RadioNet Newsletter 07/2023
The RadioNet newsletter 07/2023 has ust been issued. Read here.
ARGOS: Science Priorities for a European Wide-Field Radio Interferometer
The hybrid community workshop will take place on 24-27 October 2023 at FORTH in Heralkion/Greece and it aims to to discuss the scientific potential and challenges of a future European wide-field radio interferometer: Recent advances and emerging themes in radio astronomy and transient astrophysics The science priorities for ARGOS: pulsar timing, PTAs, FRBs, cosmology, transients, [...]
Announcement of the “Second Workshop on German Science Opportunities for the ngVLA”
The Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) project, developed by the US community under the lead of the of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), has recently been identified as one of the top-priority new ground-based observatories in the recent US decadal report. As such, it is expected to be a key facility for the [...]
EC: New initiatives to empower research careers and to strengthen the European Research Area
On 13 July 2023, the Commission unveiled a comprehensive set of measures targeted at strengthening the European Research Area (ERA) and making it more resilient, appealing, and competitive. These will contribute to a priority action of the ERA Policy Agenda 2022-2024, namely to promote attractive and sustainable research careers. The set of measures includes: A proposal [...]
EAS 2023: Prof. J. A. Zensus received Tycho Brahe Medal
At the EAS 2023 in Krakow, Prof. J. Anton Zensus, Coordinator of the concluded RadioNet project and director of the MPIfR, has received the prestigious Tycho Brahe Medal of the European Astronomical Society (EAS). He has been honored for significant advances in Very Long Baseline Interferometry that led to the first images of the shadows [...]
Joint Max Planck-Weizmann Postdoctoral Programme
The Max Planck Society (MPG) and the Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) jointly offer outstanding postdoctoral researchers in the fields of physics, chemistry, mathematics, computer science and earth sciences a prestigious four-year appointment in a unique research environment. The cooperation between the MPG and the WIS offers talented researchers the opportunity to participate in innovative [...]
Setting up for SETI with e-MERLIN
The Breakthrough Listen program aims at finding evidence of civilizations beyond Earth using the world’s most powerful instruments (e.g. MeerKAT). Until now the use of VLBI for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has been limited. University of Manchester Phd student Kelvin Wandia and collaborators demonstrated a new data analysis/interpretation scheme for SETI using VLBI. They have used the [...]
Group of LOFAR users from ORP detected unintended electromagnetic radiation emitting from large satellite constellations
For a study to be published in the Astronomy & Astrophysics journal, scientists from a number of leading research institutions, all members of the Opticon-RadioNet Pilot, using LOFAR telescope detected 47 satellites to emit so-called "unintended electromagnetic radiation". Unintended electromagnetic radiation emanates from the electronics of the satellites, not necessarily linked to the transmission system. [...]