The LOFAR Science meeting, co-sponsored by RadioNet, will consist of three events: 1) The LOFAR Users Meeting – May 20, 2019. The meeting will be organised by the ASTRON Radio Observatory (RO) and will be open to the whole LOFAR community. It will promote a wide-ranging dialogue between the RO and members of the Key Science Projects [...]
The founding members of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) signed on March 12, 2019 the international treaty establishing the intergovernmental organisation that will oversee the delivery of the world’s largest radio telescope. Seven countries signed the treaty at present, including Australia, China, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal, South Africa and the United Kingdom. The Square Kilometre [...]
Call for Proposals on IRAM Telescopes is open. The deadline for submission of observing proposals on IRAM telescopes, both the NOEMA interferometer and the 30-meter telescope, covering the scheduling period 1 June to 30 November 2019, is 14 March 2019, 17:00 CET (UT + 1 hour). IRAM proposals should be submitted through the Proposal Management [...]
The RadioNet newsletter 1/2019 has been issued today. Read here. Subscribe here: RadioNet@mpifr.de
ALMA and the Global mm-VLBI Array team up and provide first scientific results Including the powerful ALMA into an array of telescopes for the first time, astronomers have found that the emission from the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) at the center of our Galaxy comes from a smaller region than previously thought. [...]
Lund University looking to hire a researcher to strengthen the studies in theoretical and observational astrophysics. The position is for two years with a possibility of a one-year extension. Application deadline is 13.Dec.2018 11:59 PM CET More Information here.
The 2nd International Conference on Astronomy, Astrophysics and Astrobiology will take place April 04 - 06, 2019 in Auckland, New Zealand and is meant as a platform for the interaction between experts around the world and aims at accelerating scientific discoveries. The theme: Bridging the gap between Humans, Space and Earth The conference offers richer experiences [...]
The first IAU Symposium on Laboratory Astrophysics: From Observations to Interpretation (IAU S350) will take place in Jesus College, Cambridge, UK, 14th – 19 April 2019. The registration & abstract submission for the is now open. For full details, please visit the conference website here.
e-MERLIN requests proposals from the international astronomical community for observations to be made during Cycle-8. Proposals are competitively peer-reviewed under standard STFC rules by the PATT e-MERLIN Time Allocation Committee. Allocation will be made on the basis of scientific merit and technical feasibility alone. During e-MERLIN operations >50% of observing time has been allocated to [...]
The SOFIA2019 workshop "Spectroscopy with SOFIA: new results & future opportunities" will take place at Schloss Ringberg, Germany on January 20–23, 2019. It aims at presenting new science results and looking into future science opportunities for the next years enabled by new instrumentation. Registration at the workshop website is now open. With the registration, you will also be asked [...]