For #ScienceWeek this year we're holding a series of 4 talks on everything from planets orbiting other stars, to how to build a time machine! Booking is free, but essential! eventbrite.ie/e/exploring-ou… DCUMaths DCUPhysics DCU Science and Health Dublin City University

As part of Science Week Ireland this year Centre for Astrophysics and Relativity will be hosting a fantastic showcase of talks on black holes, time machines, satellites, & exoplanets on Wednesday, November 16th. See the below threads for the schedule of events & registration details!😎

Join us to hear about the excellent Postgraduate Programmes offer at DCU, including the Masters in Astrophysics and Relativity: dcu.ie/courses/postgr… #dcu #postgraduate #physics

The School of Mathematical Sciences in DCU is inviting applications for the permanent position of Assistant Professor in Mathematics dcu.ie/sites/default/… The closing date for applications is 6th January 2023, the application form is available below dcu.ie/hr/vacancies-c…

In a recently accepted paper arxiv.org/abs/2301.07697, we describe a new catalogue of Faraday rotation measure values (aka an RM Grid) covering ~27% of the Northern sky with the LOFAR radio telescope. This is a valuable resource for the study of cosmic magnetic fields. 1/5

To produce the catalogue, we searched through ~1 million radio sources to find ~2500 precious Faraday rotation measures (RMs). Still, this is the largest number of extremely precise RM values found to date, and is part of Data Release 2 from the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey. 2/5

This is the culmination of a huge amount of work over many years, from many people within the LOFAR Surveys and Magnetism teams. The catalogue (and associated data) can be downloaded from lofar-mksp.org/data/, along with some example code for reproducing our results. 3/5

This catalogue has already helped us make new discoveries on the properties of the magnetised cosmic web and the origin of cosmic magnetic fields, eg. see arxiv.org/abs/2210.06220 and arxiv.org/abs/2208.01336. 4/5

We also found 25 highly polarized pulsars, one of which was previously unknown arxiv.org/abs/2203.08331. More discoveries to come as we work towards an RM Grid for the whole northern sky. 5/5

📢Calling all stargazers🌠🔭 DIAS Dunsink Observatory observatory are running a series of visitor nights every fortnight until March! For more information on dates and how to book, visit dunsink.dias.ie/events #LiffeyValleyTrail #VisitDublin #LoveDublin #Astronomy #stargazing

Nice article today in the Irish Independent newspaper on our work with Low Frequency Array trying to understand the origin of cosmic magnetism Centre for Astrophysics and Relativity DCUPhysics m.independent.ie/irish-news/iri…

The gift of Faraday rotation keeps on giving!

For the 2nd of our occasional overviews of recent publications from CfAR we go to Dr Shane O'Sullivan (Shane O'Sullivan) and his paper "The redshift evolution of extragalactic magnetic fields" at arxiv.org/abs/2208.01336 or ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/link_gateway/2… 1/5 DCU Science and Health DCUPhysics DCUMaths

This week's CfAR seminar is on Wednesday at 1pm. Our speaker is Dr Volker Heesen (Hamburg Observatory, Universität Hamburg) and the title is "Cosmic rays and magnetic fields in nearby galaxies studied with radio continuum observations". Tea/coffee from 12:45pm!

I am advertising a 12 month postdoctoral position in my group to work on radio galaxy classification and Bayesian deep learning. If you would be interested please take a look! #AI4Astro The Alan Turing Institute UoM Physics & Astronomy UoM Institute for Data Science & AI jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.asp…

Congrats all! Proud supervisor of Alannah (who worked on ESA Webb Telescope data), and Aoife & Leon (working on the Baader Planetarium Echelle spectrograph).

Dublin City University School of Physical Sciences is recruiting two Assistant Professors in Astronomy/Astrophysics. Full details: dcu.ie/sites/default/… #wearehiring #jobopportunities DCU Science and Health DCU Research @scienceirel

Today on astro-ph: A search for inter-cluster filaments with LOFAR and eROSITA led by Duy Hoang with Andrea Botteon Shane O'Sullivan @dresrabulbul Thomas Pasini Dr Tessa Vernstrom ABonafede et al. We did not find any but could find important constraints on B-fields. arxiv.org/abs/2306.03904

Rounding out the afternoon at #lfm23 we're talking magnetism... Shane O'Sullivan speaking my language and demonstrating why finding polarised sources at low frequencies is so tough but so rewarding! Awesome work from the team behind the LoTSS RM Grid!

Magnetized Universe at #lfm23 now, Shane O'Sullivan showing us how important their LoTSS RM Grid results are to investigate magnetic fields in cosmic filaments