF will be built, the WSRT will continue to be one of the most advanced radio telescopes in the world for many years to come. see also http://nwo.eu/nwohome.nsf/pages/NWOP_85TG4B (The picture above shows Laurens Bakker explaining the ins and outs of the APERTIF phased-array feed system to a number of external experts). |
| Copyright: | astron |
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