At the EAS 2023 in Krakow, Prof. J. Anton Zensus, Coordinator of the concluded RadioNet project and director of the MPIfR, has received the prestigious Tycho Brahe Medal of the European Astronomical Society (EAS). He has been honored for significant advances in Very Long Baseline Interferometry that led to the first images of the shadows [...]
The Max Planck Society (MPG) and the Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) jointly offer outstanding postdoctoral researchers in the fields of physics, chemistry, mathematics, computer science and earth sciences a prestigious four-year appointment in a unique research environment. The cooperation between the MPG and the WIS offers talented researchers the opportunity to participate in innovative [...]
The Breakthrough Listen program aims at finding evidence of civilizations beyond Earth using the world’s most powerful instruments (e.g. MeerKAT). Until now the use of VLBI for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has been limited. University of Manchester Phd student Kelvin Wandia and collaborators demonstrated a new data analysis/interpretation scheme for SETI using VLBI. They have used the [...]
For a study to be published in the Astronomy & Astrophysics journal, scientists from a number of leading research institutions, all members of the Opticon-RadioNet Pilot, using LOFAR telescope detected 47 satellites to emit so-called "unintended electromagnetic radiation". Unintended electromagnetic radiation emanates from the electronics of the satellites, not necessarily linked to the transmission system. [...]
RadioNet Newsletter 06/2023 issued. Read it here.
The extensive report of new Science Vision and Infrastructure Roadmap for European Astronomy is now available.
An international collaboration of European astronomers including scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) and Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute, AEI) have published the results of more than 25 years of observations from six of the World's most sensitive radio telescopes. Along with other international collaborations, the European and Indian Pulsar Timing [...]
The 52nd Young European Radio Astronomers Conference (YERAC) will be held in Manchester/Jodrell Bank, UK, from 12-15 September 2023. YERAC has been running since 1968, giving up to 40 early career researchers from across Europe, nominated from their institution director, an opportunity to meet and present their research to their peers. Registration will be open [...]
The Special Session SS38 European Forum of Astronomical Communities will take place on 10 July 2023 at the EAS 2023 in Krakow. The aim of this session is to maintain the platform for discussion on how to support underrepresented astronomy communities in Europe to identify ways of increasing access to training, mentoring, grants, etc. to present current [...]
The Max Planck Society call for APEX Proposals is open. See the call here. Deadline: 5 July 2023 (18:00 CEST). Image: © ESO