Sentences with phrase «european radio interferometry»

The European Radio Interferometry School (ERIS) is a bi-annual graduate level school that forms a fundamental part of the training and development of young radio astronomers.

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Thanks to recent distance measurements with an international network of radio telescopes, including the EVN (European Very Long Baseline Interferometry Network) telescopes, the NSF's Green Bank Telescope and Arecibo Observatory, astronomers realized that VLA J2130 +12 is at a distance of 7,200 light years, showing that it is well within our own Milky Way galaxy and about five times closer than M15.

The school offers both lectures and practical tutorials that are given by invited specialists in interferometry who have expertise in using the main European radio astronomy facilities (e-MERLIN, EVN, IRAM, LOFAR, ALMA).

The satellite is part of an international collaboration led by ISAS and backed by Japan's National Astronomical Observatory; NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, CA; the National Science Foundation's National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), Socorro, NM; the Canadian Space Agency; the Australia Telescope National Facility; the European VLBI Network and the Joint Institute for Very Long Baseline Interferometry in Europe.