Dr. Stéphane Basa has been appointed with immediate effect as the new coordinator of the OPTICON-RadioNet Pilot (ORP). Dr. Basa is currently Research Director at the Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM/AMU/CNRS/CNES) and CoPI of the SVOM space mission. This change of coordinator follows the appointment of the former coordinator Jean-Gabriel Cuby as Executive Director of [...]
The e-Merlin call for proposals for Cycle 14 is now open. Details specific to Cycle 14 are available in the Cycle 14 proposal call PDF. Use the e-MERLIN proposal tool to submit your proposal. Access/funding is offered through the ORP (Opticon RadioNet Pilot) project. Submission deadline: May 18, 2022 13:59:59 UT.
An international team of astronomers have used ground-based telescopes, including the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), to track Neptune’s atmospheric temperatures over a 17-year period. They found a surprising drop in Neptune’s global temperatures followed by a dramatic warming at its south pole. This research was presented in the paper “Sub-Seasonal Variation [...]
JIV-ERIC is now running its own Virtual Observatory (VO) service that provides access to all the public data in the European VLBI Network (EVN) archive hosted by JIVE. This VO service provides a searchable catalog of all EVN observations that were correlated at JIVE and a few correlated at the other EVN correlator at Max [...]
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope detected the light of a star that existed within the first billion years after the universe’s birth in the big bang – the farthest individual star ever seen to date. The newly detected star is so far away that its light has taken 12.9 billion years to reach Earth, appearing to [...]
RadioNet newsletter 3/2022 issued. Read here.
The First Light Pavilion at Jodrell Bank will be open to visitors from June 4, 2022. Inside the new Pavilion, visitors will be able to engage with the site’s rich heritage in a brand new permanent exhibition. Exhibition audiences will be able to see a range of fascinating archive materials brought together for the first time, including [...]
The European Union, its Member States and Europeans across the continent are mobilized in support of people fleeing the war in Ukraine. The ERA4Ukraine initiative aims to support researchers of Ukraine by providing them with an overview of all existing actions at European and national levels. The Commission and EU Member States work together at [...]
Astronomers have observed primordial material that may be giving birth to three planetary systems around a binary star in unprecedented detail. Bringing together three decades of study, an international group of scientists have observed a pair of stars orbiting each other, to reveal that these stars are surrounded by disks of gas and dust. Research [...]
Elements of Geodetic and Astrometric Very Long Baseline Interferometry is an open tutorial document for educational purposes, for newcomers to geodetic and astrometric VLBI and also for specialists. The tutorial is supposed to be a living document with changes and additions being made at reasonable intervals. Everybody in the community is invited to contribute to [...]