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VIRAC astronomy specialist reports research results at the international conference "YERAC 2018"

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During the period from 4-7 September, 2020 the international conference "YERAC 2018" took place in in Dwingeloo, the Netherlands, hosted by JIVE and ASTRON at their headquarters. VUAS ERI VIRAC and ERAF project No.1.1.1.1/16/A/213 "Studies of Physical-Chemical Processes of the Interstellar Environment" (ASTRA) astronomy technician J. Šteinbergs also took participation in this conference and his business trip was funded from the project. This conference is intended for young radio astronomy students and scientists to present and discuss their research results, as well as to help young researchers gain international contacts.


The conference was held for the 48th time and it was organised by JIV-ERIC (the Joint Institute for VLBI-ERIC - The Joint Institute for Very Long Baseline Interferometry) and ASTRON (Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy). The conference was attended by 32 participants. Information about the conference YERAC 2018 is available at  http://jive.eu/yerac2018/index.php/ .

J. Šteibergs speaking at the YERAC conference



A report was presented in the conference Janis Steinbergs, Vladislavs Bezrukovs, Ivars Shmelds, Karina Skirmante, Artis Aberfelds, Mārcis Bleiders, Artūrs Orbidāns, Marcin Gawroński, Roman Feiler “First VLBI maser observations in Irbene – Torun baseline”. In the report achievements of the project ASTRA activity 3.4 "Interpretation of CH3OH maser observations” and this report is also one of the results of this project.


The conference provided a number of concrete initiatives for further research on project No.1.1.1.1/16/A/213 "Studies of Physical-Chemical Processes of the Interstellar Environment" (ASTRA).

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