Coordinator: Anton Zensus Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie (MPIfR) EC Contract No:

RadioNet3 – 27 Partners MPG ASTRON IRAM INAF JIVE UMAN OSO UCAM STFC SRON OBSPARIS UOXF UAH (IGN) TUD ESO KASI BORD UORL Fraunhofer U.Turku UMK UCO VENT AALTO NRF CSIRO ILT EC Contract N o :

RadioNet3 - Facts  Programme duration: 2012 – 2015  Total EC contribution: €  20 Work Packages  6 Networking Activities (NA)  4 Joint Research Activities (JRA)  9 Transnational Activities (TNA)  Management (MGT) EC Contract No:

NA - Weaving the fabric of science  QueSERA : preparing a strategy for structuring radio astronomy in Europe  New Skills & MARCUs: training astronomers to exploit current and future astronomical facilities  ERATec : strengthening the collaboration between engineers, operators and scientists  Science Working Group: supporting and organising conferences and workshops  Spectrum management: securing availability of the radio spectrum EC Contract N o :

JRAs – technical development for future discoveries  UniBoard 2 will create high-performance computing platform for radio- astronomical applications  AETHER - A DVANCED E UROPEAN T ERAHERTZ H ETERODYNE R ECEIVERS will develop innovative heterodyne detectors beyond 1 THz and mapping speed for ALMA. EC Contract N o :

 Hilado - High performance processing of Large Astronomical Datasets in an Open-source environment will create optimized prototype software and demonstrator processing pipelines for existing and emerging radio telescopes  DIVA – Developments In VLBI Astronomy will develop wide-band dm/cm-receivers and wide bandwidth and high-bitrate VLBI backends (DBBC3) JRAs – technical development for future discoveries EC Contract N o :

TNA - Ensuring scientific excellence The RadioNet3 provides the access to facilities over an unprecedented range of wavelengths:  EVN (JIVE, Ef, Wb, Jb, Mc, Nt, SRT, On, Yb, Tr, Mh, Ir)  JCMT  e-MERLIN  Effelsberg  LOFAR  WSRT  PdBI & PV  APEX  SRT EC Contract N o :

EVN – European VLBI Network Correlator JIVE (NL) 100-m Effelsberg (DE) 76-m Jodrell Bank (UK) 14 x 25-m dishes WSRT (NL) 25-m & 20-m OSO (SE) 32-m Noto (IT) 32-m Medicina (IT) 64-m SRT (IT) 40-m Yebes (ES) 32-m Torun (PL) 14-m Metsähovi (FI) 32-m Irbene (LV) Offers 608 hrs under TNA Contact: Bob Campbell © JIVE

James Clark Maxwell Telescope Location: Mauna Kea/ USA Organization: STFC Dish: 15 m Freq.: 450 μm - 1 mm Offers 396 hours under TNA Contact: Iain Coulson EC Contract N o :

© UMAN / STFC e - MERLIN Location: Macclesfield / UK Organization: UMAN / STFC 7 dishes spanning 217km Freq.: 1.3 – 24 GHz Offers 635 hours under TNA Contact: Simon Garrington EC Contract N o :

Effelsberg Location: Effelsberg / DE Organization: MPIfR Dish: 100-m Freq.: 408 MHz – 86 GHz Offers 906 hours under TNA Contact: Alex Kraus Credit: Norbert Tacken EC Contract N o :

© LOFAR / ASTRON LOFAR Location: Dwingeloo/ NL Organization: ILT 40 dishes (NL) + 8 (DE, FR, SE & UK) Freq.: 10 – 240 MHz Offers 429 hours under TNA Contact: Antonis Polatidis EC Contract N o :

© WSRT / ASTRON EC Contract N o : Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) Location: Westerbork / NL Organization: ASTRON 14 dishes spanning 2.7 km Freq.:115 MHz – 8.65 GHz Offers 442 hours under TNA Contact: Antonis Polatidis

© IRAM / Rebus IRAM – Plateau de Bure Interferometer Location: Hautes-Alpes / FR Organization: IRAM Six 15-m dishes Freq.: 0.8 – 3 mm Offers 122 hours under TNA Contact: Roberto Neri EC Contract N o :

© IRAM / Rebus IRAM – 30m telescope Pico Veleta Location: Granada / ES Organization: IRAM 30-m dish Freq.: 0.8 – 3 mm Offers 380 hours under TNA Contact: Nicolas Billot EC Contract N o :

© ESO APEX – Atacama Pathfinder Experiment Location: Llano Chajnator / Chile Organization: OSO (ESO & MPG) 12-m dish Freq.: 0.2 – 1.3 mm Offers 279 hours under TNA Contact: Magnus Thomasson EC Contract N o :

SRT – Sardinia Radio Telescope Location: San Basilio / IT Organization: INAF 64-m dish Freq.: 300 MHz – 100 GHz Offers 255 hours under TNA Contact: Karl-Heinz Mack EC Contract N o :

Contact: Coordinator: Anton Zensus Manager: Izabela Rottmann Project Scientist: Franco Mantovani Project Assistent: Andrea Danzel TNA/NA travel: Aukelien van den Poll EC Contract N o :

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