RadioNet Newsletter 11/2022
The RadioNet newsletter 11/2022 has been issued. Read here.
To the Heart of 3C 273: International Team Observes Innermost Structure of a Quasar Jet
An international group of scientists including astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) and ALMA present new observations of the first quasar ever identified. Its name is 3C273 and it is located at a distance of approx. 1.9 Billion light years in the Virgo constellation. The new high-resolution radio images trace the [...]
ECA Annual report on EU Joint Undertakings for the financial year 2021 published
The European Court of Auditors (ECA) has signed off the 2021 accounts of all the EU's Joint Undertakings, and confirmed the positive results reported in previous years. See the ECA press release here and the report here.
Horizon Europe info day – Infrastructures (December 6, 2022)
The EC info day on the Research Infrastructures Work Programme will take place on December 6, 2022. It will focus on the 2023 calls of the Work programme 2023-2024, for its main destinations. More here.
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. Deadline for proposal submission: 02 February 2023 (15:00 UT) Find the call here. Image: © N. Tacken (MPIfR)
EC signed the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment and endorsed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment
On November 8, 2022 the Commission has signed the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment. The Agreement sets a common direction for changes in assessment practices for research, researchers and research organisations, with the goal to maximise the quality and impact of research. That day also marked the Commission’s endorsement of the San Francisco Declaration on [...]
IAU symposium 378: Black hole winds at all scales, Haifa/IL, March 12-16, 2023
On March 12-16, 2023 the IAU symposium 378: Black hole winds at all scales will take place in Haifa/IL. The goal of this IAU symposium is to better understand black hole winds by seeking common physical grounds for different outflows, in both stellar/X-ray binaries and AGN/active galactic black holes, in all wavelengths, and in the [...]
RadioNet newsletter 10/2022 issued
The RadioNet newsletter 10/2022 has just been issued. Read here.
New visitor center at Onsala Space Observatory
The new visitor center at Onsala Space Observatory opened last month and gives new opportunities to explore both the universe and our own planet. The observatory is one of few places in the world where visitors can come into close contact with gigantic, working telescopes. Read more here. Image: © Anna-Lena Lundqvist; Chalmers President Stefan Bengtsson gave the [...]
Heaviest element yet detected in an exoplanet atmosphere
Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have discovered the heaviest element ever found in an exoplanet atmosphere — barium. They were surprised to discover barium at high altitudes in the atmospheres of the ultra-hot gas giants WASP-76 b and WASP-121 b — two exoplanets, planets which orbit stars outside our [...]