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European Radio Astronomy ConsortiumNewsletter Issue 4/2021
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An international team of astronomers has published the most sensitive images of the Universe ever taken at low radio frequencies, using the International Low Frequency Array/LOFAR. By observing the same regions of sky over and over again and combining the data to make a single very-long exposure image, the team has detected the faint radio glow of stars exploding as supernovae, in tens of thousands of galaxies out to the most distant parts of the Universe. A special issue of the scientific journal Astronomy & Astrophysics is dedicated to fourteen research papers describing these images and the first scientific results. Read here the full article “Ultra-sensitive radio images reveal thousands of star-forming galaxies in early Universe” at the ASTRON webpage. Image ©Philip Best & Jose Sabater, University of Edinburgh. |
Seminars of the EVN held in the series “The sharpest view of the Radio Universe” are all available in the “JIVE and the EVN” channel in youtube. On Monday 29 March 2021, Michael Johnson from Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has presented a talk on Shadows and Photon Rings: Imaging Supermassive Black Holes with the Event Horizon Telescope. |
Super-massive black holes are found at the centers of many galaxies. But all efforts to detect these mysterious objects directly suffer from the fact that no information from their interior can reach us directly. Now, astrophysicist Prof. Anton Zensus, director at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, founding chairman of the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration (EHT), and the coordinator of RadioNet has proposed an independent method to filter out those explanations from the existing ones that are viable. At the same time, this method may succeed in explaining the high-energy plasma outflows ejected by many black holes. The European Research Council (ERC) is funding this concept with an ERC Advanced Grant of 2.5 M€. Read more here. Image ©Compilation: E. Ros (EHT Collaboration 2021; Nakamura 2020; Tchekhovskoy 2015) |
The Office of Astronomy for Development has published a document that provides a synthesis of efforts and roles played by scientists who are usually working in areas not related to infectious diseases, especially astronomers, in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on development. See it here. |
The 100-meter radio telescope of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2021. On May 12, 1971, the opening ceremony took place at the site of the telescope, about one year later, on August 1, 1972, the Effelsberg radio telescope became fully operational. Over the past five decades, a multitude of successful observations of the universe in radio waves have been made with the telescope, from our cosmic neighborhood in the Milky Way to very distant galaxies. On April 1, 2021, a special stamp was issued to mark the 50th birthday of the telescope. Read the full article here. Image ©Publisher: Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF). Design: Michael Menge, Duisburg. |
The EU project JUMPING JIVE has facilitated the process of preparing a scientific roadmap for VLBI, whose main goals are to assess the relevance of milliarcsecond scale science in the current transformational landscape of new radio astronomical facilities, and to highlight the technological and operational developments needed to ensure that the role VLBI plays in astrophysics will continue and further grow in relevance. The document “VLBI20-30: a scientific roadmap for the next decade - The future of the European VLBI Network” has been completed and has been distributed to the community worldwide. A related article by T. Venturi (INAF) – one of the main authors – was published in the EVN newsletter issue 58. |
The IAU Global Outreach Events are international outreach activities supported by the IAU outreach office, with the intent of promoting and disseminating best practices internationally. Outreach professionals, educators, amateur and professional astronomers are encouraged to share their stories and join the inspiring outreach community. You can register your events in the official IAU Calendar of Outreach Global Events for 2021 here. Read all details. |
The IAU has released the proceedings of the inaugural AstroEdu Conference, which was held from 16 to 18 September 2019 at the ESO Supernova in Garching, Munich, Germany. Comprising 21 complete papers and 101 abstracts from 81 authors, the proceedings record the rich variety of topics that were presented and discussed during the conference. These topics span a range of endeavours around the world that foster student engagement in learning through astronomy. |
This year the ERC will reach an important milestone: soon 10 000 scientists and scholars from Europe and beyond will have received ERC funding to pursue their best ideas at the frontiers of knowledge. During an online ceremony on May 6, 2021, the ERC will welcome the 10 000th grantee and will highlight a few other ERC grantees who, in different ways, have contributed to transform science and research. You can register here. Image ©ERC |
Read here the article of Mariya Gabriel, EU Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth “We need more women talents for better science, research and innovation”, a concrete example of how we are addressing gender stereotypes is the project ‘Nobel Run’. On April 1, 2021, a new structure and partially changed task distributions and designations for the executive agencies of the European Commission have entered into force - a new structure and partially modified task distributions and designations for the executive agencies of the European Commission. Responsibilities for the EU centrally managed programs for 2021-2027 have each been divided into thematically clustered portfolios. Find more information here. |
The Onsala Space Observatory will open a Call for APEX proposals from March 30, 2021. You will find the call text and details here. Deadline: May 6, 2021 |
e-MERLIN invites the astronomical community to submit observing proposals for Cycle 12. Proposals are competitively peer-reviewed under standard STFC rules by the Programme Allocation of Telescope Time (PATT) e-MERLIN Time Allocation Group. Allocation will be made on the basis of scientific merit and technical feasibility alone. Find all details on the call here. Deadline on May 13, 2021 at 23:59:59 UT. |
The Westerbork Apertif Long Term Archive (ALTA) is a brand new facility offering 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 Telescopes for All project, an IAU Global Outreach Project, distributes telescopes signed by astronauts and scientists, including Nobel Prize winners, to underserved communities around the world. The project aims to broaden the horizons of children, adults and educators while sparking an interest in science and raising awareness for equal opportunities in pursuing careers in astronomy. Proposals and recommendations must be submitted to the IAU OAO. See all information here. Deadline: June 1, 2021 |
• ESO: ALMA Regional Centre Astronomer - position - Deadline 10.05.2021
• University of Western Australia - Research Associate - Gravitational Wave – position – 12.5.2021
• ALMA: Technical Lead – Control Specialist - position; Data Analyst for the ALMA Department of Science - position; Science Archive Content Manager (SACM) – position - deadline 16.5.2021
• University of Tokyo - Assistant Professor at Kamioka Observatory – position – 7.6.2021
Check also EURAXESS
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• ERC ceremony: CELEBRATING 10 000 GRANTEES - May 6, 2021 - virtual
• 6th Workshop on CSS and GPS Sources - May 10-14, 2021 – virtual
• CAP2021 - May 24-27, 2021 - virtual
• ICRI 2021 - June 1-3, 2021 - virtual
• Virtual OPTICON Archival School Using ESO and ALMA Data - June 19-26, 2021 - virtual
• European Research and Innovation Days - June 23 and 24, 2021 – online event
• EAS2021 - June 28 – July 2, 2021 – virtual
• 3rd ESO Summer Research Programme - July 5 – August 13, 2021 – Garching/DE
• 15th EVN Symposium and User´s meeting on July 12-16, 2021, virtual
• The URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (GASS) - August 28 – September 4, 2021, Rome/virtual
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