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.
Jason Hessels, Professor of Observational High-Energy Astrophysics at the University of Amsterdam and Chief Astronomer at ASTRON, has been awarded a €3.5 million ERC Advanced Grant to search for the origin of fast radio bursts. Among other things, the research money will be used to develop new hardware to set up a coordinated network of European radio telescopes to study repeating FRBs in more detail.
We have created an animation, which briefly explains the workings of our LOFAR radio telescope.
The 78th edition of the Nederlandse Astronomen Conferentie (NAC) will be held this year in the Westcord WTC hotel in Leeuwarden from 15 to 17 May.
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Both lessons started with Elfi Dijkstra giving a short introduction about ASTRON and NOVA, and her work there. After that, the classes were divided into four groups which visited and participated in the following experiments: laserlight and mirrors, vacuum chamber, doppler-ball, and black-hole experiment.
Although we weren't able to get every single high schooler excited, we did manage to get some of them interested in astronomy and what we do. We also were also able to tell them something about the internships we have to offer.
We set out to become more visible to these children (and their teachers) and to show them a bit about the work that we do here. In that, we succeeded, having fun along the way.
Mon 06 Nov 2023 - Thu 09 Nov 2023
De cursus Toegepaste RF-techniek bestaat uit een theoriegedeelte (75%) en hands-on sessies in ons eigen lab (25%).
Deelnemers aan deze cursus dienen een hbo werk- en denkniveau te hebben. De deelnemer kent de basisbegrippen van elektronica. Parate kennis van wiskundige concepten is niet vereist, maar komt wel aan de orde bij de transmissielijntheorie. In de cursus wordt ook complexe rekenwijze toegepast.
