ESFRI organises an Information Day, on 8 October 2024 in Brussels, to kick-off the process of updating its Roadmap - to be completed in 2026. Top Roadmap stakeholders will provide a thorough presentation of the requirements, the procedure and the methodology of selection of proposals for new RI Projects to enter the Roadmap. There will [...]
APPEC announced that Carlos Peña Garay, current director of the Laboratorio Subterráneo de Canfranc (LSC) is the newly elected Chair of the APPEC General Assembly (from December 2024) and Julie Epas, Laboratoire AstroParticule et Cosmologie CNRS/IN2P3, the new General Secretary from APPEC (from June 2024). Image: © APPEC
Dr Violette Impellizzeri will join ASTRON as head of the Astronomy & Operations department. She will start her new duties on 1 September 2024. Her research focus is on VLBI investigations of the molecular gas enveloping black holes and spectral line analyses. Read more here. Image: © ALMA
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: 26 September 2024 (15:00 UT) Image: © N. Tacken (MPIfR)
Earlier this year, Amélie Saintonge was appointed as scientific member of the Max Planck Society and director at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, where she will lead the new research department Star Formation and Galaxy Evolution in the institute. The focus of this research department will be to deliver the strong [...]
The European VLBI Network (EVN) is asking for feedback from the users and the VLBI community through an anonymous survey. This survey aims to engage the EVN community before the 16th European VLBI Network Symposium and Users' Meeting on 2–6 September 2024. Results and conclusions from this survey will be presented at the Symposium. input is highly valuable to [...]
An international team of astronomers suspects based on their findings that non-repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) probably originate from galaxies similar to our Milky Way. The team compared the polarised light from 128 of these non-repeating FRBs with repeating ones. The researchers published their results in The Astrophysical Journal with the title Polarization Properties of [...]
The National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand (NARIT), in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR), has achieved the historic first detection of astronomical radio signals using Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) with the 40-m Thai National Radio Telescope (TNRT). The experiment, performed together with the Effelsberg 100-m radio telescope in Germany, [...]
The new ESFRI LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS has been published. See here.
The European Council has adopted a Council recommendation on enhancing research security. The main objective of the recommendation is to support the Commission and member states to address research security risks deriving from international cooperation.