Effelsberg Newsletter ...
... in englischer Sprache.
The Effelsberg Newsletters provide news and update information about the Effelsberg Radio Observatory, mainly for professional astronomers.
- Call for proposals - Deadline September 29, 2025, UT 15.00
- Whiteout in Effelsberg
- MPIfR goes Wacken
- Call for proposals – Deadline May 28, 2025, UT 15.00
- News from the observatory
- M87: Revisiting the GMVA and ALMA imaging of the ring and the jet in the centre
- The European Pulsar Timing Array received the Group Achievement Award of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Greetings from the director
- Call for proposals – Deadline February 4, 2025, UT 15.00
- News from the observatory
- Karl Martin Menten
- M87's Powerful Jet Unleashes Rare Gamma-ray Outburst
- Call for proposals – Deadline Sep 26, 2024, UT 15.00
- News from the observatory
- Karl Schwarzschild Medal 2024 for Anton Zensus
- Call for proposals – Deadline May 30, 2024, UT 15.00
- News from the observatory
- A wobbling magnetised star challenges the origin of repeating fast radio bursts
- Greetings from the director
- Call for proposals – Deadline Feb 5, 2024, UT 15.00
- The new Ultra Broad Band receiver for the 100m-telescope
- Extreme stars share unique properties that may provide a link tomysterious sources
- World Radiocommunication Conference puts radio astronomy on the agenda
- Call for proposals – Deadline Sep 28, 2023, UT 15.00
- News from the observatory
- A new view of the Universe
- Call for proposals – Deadline Jun 01, 2023, UT 15:00
- How the black hole in M87 launches a jet
- The mass of the black hole in OJ 287 and the project MOMO
- Greetings from the director
- Call for proposals – Deadline Feb 02, 2023, UT 15:00
- News from the observatory
- To the Heart of 3C 273
- Call for proposals - Deadline Sep 29, 2022 UT15:00
- Unraveling Pulsar Twinkling
- Images at the Highest Angular Resolution in Astronomy
- Call for proposals – Deadline Jun 01, 2022, UT 15:00
- Cosmic flashes pinpointed to a surprising location in space
- Greetings from the director
- Call for proposals - Deadline Feb 10, 2022 UT15:00
- Einstein wins again
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- Call for proposals – Deadline Oct 5, 2021, UT 15:00
- Opticon-RadioNet-Pilot Transnational Access Programme
- Monitoring of FAST's early pulsar discoveries
- Aftermaths of the flooding event in July at the observatory
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- Call for proposals – Deadline June 3, 2021, UT 15:00
- Opticon-RadioNet-Pilot Transnational Access Programme
- The Effelsberg Radio Telescope turns 50
- Effelsberg provides the last brick for the GLObal View on STAR Formation (GLOSTAR) survey
- The Time Travel Trail – A new astronomical walk around the Effelsberg 100-m radio telescope
Contents
- Greetings from the Director
- Call for proposals – Deadline February 3, 2021, UT 15:00
- The new Opticon-RadioNet-Pilot
- News from the Observatory
- Long-term Study of FRB 121102 with Effelsberg
- Spectrum Compatibility Studies with Python: the pycraf package
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- Call for proposals – Deadline Oct 5, 2020, UT 15:00
- News from the observatory
- Radio relics: giant magnetic fields in galaxy clusters
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- Preface
- Call for proposals – Deadline June 3, 2020, UT 15:00
- Detection of pulsed radio emission from new magnetar Swift J1818.0-1607 and measurements of its spin-down properties
- Giant magnetic fields spanning across the Andromeda Galaxy - 40 years of observations with the Effelsberg telescope
- A Walk in the Woods - Stations of the Effelsberg Galaxy Walk in Spring 2020
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- Greetings from the Director
- Call for proposals – Deadline February 3, 2020, UT 15:00
- RadioNet Transnational Access Programme
- A Repeating Fast Radio Burst from a Spiral Galaxy
- 36 GHz Methanol Lines from Nearby Galaxies
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- Call for proposals – Deadline October 2, 2019, UT 15:00
- RadioNet Transnational Access Programme
- Replacement of an Elevation Gear
- Awards and recognition for research with Effelsberg - spanning generations
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- Call for proposals – Deadline June 4, 2019, UT 15:00
- RadioNet Transnational Access Programme
- A new Ku-Band (12-18 GHz) receiver for the 100m-telescope
- Lifting the veil on the black hole at the heart of our Galaxy
- The 100-m telescope in Spring
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- Greatings from the Directors
- Call for proposals – Deadline February 4, 2019, UT 15:00
- RadioNet Transnational Access Programme
- The 100-m telescope supported NASA during the landing of the InSight spacecraft on Mars
- High-precision linear and circular polarimetry with the Effelsberg telescope and the case study of OJ 287
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- Call for proposals – Deadline October 4, 2018, UT 15:00
- RadioNet Transnational Access Programme
- The new Effelsberg Q-band (33 GHz to 50 GHz) receiver
- Astronomy Walks in Effelsberg – how Sirius is coming to Chile
- Who-is-who in Effelsberg?: Zegeye Mekasha Kidane
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- Call for proposals – Deadline June 5, 2018, UT 15:00
- RadioNet Transnational Access Programme
- A new Q-band Receiver for the 100-m Telescope
- Report on the workshop “The Big Impact of a Big Dish: Science with the Effelsberg 100-m telescope"
- Report on the visit of the Thai Science & Technology Minister and NARIT to MPIfR
- Who-is-who in Effelsberg?: André Küllenberg
- Global Millimetre-VLBI Observations at 86 GHz with the Effelsberg telescope
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- Greetings from the Director
- Call for proposals – Deadline Feb 5, 2018, UT 15:00
- RadioNet Transnational Access Programme
- Confirming FAST’s pulsar candidates using Effelsberg
- First VLBI Fringes between Effelsberg and ALMA
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- Call for Proposals: Deadline – October 4, 2017, 15:00 UT
- Workshop Invitation:
The Big Impact of a Big Dish: Science with the Effelsberg 100-m Telescope, February 20‐21, 2018
- News in Brief
- Science & Technology Highlights: Phased Array Feed at Effelsberg
- Who is Who in Effelsberg?: Majid Esmailpour Motlagh
- Open Door at Effelsberg Observatory
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- Call for Proposals: Deadline – June 1, 2017, 15:00 UT
- News in Brief
- Workshop invitation: “Science with the Effelsberg 100‐m Telescope”, November 6‐7, 2017
- Science Highlights: Giant Magnetic Fields in the Universe
- 50 Years of Pulsars - Beginnings at Effelsberg
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- Call for Proposals: Deadline – February 6, 2017, 15:00 UT
- Technical News:
- The MPIfR S-Band System for MeerKAT
- First VLBI Fringes with the new C+ Broad Band receiver
- Science Highlights:
- Finding the Home of a Fast Radio Burst
- HI4PI - a new full-sky HI line survey of the Milky Way
- Who is Who in Effelsberg?: Holger Homburg
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- Call for Proposals: Deadline - October 5, 2016, 15:00 UT
- Scientific Highlights:
- Occultation of a radio galaxy by an asteroid
- 60 Years Astropeiler Stockert
- Other News in Brief:
- Meeting announcement: Science with the Effelsberg 100-m telescope
- MPIfR’s 50th Anniversary: Summer Party at Effelsberg
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- Call for Proposals: Deadline - June 9, 2016 15:00 UT
- On the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the MPIfR:
- Foundation and Early Years of the Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie
- Technical News:
- A Phased Array Feed Receiver (PAF) for the Effelsberg Telescope
- Effelsberg Water Vapour Radiometer
- Other News in Brief
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- Call for Proposals: Deadline - February 3, 2016, 15:00 UT
- Technical News: Recent Technical Developments in the EVN: Towards 4 Gbps VLBI
- Science Highlight: Effelsberg-Bonn HI Survey: Milky Way Data Released
- Public Outreach
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- Call for Proposals: Deadline - October 1, 2015, 15:00 UT
- Technical News:
- New Technical Department for Digital Signal Processing
- New Workshop Building for the Observatory
- Mark6: A New VLBI Recorder for Effelsberg
- Science Highlight: Twisted magnetic loop in the Giraffe galaxy IC 342
- Magnetic-Field Discovery Gives Clues to Galaxy-Formation Processes -
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- Call for Proposals: Deadline - June 3, 2015, 15:00 UT
- Technical News: A new broad-band receiver for the 100-m telescope
- Science Highlight: A Line Survey of the Prototypical Carbon Star IRC+10216
- Who is Who in Effelsberg? Reinhard Keller
- Public Outreach: Live Observations with the 100-m Radio Telescope - Astronomy Day 2015
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- Call for Proposals: Deadline - February 5, 2015 15:00 UT
- Technical News::
- Opening the African Sky: MPIfR Builds New Receivers for MeerKAT
- All Those Little Helpers: Part III - Online Plotter
- Science Highlights:
- RadioAstron Delivers First Space VLBI Polarization Image at 22 GHz
- The Effelsberg LOFAR Sky Survey
- Public Outreach: New Film Presentation at the Visitors' Pavillon
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- Call for Proposals: Deadline - October 6, 2014 15:00 UT
- Technical News:
- Status of the New Secondary Focus K-Band Receiver
- All Those Little Helpers: Part II
- Science Highlights:
- VLBI Monitoring of Pleiades Stars: Hipparcos and Testing Stellar Models
- A Dynamically Driven TRansition form Atomic to Molecular IVCs
- Who is Who in Effelsberg? - Rainer Sachert
- Public Outreach: School Academy of Bonn University on Visit to Effelsberg
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- Call for Proposals: Deadline - June 4, 2014 15:00 UT
- Technical News:
- First Light Observations with the New K-Band Receiver
- Status of the Effelsberg VLBI Equipment
- All Those Little Helpers
- Science Highlight:
- Award-winning Research with Effelsberg
- Who is Who in Effelsberg? - Klaus Bruns
- Public Outreach: The 100-m Radio Telescope on Display in Heidelberg
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- Call for Proposals: Deadline - February 5, 2014 15:00 UT
- Technical News:
- The New K-Band Receiver for the Effelsberg Telescope
- About the Calibration of Broadband Receivers
- About Ghosts: Frequency Switching and the Folding Problem
- Science Highlight:
- Towards the First Data Release of the Effelsberg-Bonn HI Survey
- Who is Who in Effelsberg? - Norbert Junkes
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- Call for Proposals: Deadline - October 9, 2013, 15:00 UT
- Science Highlight: The discovery of radio pulsations from the first Galactic Centre pulsar with Effelsberg
- Special Article: Glyn Haslam (1936-2013)
- Who is Who in Effelsberg? Marcus Keseberg
- NRW Science Minister Visiting Effelsberg
- In Memoriam: Gabi Breuer
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- Call for Proposals: Deadline - June 5, 2013, 15:00 UT
- First light of a 64k-channel spectrometer at the 100-m Telescope
- LOFAR pulsar observations at Effelsberg
- Probing gravity where no one has done before
- Who is Who in Effelsberg? Klaus Schlich
- Astronomy Day 2013 & Girls Day 2013
- The "Modern Radio Universe 2013" Conference
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- Call for Proposals: Deadline - February 6, 2013, 15:00 UT
- Geodesist measure paraboloid deformations of the Effelsberg telescope with a laser scanner
- Physical constant passes the alcohol test
- Observer's View: Bosco Yung
- Who is Who in Effelsberg?: Alexander Hochgürtel
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- Call for Proposals: Deadline - October 9, 2012, 13:00 UT
- The Ultra-Broadband Receiver - Motivation, funding and current status
- Who is Who in Effelsberg?: Thomas Wedel
- 40 Years of Effelsberg Radio Telescope
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- Call for Proposals: Deadline - June 6, 2012, 13:00 UT
- The New FFTS for Effelsberg
- F-Gamma Program
- Who is Who in Effelsberg?: Annemie Franzen & Sylvia Wilfert
- Astronomy Day 2012 in Effelsberg
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- Call for Proposals: Deadline - February 8, 2012, 13:00 UT
- First results of the Effelsberg-Bonn HI Survey
- Effelsberg delivers first fringes with RadioAstron: Space VLBI sets a new world-record in radio interferometry
- Who is Who in Effelsberg?: Peter Vogt
- Extension of the Effelsberg Milky Way Walk
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- Call for Proposals: Deadline - October 11, 2011, 13:00 UT
- Back to Low Frequencies: An Ultra-broadband Receiver System for the 100-m Telescope
- VLBA and Effelsberg observations of GBR110328A
- First pulsars from the Northern HTRU Pulsar Survey
- VLBI at Effelsberg: Looking Back and Looking Forward
- Who is Who in Effelsberg?: Ralf Kisky
- Effelsberg in the Cartoon
- Open door at the Effelsberg Observatory - September 10, 2011
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- Call for Proposals: Deadline - June 8, 2011, 13:00 UT
- The DBBC, a new VLBI backend for Effelsberg
- The Construction of the Effelsberg 100-m Radio Telescope - Part II
- Who is Who in Effelsberg?: Willi Schmitz
- April 09, 2011 - Astronomy Day at the Visitor's Pavilion of the Effelsberg Radio Telescope
- March 26, 2011 - Inauguration of the Galaxy Walk, the third astronomical walk at Effelsberg Radio Observatory
- Celebrating the 40th Year Anniversary
Contents
- Greetings from the Director
- Call for Proposals: Deadline - February 9, 2011, 13:00 UT
- Technical News
- Deep Effelsberg survey of magnetic fields in the Andromeda galaxy
- CRAB Giant Radio Pulse (GRP) detections ...
- Effelsberg Teams Up with Fermi to Map Pulsar Geometry Across the Spectrum
- Who is Who in Effelsberg?: Jörg Barthel
- Who is Who in Effelsberg?: Benjamin Winkel
- The Construction of the Effelsberg 100-m Radio Telescope - Part I
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- Call for Proposals: Deadline - October 11, 2010, 15:00 UT
- New Telescope Control System for the 100-m telescope
- Effelsberg plays role in weighing planets and exciting the public
- The Effelsberg-Bonn HI Survey (EBHIS) in Full Swing
- Who is Who in Effelsberg?: Norbert Tacken
- Who is Who in Effelsberg?: Heiko Hafok
- The 100-m radio telescope will soon turn 40!
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- Call for Proposals: Deadline - June 7, 2010, 15:00 UT
- Black Widow in Space
- Pulsars in Many Octaves
- LOFAR Station at Effelsberg - Part of the international telescope and one on its own
- Fachbeirat Visit 2010
- What's on? 27 September - 1 October 2010 "European Single Dish School in the Era of Arrays, MPIfR, Bonn"
- The Observer's View: Ewan Barr
- Who is Who in Effelsberg?: Uwe Bach
- Visitor's Pavilion and 100-m Radio Telescope
Contents
- Message from the Director
- Call for Proposals: Deadline - February 8, 2010, 15:00 UT
- Interview with an Effelsberg Visitor: Dr. Simon Ellingsen
- Who is Who in Effelsberg?: Alex Kraus
