Frits Sweijen
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PDRA @ Durham University working on LOFAR VLBI 📡
What better to push into production at the end of a work day
2 months ago
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When the code you overhauled massively runs and actually works
3 months ago
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Daily driving
@zen-browser.app
for a bit has been a nice switch of browser. Built-in side-by-side tab view at the whim of a quick keyboard shortcut is not something I thought I missed.
3 months ago
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The baboon luminosity function
#NAM2025
4 months ago
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LOFAR needs stickers you say? Well say no more
4 months ago
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All set for the opening plenary of
#NAM2025
4 months ago
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Happy to have been a coauthor on this paper led by Maria Arias and
@rtimmerman.bsky.social
looking at the crab nebula with the full International
#LOFAR
Telescope that was put on arxiv yesterday! Lots of nice sub-arcsecond detail is revealed. Go check out the paper on arxiv
arxiv.org/abs/2506.19460
4 months ago
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quickref.me
quite a nice cheat sheet collection for a variety of stuff.
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QuickRef.ME - Quick Reference Cheat Sheet
Share quick reference and cheat sheet for developers
https://quickref.me/
5 months ago
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Yep, ionosphere
5 months ago
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reposted by
Frits Sweijen
Emmy Escott
5 months ago
📣 Calling all ECR Radio Astronomers! The deadline for the SKAO Careers Webinar which will be held Monday 10am is Friday 9am! Sign up now using this link:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/skao-caree...
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SKAO Careers Webinar
The UK SKAO Science Committee Early Career Researcher Group are hosting a webinar on careers in the SKAO for ECRs in radio astronomy
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/skao-careers-webinar-tickets-1372455885499?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Baader-Meinhof effect at work. Submit a telescope proposal and mysteriously "all of today's arxiv" is about that topic...
6 months ago
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In case you were wondering what uv coverage the Egyptian pyramids (well, those listed on Wikipedia at least) would achieve if they did decameter observations.
@rtimmerman.bsky.social
6 months ago
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Another exciting paper that I am thrilled to have contributed to landed on arxiv earlier this week: a review of the last decade of high resolution imaging with LOFAR! Head over there now to see how far we have come in just a decade and what exciting prospects lie ahead.
arxiv.org/abs/2502.06946
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A decade of sub-arcsecond imaging with the International LOFAR Telescope
The International LOFAR Telescope (ILT) is a pan-European radio interferometer with baselines up to 2,000 km. This provides sub-arcsecond resolution at frequencies of <200 MHz. Since starting science ...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06946
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Press release time!
noirlab.edu/public/news/...
It was a pleasure to be co-author on this paper about the z=4.9 quasar J1601+3102 led by my colleague over at
@noirlabastro.bsky.social
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Gemini North Teams Up With LOFAR to Reveal Largest Radio Jet Ever Seen in the Early Universe - The monster jet spans at least 200,000 light-years and formed when the Universe was less than 10% of its ...
Making use of the Gemini North telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, funded in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation and operated by NSF NOIRLab, astronomers have charact...
https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2506/
9 months ago
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Elevators really need an "oops wrong floor" undo button
11 months ago
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@rtimmerman.bsky.social
digging into the topic of mysterious filaments in AGNs
#SALFX
11 months ago
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Kicking off
#SALFX
this morning learning about low frequency EoR studies and ram pressure stripping seen by LOFAR.
11 months ago
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The Shanghai metro is quite amazing. Probably the most efficient public transport network I have experienced so far.
11 months ago
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5 AM train to London this morning then flying off to Shanghai for the annual dose of low frequency science at
#SALF
😱
11 months ago
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