Monthly Archives: January 2022

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IRAM: NOEMA Steps Up to Full Sensitivity

The Northern Extended Millimeter Array (NOEMA), one of Europe's biggest facilities for astronomical research, operated by the IRAM reached its full sensitivity with the commissioning of its 12th Antenna. Eight years after the inauguration of the first NOEMA antenna, the twelfth NOEMA antenna has joined the array. With this step NOEMA will be ready to [...]

By | 2022-01-31T13:47:31+00:00 January 31st, 2022|announcement|Comments Off on IRAM: NOEMA Steps Up to Full Sensitivity

Jean-Gabriel Cuby named CFHT Executive Director

The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) Board of Directors just announced the appointment of Dr. Jean-Gabriel Cuby to the position of CFHT Executive Director effective July 2022. Cuby is currently an astronomer at the Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille, where he served as director from 2012 to 2017 and he is the coordinator of the EC H2020 project [...]

By | 2022-01-27T13:06:28+00:00 January 27th, 2022|announcement|Comments Off on Jean-Gabriel Cuby named CFHT Executive Director

A new state-of-the-art receiver for the 40-meter radio telescope of the Yebes Observatory

The Yebes Observatory has recently completed the design, implementation and installation of a new broadband receiver for its 40-m diameter radio telescope. The receiver is sensitive in the 4.5 to 9 GHz frequency range, and replaces two older, frequency-limited receivers in C-band (5 and 6 GHz) and X-band (8 GHz), allowing simultaneous observation in [...]

By | 2022-01-25T11:26:00+00:00 January 25th, 2022|Uncategorized|Comments Off on A new state-of-the-art receiver for the 40-meter radio telescope of the Yebes Observatory

IAA seminar on Cosmological QUOKKAS

On January 25, 2022, 12:30 CET the IAA seminar Cosmological QUOKKAS: Proof of concept and early results on the Hubble Constant tension takes place.  Dr. Jeff Hodgson will talk bout Quokkas, Hubble constant, and 3C84. Join the meeting at via zoom or via live streaming. More information here.

By | 2022-01-25T10:02:54+00:00 January 25th, 2022|announcement|Comments Off on IAA seminar on Cosmological QUOKKAS

Open Max Planck Society Call for APEX Proposals

In this call, proposals for APEX observing requests for the period from 16 March to 17 August 2022 are solicited. Detailed information can be found in the Call for Proposals. Proposals should be submitted as a single PDF file using the latex templates provided here. In 2022, the MPIfR has access to 49% of the [...]

By | 2022-01-21T11:30:24+00:00 January 21st, 2022|announcement|Comments Off on Open Max Planck Society Call for APEX Proposals

Images at the Highest Angular Resolution in Astronomy

An international team of researchers including several scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) has obtained an image of radio emission in the active galaxy OJ 287 at an angular resolution of 12 micro arcseconds, which is presently the highest resolution achieved in astronomical observations. This has been made possible with the [...]

By | 2022-01-20T13:18:55+00:00 January 20th, 2022|announcement, press release|Comments Off on Images at the Highest Angular Resolution in Astronomy

New EVN Support+ programme

JIVE/EVN has initiated a pilot programme to provide extended support to teams new to the EVN, with little or no direct VLBI experience. This includes the scheduling of the VLBI run and the VLBI-specific parts of the data reduction. Read more here. Image: © Paul Boven / JIVE.

By | 2022-01-20T10:13:01+00:00 January 20th, 2022|announcement|Comments Off on New EVN Support+ programme

Dark and Quiet Skies II for Science and Society Working Group Reports Published

In October 2021 more than 700 people from 76 countries took part in the United Nations/Spain/International Astronomical Union Conference on Dark and Quiet Skies for Science and Society online. The results of this meeting are contained in the reports, which are now available online. These reports discuss the feasibility of implementing adequate measures to mitigate [...]

By | 2022-01-20T10:03:34+00:00 January 20th, 2022|announcement|Comments Off on Dark and Quiet Skies II for Science and Society Working Group Reports Published

ALMA catches “intruder” redhanded in rarely detected stellar flyby event

Scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) made a rare detection of a likely stellar flyby event in the Z Canis Majoris (Z CMa) star system. An intruder—not bound to the system—object came in close proximity to and interacted with the environment surrounding the binary [...]

By | 2022-01-20T08:14:50+00:00 January 20th, 2022|announcement|Comments Off on ALMA catches “intruder” redhanded in rarely detected stellar flyby event