On 11 May 2022, JIVE organises the first online EVN Users' Training Event with the aim to support first-time users of the network. EVN Support Scientists will guide participants through the different steps to allow them to prepare and submit an observing proposal as well as the scheduling of observations. Participation on the webinar is [...]
The Yebes Observatory has recently completed the design, implementation and installation of a new broadband receiver for its 40-m diameter radio telescope. The receiver is sensitive in the 4.5 to 9 GHz frequency range, and replaces two older, frequency-limited receivers in C-band (5 and 6 GHz) and X-band (8 GHz), allowing simultaneous observation in [...]
VLBI proposals for observing at 3mm wavelength (86 GHz) using: the VLBA, GBT, EFFELSBERG, PICO VELETA, NOEMA, ONSALA, METSAEHOVI, YEBES and KVN telescopes should be submitted using the NRAO Proposal Submission Tool (PST) by 1 FEBRUARY 2022 (UT 22:00). It is expected that phased ALMA will participate in some GMVA observations during ALMA Cycle 9 [...]
On December 9, 2021, 9:00 ECT, the virtual session Women's Movements in African Science, Technology, and Innovation virtual session will take place. This session aims to give more visibility to different woman's movements in the fields of science, technology, and innovation, and to get their recommendations regarding the needed policy support instruments. These recommendations will [...]
Thanks to a guarantee from Radboud University, the start of the Africa Millimetre Telescope (AMT) (verwijst naar een andere website) project has been greenlighted. The project aims to realise a radio telescope in Namibia. In addition, Radboud University guarantees a scientific and technical contribution to the EHT consortium for the next ten years. Read here [...]
Article by Tiziana Venturi (INAF, Istituto di Radioastronomia) Radio astronomy in Italy began almost like a joke among a group of young and enthusiastic physicists at the University of Bologna around 1960. More than 60 years have gone since that thrilling moment, most of the people involved in the initial stages of this extremely successful [...]
The deadline for registration for participation in the 7th International Scientific Conference “Baltic Applied Astroinformatics and Space data Processing” (BAASP 2021) with contribution and abstract submission has been extended to August, 8th. Note that this will be the final deadline for organizational reasons. If you are not registering and submitting an abstract yet but considering taking part in [...]
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) invites scientists to participate in the Semester 2022A Call for Proposals for the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), High Sensitivity Array (HSA), and Global 3mm VLBI Array (GMVA). The submission deadline for Semester 2021B proposals is August 2, 2021, at 17:00 EDT (21:00 [...]
Today, May 12, 2021, the 100-m radio telescope of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn celebrates its 50th birthday. On the occasion of the anniversary, the Time Travel Trail is opened as the fourth astronomical hiking trail at the radio telescope. Read more here. Image: © Norbert Junkes/MPIfR
On April 1, 2021, a new structure and partially changed task distributions and designations for the executive agencies of the European Commission have entered into force - a new structure and partially modified task distributions and designations for the executive agencies of the European Commission. Responsibilities for the EU centrally managed programs for 2021-2027 have [...]