The International LOFAR Telescope (ILT) is preparing for a significant upgrade, LOFAR2.0, for which a Large Programme Portfolio will be composed. Find here the schedule and Zoom links for the online information sessions that will take place on Thursday, 7 October 12-15 UT & Tuesday, 12 October, 7-10 UT The full science community is invited [...]
The Call for Proposals for the East Asian VLBI Network (EAVN) for the 2022A semester is open. Submission deadline: November 1, 2021, 8:00 UT Image: Map: Location of EAVN sites, including the Korea-Japan Correlation Center at KASI (Korea) and Mizusawa VLBI observatory (NAOJ, Japan), overlaid on 'the Blue Marble' image (credit of the ground image: [...]
IRAM hosted the virtual edition of the 50th Young European Radio Astronomers Conference (YERAC) – on 24 - 27 of August this year. The 4-day event provided an opportunity for doctoral students and young postdoctoral researchers to present their research on various radio astronomical subjects. It was attended by 52 participants from different countries, as [...]
The e-Merlin call for proposals for Cycle 13 is now open. Details specific to Cycle 13 are available in the Cycle 13 proposal call PDF. Use the e-MERLIN proposal tool to submit your proposal. Submission deadline: October 27, 2021, at 23:59:59 UT
Science.org published on September 23, 2021 an article on how Black holes change over time. In 2017, astrophysicists took the first photo of a black hole, which lies 55 million light-years away from Earth in the Messier 87 (M87) galaxy—and noticed a shadow covering the red-hot plasma flowing into it. Now, for the first time, [...]
After almost a decade of work, an international team of astronomers has published the most detailed images yet seen of galaxies beyond our own, revealing their inner workings in unprecedented detail. The images were created from data collected by the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), a radio telescope built and maintained by ASTRON. LOFAR is a [...]
Under the Horizon Europe Framework Programme, the EC will open on January 19, 2022 the call Next generation of scientific instrumentation, tools and methods. This call aims at delivering innovative scientific instrumentation, tools and methods, to advance the state-of-art of European RIs, and to show transformative potential in RIs operation. The related developments should lead RIs to support [...]
The call is primarily intended to groups within the ORP project, while petitions from externals can also be considered with less priority. To apply, please fill in the form that can be accessed in this link and submit it by email to andrea.bianco@inaf.it and francisco.garzon@iac.es. Deadline for submissions is 8 October 2021.
In a press release from Sep 3, 2021, the ERC published preliminary facts on figures on the submitted proposals for advanced grants 2021 . The ERC received 1,735 proposals, a decrease of 35% compared to the 2020 call. Physical Sciences and Engineering attracted the highest number of applications (764). Women submitted 20.8% proposals, which is 1.5% [...]
The Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica invites scientists to participate in the 2022A Call for proposals of observing time at the national radio telescopes: - the 32-m Medicina antenna - the 32-m Noto antenna INAF plans to award for the next semester 2022A: Medicina: 2500 hours Noto: 2000 hours These amounts might be subject to modification, due to maintenance [...]