In Memoriam

With sadness we learnt that Prof. Roy Booth passed away on 27.2.2024.

Roy Booth, previous Director of Onsala Space Observatory and Board member of RadioNet projects, was a passionate advocate for international cooperation within astronomy and against taking narrow national perspectives. We have lost an important contributor to radio astronomy and a dear friend.

Read here the full memorial at Onsala Space Observatory's pages, and here SARAO´s.

Image: © J-O Yxell

CPS Urges Action In First Recommendations Paper

The IAU Centre for Protection of the Dark and Quiet Sky from Satellite Constellation Interference (CPS) has released the paper Call to Protect the Dark and Quiet Sky from Harmful Interference by Satellite Constallations. This document states its recommendations for the mitigation of satellite constellations´ impact on astronomy.

Read more.

ERIS2024 – first announcement & registration is open

The European Radio Interferometry School - ERIS2024, co-organised by JIV-ERIC and co-sponsored by ORP, will take place 30 September - 4 October 2024 in Granada/ES.

Registration is now open.

Registration deadline: 10 May 2024.

More information here.

New ORP Multi-Facility call for proposals

ORP is pleased to announce the launch of the new ORP Multi-Facility call for proposals.

This call for proposals invites astronomers from diverse fields to submit observation proposals using multiple observatories for the same scientific project. Assistance is available to support the submission of multi-wavelength proposals. This initiative aligns with ORP's commitment to advance collaborative and cutting-edge astronomical research. Key details:

• Participants have the chance to access more than eighteen individual facilities,expanding the scope of their research.

• There are no restrictions on the scientific areas that can be proposed, fostering a diverse range of research avenues.

• Observation programmes must involve a minimum of two ORP facilities, encouraging collaboration and maximising the potential for impactful discoveries.

• The call is applicable to both non-simultaneous (non-time-critical) and time-critical/sensitive observations (e.g. contemporary or with the requested cadence).

See more information here.

Deadline for submission: 9 April 2024; 14:00 UTC/15:00 BST/16:00 CEST

INAF: Open Call

The call for proposal for observing with the INAF telescopes is open. See the call here.

INAF participates with the Sardinia Telescope (SRT)  in the Transnational Access program of the ORP project, which is funded by the EC Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No. 101004719. For observations with the STR telescope, access/funding can be offered through the ORP project.

Submission deadline: 15 April 2024 (12:00 UTC)

100-m Effelsberg radio telescope: Open call for proposals

The call for proposals of the 100-m radio telescope (Effelsberg/DE) of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy is open.

Access/funding is offered through the ORP project.

Submission deadline: 30 May 2024 (15:00 UT)

Image: © N. Tacken (MPIfR)

European ALMA Regional Centre

The European ALMA Regional Centre (ARC) provides the interface between the ALMA project and the European science community. The ARC is staffed by scientists with expertise in radio astronomy and interferometry and it supports its users throughout the lifetime of a project, from proposal preparation to data analysis. Users that want to visit an ARC node for a face-to-face visit can apply for funding through the ORP project. 

Westerbork Apertif Long Term Archive

ALTA offers to the world-wide astronomical community free virtual access to data and scientific products produced from all sky surveys of the Northern sky that will be conducted with the new Apertif frontend of the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT), as well as tools to query, further exploit and perform data mining of these products adaptable to diverse research goals. The access/funding offered through the ORP project.

LOFAR Long Term Archive

LTA is a long-established archive and access facility supporting the international LOFAR telescope. It is currently the largest radio astronomical archive in the world already exceeding 45 PB from LOFAR’s past 10 years of operations. The LTA provides a central and key resource for all observed LOFAR astronomical science programs where the data become public within 12 months of first creation. The access/funding is offered through the ORP project.