Onsala Space Observatory (OSO) in Sweden is recruiting for a permanent position as Support Engineer/Scientist for geodetic VLBI. See the advertising here. Deadline for application submission is 28 March 2023.
The South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) announces an opportunity to apply for observing time on the MeerKAT telescope. Deadline: 03.05.2023, 12:00 UTC
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: 01 June 2023 (15:00 UT) Image: © N. Tacken (MPIfR)
Read the RadioNet newsletter issue 02/2023 here.
Scientists studying a nearby protostar have detected the presence of water in its circumstellar disk. The new observations made with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) mark the first detection of water being inherited into a protoplanetary disk without significant changes to its composition. These results further suggest that the water in our Solar System [...]
Using the MeerKAT radio telescope to study a distant galaxy towards PKS 1830-211, scientists discovered something unexpected: gas clouds made up of some of the largest hydrogen atoms in the universe, Rydberg atoms. It is the first time scientists observed these hydrogen atoms in a distant galaxy. Read the SARAO media release here. Image: © [...]
The February 2023 newsletter of the Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST) project has been issued. The ongoing EU-funded design study will deliver, in mid-2024, a full feasibility study that considers the technical, operational, environmental, and scientific challenges of building and operating AtLAST. Image: © AtLAST
The call is open for observing proposals on IRAM telescopes, both the NOEMA interferometer and the 30-meter telescope, for the summer semester 2023. For both observatories, the scheduling period is June 1, 2023 to November 30, 2023. The 30-meter tele- scope will be upgraded in Summer 2023 with observations resuming in early October on a [...]
In a new experiment, Helmut Wiesemeyer from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn/Germany and his colleagues have measured the 18O fraction of the upper mesosphere/lower thermosphere for the first time. They used the GREAT receiver aboard the airborne observatory SOFIA and found that the upper atmosphere has an 18O fraction close to that of [...]
The RadioNet newsletter 01/2023 has just been issued. Read here.