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NOVA Annual Report 16-17-18.Pdf NEDERLANDSE ONDERZOEKSCHOOL VOOR ASTRONOMIE NETHERLANDS RESEARCH SCHOOL FOR ASTRONOMY POSTAL ADDRESS P.O. Box 9513 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands PHONE +31 (0)71 527 5852 E-MAIL [email protected] WEB www.nova-astronomy.nl ADDRESS J.H. Oort building Niels Bohrweg 2 2333 CA Leiden, The Netherlands PUBLIC OUTREACH NOVA Information Center Web: www.astronomie.nl NOVA is the alliance of the astronomical institutes of the universities of Amsterdam, Groningen, Leiden and Nijmegen, legally represented by Leiden University. Photo Front cover: Gaia’s sky in colour. Gaia’s all-sky view of our Milky Way Galaxy and neighboring galaxies, based on measurements of nearly 1.7 billion stars. The map shows the total brightness and colour of stars observed by the ESA satellite between July 2014 and May 2016. Spectacular progress in our understanding of the Milky Way has been made because the projected sky motions of 1.3 billion of these stars have also been measured by Gaia. 5 04 NOVA Networks 16 17 Network 1: Formation and evolution of galaxies: from high redshift to the present Network 2: Formation and evolution of stars and planetary systems 21 Network 3: Astrophysics in extreme conditions 25 Table of 05 Instrument Development 30 Contents 06 Building Bridges 42 Nationale Wetenschapsagenda (NWA) 07 – The Dutch Research Agenda 50 Communication, Education 01 Introduction 06 08 and Public Outreach 52 02 Mission and Landscape 10 09 NOVA organization 56 03 Diversity & Inclusiveness 14 10 PhDs in Astronomy 2016 – 2018 60 6 06 07 Introduction and major developments of the NOVA program 2016 – 2018 Astronomy is a unique discipline which from high-redshift to the present”. This theme combines top science, cutting-edge technology consists of three research networks: and education while inspiring and exciting the general public. Progress in astronomy is driven Network 1: Formation and evolution of by the combination of new facilities, big data galaxies: from high redshift to the present streams and critical thinking, with discoveries continuing at an amazing pace. Close to home Network 2: a surprising variety of planets circling nearby Formation and evolution of stars stars has been found, with characteristics very and planetary systems different from those in our own Solar System. The dusty birthplaces of galaxies, stars and Network 3: Astrophysics in extreme conditions planets, and perhaps even life itself, are being revealed with new facilities. Gravitational waves These three research themes are inter-university, from the merging of black holes, predicted dynamic and inter-connected and have been more than a century ago by Einstein, have been chosen strategically. The Netherlands has seen for the first time. Galaxies are now found a tradition of excellence in these research areas at the edge of the Universe from which the and they are part of the five big European radiation takes 13 billion years to reach Earth. research themes within the Strategic Plan for Even more remarkable is the fact that all visible European Astronomy, ASTRONET. 01 objects comprise only 5% of the Universe, with the remaining 95% consisting of mysterious The top research school grant enables NOVA dark energy and dark matter which leave no to keep its position at the world-top with directly observable trace and whose nature is a quality that is at the same level as that of Introduction not understood. The desire and curiosity to prime institutes in the USA and the UK and understand this fascinating Universe is shared Max Planck Institutes in Germany. Of vital between astronomers and the general public, importance for the success of the research and astronomy presents an excellent vehicle to programs is the development and construction enhance appreciation for the natural sciences of advanced instrumentation for Big Science and technology to children and students. and Big Data(science). There is a large synergy between astronomical research and high-tech The Netherlands Research School for R&D in the Netherlands. NOVA’s instrument Astronomy (NOVA) is the alliance of the program enables university astronomers to astronomical institutes of the universities of participate in big international instrumentation INTRODUCTION Amsterdam, Groningen, Leiden, and Nijmegen, projects. It is mainly focused on optical, founded in 1992. Since 1999, NOVA receives infrared and submillimeter instrumentation for funding as a top-research school. All university the European Southern Observatory (ESO), researchers in astronomy are part of NOVA. thereby functioning as its homebase and The research within NOVA is focused around having international impact through national INTRODUCTION the theme “The life-cycle of stars and galaxies: coordination. 08 09 Major developments of the • Measurements of the binarity of massive • Van Dishoeck received the prestigious Kavli stars in 30-Doradus, a region of very high Prize and the James Craig Watson Medal NOVA program 2016 – 2018 star formation in the Large Magellanic in 2018 Cloud, with VLT X-shooter co-built by • T he RU Gravitational Wave Group was NOVA revealed that that most very young part of the team that received the Special The reporting period 2016-2018 concludes the Dutch university astronomy continues to be stars are single, or only weakly bound to Breakthrough Prize and the Gruber Prize for final part of the top-research school Phase-4 highly productive with more than a thousand another star. This is surprising since most Cosmology in 2016 funding cycle of NOVA which was running unique refereed papers per year in 2016-2018, mature stars are mostly found in pairs. It from 2014 to the end of 2018. The interrelated most of them led by young PhD students and implies that many of the stars will acquire • Helmi became member of the KNAW in 2017 science and instrumentation program is postdocs and several of them among the most a companion later in their life – an important • H essels became member of De Jonge described below. Future instrumentation is highly cited of that year. A significant fraction aspect in understanding the evolution of Akademie in 2016 becoming increasingly focused on ESO’s is joint between NOVA institutes. In this period massive stars. Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) for which a total of 109 PhDs in astronomy were awarded. • S nik became member of De Jonge • NOVA has been at the forefront in the new first light is foreseen in 2027. The NOVA Akademie in 2017 field of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) which are flagship project is the mid-Infrared imager and extragalactic millisecond duration bursts of • de Mink received the MERAC prize in 2017 high-resolution spectrometer METIS, a first- Selected science highlights in the 2016- unknown origin. NOVA scientists have been and Smit in 2018 generation ELT instrument, of which NOVA has 2018 period include: instrumental in the discovery of new FRBs, the prestigious role as the Principal Investigator • V an den Heuvel received the 2018 Viktor including the first repeating FRB and the leading an international consortium. NOVA is Ambartsumian International Science Prize • NOVA scientists used data from ESA’s Gaia fact that its emission is nearly 100% linearly co-Investigator in the ELT first light instrument mission to map the 3D motions of stars in our polarized, requiring a strong and dynamic • H amers received the Christiaan Huygens MICADO, a near-infrared camera with own Milky Way. This led to their discovery of magneto-ionic environment. prize in 2018 unprecedented sharpness and low-resolution a major merger of the Milky Way with another • The direct detection of gravitational waves • De Zeeuw received Royal Knighthood in 2018 spectrometer capabilities. In addition, galaxy, Gaia-Enceladus. This collision had due to the merging of compact objects has NOVA participates in the design study of the a profound influence on the evolution and been one of the greatest achievements of second-generation multi-object spectrometer appearance of the Milky Way. MOSAIC as well as in R&D studies of a future the 2016-18 period. For the first black hole ELT instrument for high-contrast polarimetric • With the MUSE instrument on the VLT, co-built merger, GW150914 and the first neutron imaging of exoplanets, EPICS. by NOVA, faint Ly alpha and CIII lines were star merger GW170817, NOVA scientists measured, indicating that the reionization of played a key role in the astrophysical GRANT 2016 2017 2018 the early Universe could be caused by the interpretation and searches for an NOVA had its 5-year review in November ERC Snellen Hörandel 2016. The main findings of the international light of stars in low mass galaxies. electromagnetic counterpart. Advanced Caputi Haverkorn evaluation board (EB) were: • With the LOFAR radio telescope now in full • Simulations on the Blue Waters ERC Consoli- swing, NOVA astronomers have performed supercomputer, using the world’s fastest Levan NOVA has performed at an exemplary level a large survey of the Northern Sky detecting GPU-accelerated general relativistic dator in all the key areas of its mission: research, hundreds of thousands of previously magnetohydrodynamical code, have shown ERC Dayal Birkby instrumentation, PhD education, and undetected radio galaxies, shedding new that the jets of supermassive black holes are Starting De Mink Van Weeren education and outreach. These exemplary light on many research areas, including the aligned with the disk’s rotation axis rather NWO Hoekstra Van Leeuwen standards hold across all of the institutes, with physics of black holes and how
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