Monthly Archives: April 2022

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EAVN call open

Call for Proposals for the East Asian VLBI Network for the 2022B semester is open. Proposals should be submitted via the EAVN website. Deadline: June 1, 2022

By | 2022-04-29T12:58:29+00:00 April 29th, 2022|announcement|Comments Off on EAVN call open

First online EVN Users’ Training Event

On 11 May 2022, JIVE organises the first online EVN Users' Training Event with the aim to support first-time users of the network. EVN Support Scientists will guide participants through the different steps to allow them to prepare and submit an observing proposal as well as the scheduling of observations. Participation on the webinar is [...]

By | 2022-04-29T12:41:41+00:00 April 29th, 2022|announcement, Uncategorized|Comments Off on First online EVN Users’ Training Event

European VLBI Network: Call for Proposals open

The call for proposals for the European VLBI Network (EVN) is open. EVN access and travel support is possible through the OPTICON RadioNet Pilot project (ORP). All regular proposals should be submitted through the Northstar submission tool. Submission: June 1, 2022 at 16:00 UTC. Image: © 2022 JIVE  

By | 2022-04-29T12:34:41+00:00 April 29th, 2022|announcement|Comments Off on European VLBI Network: Call for Proposals open

EVN series of online seminars: The sharpest view of the radio Universe

Mar Mezcua (Institute of Space Sciences / ICE-CSIC) will give the next talk of the online seminars of the  European VLBI Network (EVN) “The sharpest view of the radio Universe: VLBI – Connecting Astronomers Worldwide“. On May 5, 2022, 10:00 CEST M. Mezcua will talk about Intermediate-mass black holes in the era of radio astronomy [...]

By | 2022-04-27T14:41:34+00:00 April 27th, 2022|announcement|Comments Off on EVN series of online seminars: The sharpest view of the radio Universe

Dr. Stéphane Basa appointed as new coordinator of ORP

Dr. Stéphane Basa has been appointed with immediate effect as the new coordinator of the OPTICON-RadioNet Pilot (ORP). Dr. Basa is currently Research Director at the Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM/AMU/CNRS/CNES) and CoPI of the SVOM space mission. This change of coordinator follows the appointment of the former coordinator Jean-Gabriel Cuby as Executive Director of [...]

By | 2022-04-20T07:29:29+00:00 April 20th, 2022|announcement|Comments Off on Dr. Stéphane Basa appointed as new coordinator of ORP

e-MERLIN cycle 14: Call is open now

The e-Merlin call for proposals for Cycle 14 is now open. Details specific to Cycle 14 are available in the Cycle 14 proposal call PDF.  Use the e-MERLIN proposal tool to submit your proposal. Access/funding is offered through the ORP (Opticon RadioNet Pilot) project. Submission deadline: May 18, 2022 13:59:59 UT.

By | 2022-04-11T12:55:06+00:00 April 11th, 2022|announcement|Comments Off on e-MERLIN cycle 14: Call is open now

ESO: surprising changes in Neptune’s temperatures

An international team of astronomers have used ground-based telescopes, including the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), to track Neptune’s atmospheric temperatures over a 17-year period. They found a surprising drop in Neptune’s global temperatures followed by a dramatic warming at its south pole. This research was presented in the paper “Sub-Seasonal Variation [...]

By | 2022-04-11T12:31:29+00:00 April 11th, 2022|announcement, press release|Comments Off on ESO: surprising changes in Neptune’s temperatures

EVN archive officially part of the VO

JIV-ERIC is now running its own Virtual Observatory (VO) service that provides access to all the public data in the European VLBI Network (EVN) archive hosted by JIVE. This VO service provides a searchable catalog of all EVN observations that were correlated at JIVE and a few correlated at the other EVN correlator at Max [...]

By | 2022-04-08T09:12:31+00:00 April 8th, 2022|announcement|Comments Off on EVN archive officially part of the VO

Hubble Spots Farthest Star Ever Seen

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope detected the light of a star that existed within the first billion years after the universe’s birth in the big bang – the farthest individual star ever seen to date. The newly detected star is so far away that its light has taken 12.9 billion years to reach Earth, appearing to [...]

By | 2022-04-01T12:29:52+00:00 April 1st, 2022|press release|Comments Off on Hubble Spots Farthest Star Ever Seen