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European Radio Astronomy ConsortiumNewsletter Issue 8/2021
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By connecting Westerbork and LOFAR, two of the biggest radio telescopes in the world, astronomers have discovered that a simple binary wind cannot cause the puzzling periodicity of a Fast Radio Burst after all. The bursts may come from a highly magnetized, isolated neutron star. The radio detections also show that Fast Radio Bursts, some of the most energetic events in the Universe, are free from shrouding material. That transparency further increases their importance for cosmology. The results appear in Nature this week. For details read the ASTRON article Periodic Fast Radio Burst found bare, unobscured by strong binary wind. Image: ©Joeri van Leeuwen |
After almost a decade of work, an international team of astronomers has published the most detailed images yet seen of galaxies beyond our own, revealing their inner workings in unprecedented detail. The images were created from data collected by the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), a radio telescope built and maintained by ASTRON. LOFAR is a network of more than 70,000 small antennae spread across nine European countries, with its core in Exloo, the Netherlands. The results come from the team’s years of work, led by Dr Leah Morabito at Durham University. The team was supported in the UK by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). Read the full article on the ASTRON website. Image: compilation of the science results. Credit from left to right starting at the top: N. Ramírez-Olivencia et el. [radio]; NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University), edited by R. Cumming [optical], C. Groeneveld, R. Timmerman; LOFAR & Hubble Space Telescope,. Kukreti; LOFAR & Sloan Digital Sky Survey, A. Kappes, F. Sweijen; LOFAR & DESI Legacy Imaging Survey, S. Badole; NASA, ESA & L. Calcada, Graphics: W.L. Williams. |
The IAU is accepting proposals to host the IAU Centre for the Protection of the Dark Sky from Satellite Constellation Interference. Deadlines and evaluation timeline:
• September 10, 2021, 12:00 pm CEST: Proposals (preferably < 25 000 characters) should be received by Assistant General Secretary José Miguel Rodriguez Espinosa
• October 1, 2021: Completion of phase 1 of the evaluation process, short list of candidates identified, negotiation begins.
• November 30, 2021: MoU between the IAU and the selected host signed.
Find all details here. Image: ©NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld |
ISC will organise the second edition of the UNGA76 Science Summit around the 76th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA76) in New York in September 2021. The UNGA76 Science Summit will be held as virtual event on September 14-30, 2021 with the objective to raise awareness of the role and contribution of science to the attainment of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Find all information on the event here and registration here. |
The European Commission on June 30, 2021 appointed Professor Maria Leptin as the next President of the European Research Council (ERC). Professor Leptin, who is currently the Director of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), will take on her new role on October 1, 2021. Read the EC press release here. |
On 23 July 2021, the European Commission published a pre-draft of the Annotated Model Grant Agreement (AGA) for Horizon Europe on the Funding & Tenders Portal. This document is intended to support the contractual partners in interpreting the grant agreement and contains further explanations and examples for related assistance. Find all relevant guidance documents and the pre-draft of Annotated Model Grant Agreement here. The European Commission has published the Annual Report on Research and Technological Development Activities of the European Union and Monitoring of Horizon 2020 in 2020. This report provides a concise, non-exhaustive overview of key research and innovation (R&I) activities taken in 2020. It refers to the Horizon Dashboard for more detailed monitoring data. The ERC has published a new guide for scientific progress reporting. More information can be found on the ERC website and at this link. |
The 2022A call for Optical telescope transnational access supported by the OPTICON-RadioNet Pilot (ORP) opened on Wednesday August 4, 2021. This call includes access to the 11m SALT and the ORP team encourages you to take advantage of this opportunity. Deadline: August 31, 2021, 23:59UT Image: ©ORP |
The International LOFAR Telescope has opened the call for proposals for the Worldwide Community: Cycle 17 (01 December 2021 – 31 May 2022). Submission only via the online tool NorthStar. The access/funding offered through the ORP (Opticon RadioNet Pilot) project. Submission deadline: September 8, 2021, 12 UT |
The call is open for observing proposals on IRAM telescopes, both the NOEMA interferometer and the 30-meter telescope, for the winter semester 2021/22. For NOEMA, the scheduling period is 01 December 2021 to 31 May 2022. For the 30-meter telescope, the scheduling period will last only 4 months and will finish on April 4, 2022, when the upgrade work is scheduled to start. The access/funding offered through the ORP (Opticon RadioNet Pilot) project. Submission deadline: September 9, 2021, 5pm CEST |
The call for proposals for the European VLBI Network is open. EVN Travel support is possible through the OPTICON RadioNet Pilot project (ORP), funded by the EU's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No 101004719. For eligible projects, this trans-national access support would include travel reimbursement for visiting JIVE to analyse and process your EVN, EVN+e-MERLIN, or global VLBI data. All regular proposals should be submitted through the Northstar submission tool. Submission deadline: October 1, 2021 16:00 UTC |
Access to the one of the World's largest fully steerable instrument is open to all qualified astronomers. Use of the instrument by scientists from outside the MPIfR is strongly encouraged. The institute can provide support and advice on project preparation, observation, and data analysis. The access/funding offered through the ORP (Opticon RadioNet Pilot) project. Submission deadline: October 5, 2021, 15:00 UT |
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 (Opticon Radionet Pilot). |
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 access/funding offered through the ORP (Opticon RadioNet Pilot) project. |
• The University of Tokyo - Call for Assistant Professor Position for KAGRA – position - deadline 06.09.2021
• Technische Universität Darmstadt - Assistant Professorship (W2, Tenure Track) "Laboratory Astrophysics with Heavy-Ion and Laser Beams" – position – deadline 05.09.2021
• SKAO - Communications and Engagement Manager - SKA-Low - position - deadline 12.09.2021
• DFG Research Unit Relativistic Jets in Active Galaxies - 12 Postdoc and PhD positions - position - deadline 30.09.2021
• ESO – Observing Programme Office Astronomer – position – deadline 30.09.2021
• University of the Western Cape - Postdoctoral Fellowships in observational and theoretical cosmology related to the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) – position - Review of applications will begin in July 2021 and continue until the position has been filled
• EPFL – Operations Manager – position, Data Scientist – position
• International Astronomical Union & National Astronomical Observatory of Japan - International Outreach Officer (IOO) – position
• Green Bank Observatory - Telescope Operations Division Head /Chief Antenna Engineer – position
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