IPTA is a world wide collaboration, made of the contributions of three continental consortia: EPTA in Europe, PPTA in Australia and NanoGRAV in the US. Its primary goal is to detect gravitational waves in the Nanohertz regime using radio pulsar timing observations. The European part of the collaboration is supported by RadioNet since its foundation in Autumn [...]
One of the ways to explore gas in the Universe is using HI absorption observations. The new radio telescopes -ASKAP, MeerKAT and Apertif on the WSRT- offer exciting new possibilities for science using HI absorption. Coordinating the groups planning to exploit these data was one of the motives for a small but very lively workshop [...]
About every 5 years in the village of Kerastari (Greece) experts in radio astronomy from all around the world meet to discuss their latest scientific discoveries and astronomical techniques. Today starts the workshop to explore how radio astronomy has enabled flexible processing environments that are opening new windows on the Universe (discovery of FRBs is [...]
The RadioNet community has passed one year without external funding, during which the most crucial activities, such as Transnational Access to infrastructures and networking activities, such as the YERAC conference, could still be ensured. Moreover, during that year, the executives proposed a continuation of the RadioNet funding to the EC. This proposal has been successful [...]
Seventh ERIS will provide a week of lectures and tutorials on how to achieve scientific results from radio interferometry. The topics covered by the lectures/tutorials will include: Calibration and imaging of continuum, spectral line, and polarisation data; Low-freq. (LOFAR domain), high-freq. (ALMA/IRAM domain), and VLBI-interferometry; • Extracting information from the data and interpreting the results; [...]
CRAF - Committee on Radio Astronomy Frequencies and Expert Committee of the European Science Foundation (ESF) - meets on May 3-5, 2017 at the Max-Planck-Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn and discusses how to keep radio astronomical observations free of interference. The mission of CRAF is to keep the frequency [...]
On 28 April 2017, the European Commission Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD) and the EESC are organizing a joint event to present and discuss the results of the stakeholders consultation on the Horizon 2020 programme, in which the RadioNet community participated. The event will also be an occasion to compare these results [...]
The Young European Radio Astronomers Conference will take place in Bologna, 18-22 September 2017: http://indico.ira.inaf.it/event/4/ The purpose of YERAC is for undergraduate, graduate and young post-doctoral students in radio astronomy from all over Europe to meet each other and present their work. Due to its nature, YERAC covers all aspects of radio astronomy, from the Sun out to the [...]
The SPOOR group (Strategy & Policy forum) will hold its first meeting on May 23, 2017 and deal with a sustainability plan for European radio astronomy and future RadioNet activities. Board members are very welcome.
The conference will explore relevant links to some of the main facilities complementary to LOFAR including ALMA, the VLA, and VLBI networks in the radio, as well as some of the world’s major observatories at other wavebands. The conference will run from 19 - 23 June 2017 in bologna, Italy. And it will followed by [...]