An international research team led by Gregory Desvignes from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn/DE has used the Effelsberg and Jodrell Bank radio telescopes to observe the precessing magnetar XTE J1810-197 — a highly magnetised and ultra-dense neutron star — shortly after its X-ray enhanced activity and radio reactivation. This precession damped [...]
The 2024 NEON Observing School, mainly funded by ORP, will take place on 13-25 October 2024 in Athens/Greece, hosted by the National Observatory of Athens. This school provides hands-on observing experience on professional telescopes. During it the students will, together with an experienced tutor, go through all the steps from planning the observations to reducing [...]
YERAC 2024, the 53rd Young European Radio Astronomers Conference, will be held on 3-6 September in Madrid/Spain. It will be organized by the National Astronomical Observatory (OAN-IGN) and the Yebes Observatory (OY-IGN) and take place in the Real Observatorio de Madrid, including a visit to the Yebes Observatory. The participation is open to PhD students [...]
A new image from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration has uncovered strong and organized magnetic fields spiraling from the edge of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). Seen in polarized light for the first time, this new view of the monster lurking at the heart of the Milky Way Galaxy has revealed [...]
The 12th IRAM millimeter interferometry school, co-sponsored by ORP, will be held in the week of November 18, 2024 at the IRAM headquarters (Grenoble, France). It is intended for students, post-docs and other scientists who want to acquire a good knowledge of interferometry and data processing techniques at millimeter wavelengths, with a special emphasis on [...]
The second announcement of this traditional conference held biennially by the European VLBI Network - this time in Bonn/DE. The European VLBI Network Symposium is the main forum for discussion of the latest Very Long Baseline Interferometry scientific results and technical and technological developments within the EVN member countries. Traditionally this also involved further communities [...]
With sadness we learnt that Roy Booth passed away on 27.2.2024. Roy Booth, previous Director of Onsala Space Observatory and Board member of RadioNet projects, was a passionate advocate for international cooperation within astronomy and against taking narrow national perspectives. We have lost an important contributor to radio astronomy and a dear friend. Read here [...]
The ERIS2024, co-organised by JIVE and co-sponsored by ORP, will take place 30 September -4 October 2024 in Granada/ES. Registration is now open. Registration deadline: 10 May 2024. More information here.
The call for proposal for observing with the INAF telescopes is open. See the call here. INAF participates with the Sardinia Telescope (SRT) in the Transnational Access program of the Opticon Radionet Pilot program (ORP), which is funded by the EC Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No. 101004719. For observations with [...]
In a series of studies, a team of astronomers has shed new light on the fascinating and complex process of planet formation. The stunning images, captured using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) in Chile, represent one of the largest ever surveys of planet-forming discs. The research brings together observations of more [...]