NRT support pages

Recent news

• New Scientific Director and New Scheduler for the NRT: Since May, 2011, Ismaël Cognard is the new scientific director of the NRT, following JM.Martin. His home institute is the Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Atmosphère et de l'Environnement (LPC2E). He is the PI of the ms pulsar timing array project in France and is also assistant director of the Station de radioastronomie de Nançay of Paris Observatory.
  Patrick Thivrier, former NRT operator, is now in charge of the NRT scheduling. He is also part-time operator during week days. He already took care of the May schedule, with the help of the former person in charge Nicole Hallet, who will continue to contribute to the NRT effort part-time. Many thanks to Nicole from the whole NRT team and NRT users for her warm and helpul central contribution.
  Contact: icognard@cnrs-orleans.fr and Patrick.Thivrier@obs-nancay.fr
  JMM 10 June 2011.
• Internet access: Since June 2010, the Nançay radio astronomy station is connected to the National Telecommunication network for Technology Education and Research (RENATER) with a 10 Gbps link, which will be used for the LOFAR station, and also for the 1 Gbps Internet access for all Nançay users. (September 27th, 2010)
• Announcement of call for proposals . Deadline : Monday, 6 May 2013 .
  See here. (April 8th, 2013)
• «Radio astronomers have uncovered 17 millisecond pulsars in our galaxy by studying unknown high-energy sources detected by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope» (Francis Reddy, 5 January 2010). The NRT is part of the 5 large radio telescope team which is in charge of the radio monitoring of pulsars for multi-wavelength studies and of the radio seaches for new objects. See the NASA press release here. JMM. 5 Jan. 2010.
• Several telescope breakdowns during the period 21 December 2009 - 4 January 2010. Several sub-system failures occured during the vacation period. The receiver, the hydraulic power system and motors and a receiver control computer were partly damaged. Laurence Alsac sent the detailed information to the users on January 4th. Observations started again on Tuesday 5 Jan. 2010 at UT 13H20. JMM. 5 Jan. 2010.
• David Delouche will defend his Orléans University PhD Thesis on 17th Dec. 2009. For more information, see the Orléans University information page.
• Grégory Desvignes received his PhD thesis and Ismael Cognard received his "Thèse d'habilitation" on 27 Nov. 2009. Gregory's work on pulsar timing with the NRT has been supervised by Ismael. He has obtained a postdoc position in Berkeley, USA.
  
  
• Previous news

Nançay Radio Telescope (NRT) general documentation

• Telescope characteristics.
• Short introduction to the NRT observations (PS file) (Preparation of the observation setup and source files, data handling and processing softwares, contact persons).
• Short introduction to the NAPS preprocessing software. (The most up to date document is the on-line help : at the NAPS prompt, type help)
• Data processing softwares and formats. (partly written in french)

Observers' pages

• NRT schedule:
  current month
  previous month
  
• Observing time application form and explanations. Application form updated on 8 April 2013
• TOO time: Variable or new sources may be observed on Target Of Opportunity time (according to the Program Committee instructions, or to the NRT scientific director's agreement). Please contact I.Cognard (scientific director) and P.Colom to check if a TOO observation may be scheduled. (cognard at cnrs-orleans.fr and pierre.colom at obspm.fr - August 2011).
• Additional informations for the NRT users.

NRT intranet (Password required - For local staff)

Teaching projects (Practical infos for teaching projects)

Links

Station de radioastronomie de Nançay

The NRT is funded by the Observatoire de Paris, the CNRS (Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers- INSU of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), and the Conseil Général of the département du Cher. The NRT ugrade (Foyer Optimisé pour le RadioTélescope, 1999-2000) was funded by the Observatoire de Paris, the CNRS and the Région Centre.