The SKAO, international partners and several national delegations have succeeded in putting radio astronomy back on the agenda of the International Telecommunication Union's World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) for the first time in a decade. Read more in the SKAO press release. Image: © ITU/D. Woldu; ITU Secretary-General Doreen Bogdan-Martin addresses delegates at the ITU World Radiocommunication [...]
On 7 December 2023 the European Astroparticle Physics Strategy Mid-Term Update was presented on 7 December 2023 in Brussels to the the APPEC stakeholders and the future of Astroparticle Physics in Europe was discussed. Mid-Term Update here. Image: © APPEC
As of 1 January 2024, the United Kingdom becomes an associated country to Horizon Europe. Its researchers will be able to participate in this research and innovation programme of the EU on the same terms as researchers from other associated countries and will have access to Horizon Europe funding. Read more.
A team led by astronomers in the Netherlands have confirmed a repeating FRB source to be linked to a potential ‘hypernebula’ – a dense and highly magnetised cloud of plasma that is illuminated by a powerful but still mysterious source. This confirmation was possible thanks to the use of the European VLBI Network (EVN) and [...]
Three astronomers from the Netherlands have proven that gas that was previously heated near a supermassive black hole and flowed to the outskirts of the galaxy and cooled down, is moving back towards the black hole. While there had been indirect evidence for this theory, this is the first time that the cooled gas moving [...]
Astronomers have used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to observe a disc around a young star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy neighboring ours. It’s the first time such a disc, identical to those forming planets in our Milky Way, has ever been found outside our galaxy. The new observations reveal a massive [...]
The AtLAST conference The Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST) design study: results, science, and next steps will take place in Mainz/DE on 21-24 May 2024. This conference aims to bring together all researchers, both scientists and engineers, who are interested in AtLAST and want to support its next steps. Talks will span a broad [...]
Read here the RadioNet Newsletter 11/2023
An international research team led by Michael Kramer and Kuo Liu from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn/DE have studied a rare species of ultra-dense stars, so called magnetars, to uncover an underlying law that appears to apply universally to a range of objects known as neutron stars. This law gives insight [...]
An international team of astronomers has collaborated to improve the capabilities of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), one of the world’s most powerful telescopes. Scientists from the National Science Foundation’s National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), the Joint ALMA Observatory, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), and European Southern Observatory have achieved the highest [...]