Francesca Primas, full astronomer at ESO, has been honoured with the inaugural Nancy Grace Roman Award by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Primas is the first person to receive this award, which was introduced this year to recognize significant contributions to promoting gender equity and inclusion in astronomy and related fields. Read here the [...]
Read here the RadioNet newsletter 09/2023.
The call for proposals for the European VLBI Network (EVN) is open. EVN access and travel support is possible through the OPTICON RadioNet Pilot project (ORP). All regular proposals should be submitted through the Northstar submission tool. Submission deadline: 1 October 2023 at 16:00 UTC.
An international research team led by Silke Britzen from the MPIfR in Bonn/DE has investigated blazars, accreting supermassive black holes in the centers of galaxies. The researchers present evidence that it is in fact the precession of the jet source, either caused by the presence of a second massive black hole close to the primary [...]
The e-Merlin call for proposals for Cycle 17 is now open. Read the call here. Please use the e-MERLIN proposal tool to submit your proposal. Access/funding is offered through the ORP (Opticon RadioNet Pilot) project. Deadline for proposal submission: 2 November 2023, 13:59:59 UT.
JIVE Director Agnieszka Słowikowska at the XLI Meeting of the Polish Astronomical Society in Toruń organised and moderated a session over the prospect of Poland developing closer links with the SKA Observatory. The SKAO sees in Poland a potential partner in Central Europe, building on the Observatory's existing European membership. With VLBI one of the planned observing modes of the [...]
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: Deadline 28 September 2023 (15:00 UT) Image: © N. Tacken (MPIfR)
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have detected the magnetic field of a galaxy so far away that its light has taken more than 11 billion years to reach us. The result provides astronomers with vital clues about how the magnetic fields of galaxies like our own Milky Way came to be. Read ALMA´s [...]
RadioNet newsletter 08/2023 issued. Read here.
Using the transnational access funded by the EC granted Opticon RadioNet Pilot project, Astronomers have detected cold molecular gas in the form of carbon monoxide in the host galaxy of a supermassive black hole at an early epoch in cosmic history, corresponding to when the Universe was only seven hundred million years old. The discovery [...]