The Eighth International VLBI Technology Workshop will take place from 18-20.11.2019 in Sydney, Australia and will be hosted by CSIRO. Registration is now open. The International VLBI Technology Workshops have evolved from the highly successful 10-year series of International e-VLBI workshops. The scope of the technology workshops aims to encompass all areas of hardware and software development [...]
The call for proposals for the Global 3mm Array is open. The deadline for VLBI proposal submission is August 1, 2019, 21:00 UT. More information here.
The European Week of Astronomy and Space Science (EWASS, formerly JENAM) is the annual meeting of the European Astronomical Society (EAS). In addition to plenary sessions and the award of prestigious prizes, the conference hosts many symposia held in parallel, as well as special sessions and meetings. EWASS2019 took place in Lyon, France from 24 [...]
The RadioNet newsletter 6/2019 issued today. Read here.
A team of astronomers led by Benito Marcote (JIV-ERIC) have found the ‘smoking gun’ of an ‘orphan’ gamma-ray burst afterglow. Gamma-ray bursts are brief, intense flashes of gamma-rays that are difficult to detect. They are believed to be linked to cataclysmic events such as the collapse of a massive star, or the collision and merger of [...]
Call for e-MERLIN proposals cycle-9 is open. e-MERLIN requests proposals from the international astronomical community for observations to be made during Cycle-9. Proposals are competitively peer-reviewed under standard STFC rules by the PATT e-MERLIN Time Allocation Committee. Allocation will be made on the basis of scientific merit and technical feasibility alone. The full call for proposals, including [...]
– open until July 1, 2019 – RadioNet is a consortium of 27 institutions in Europe, the Republic of Korea and South Africa, integrating at European level world-class infrastructures for research in radio astronomy. RadioNet has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 730562, in order [...]
The 6th International Scientific Conference BAASP will take place at Ventspils University College and is organized by the Engineering Research Institute “Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Center” (VIRAC) of Ventspils University College. This year’s specific themes of BAASP are astrophysics, new generation radio electronics, and remote sensing. The conference focuses on the Baltic region but participants from other countries are also [...]
Cordis (EU Reasearch Results) has nominated jointly RadioNet and BlackHoleCam as EU-Project-of-the-month, for their contribution to the image of the black hole. The ERC funded BlackHoleProject played a major role in the EHT collaboration, whereas RadioNet helped Europe maintain and develop cutting-edge radio astronomy infrastructures that led to this fantastic achievement. Read more
IRAM invites applications for two postdoctoral research positions at IRAM/Granada. Review of applications will begin in July 2019. The appointments are initially for one and for two years, with the possibility of extension to a further year each. Applications should be sent as one pdf file to the IRAM personnel department, inquiries should be addressed to the station [...]