EVN/JIVE Newsletter #58 (January 2021)

Published on 8 January 2021

The January 2021 issue of the EVN/JIVE Newsletter is available! You are welcome to read it under:

https://www.evlbi.org/sites/default/files/shared/EVN-Newsletter-58.pdf

Table of Contents:

Welcome message from the Chair of the EVN Board of Directors and the Director of the Joint Institute for VLBI-ERIC

Call for proposals to the European VLBI Network (EVN) **Deadline is Feb 1st 2021, 16h UTC**

EVN Science Highlights:

- A novel approach to visibility-space modelling of interferometric gravitational lens observations at high angular resolution
- Precise radio astrometry and new developments for the next-generation of instruments
- Very long baseline interferometry imaging of the advancing ejecta in the first gamma-ray nova V407 Cygni

Network highlights:

- VLBI20-30: a scientific roadmap for the next decade and technical challenges (https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.02347)
- New Q and W band receivers at the 40m IGN Yebes radio telescope
- EVN Observation Planner - a new tool in the VLBI family

Other News:
- The CASA-VLBI workshop goes virtual
- EC H2020 OPTICON-RadioNet Pilot (ORP): A new European network combining optical and radio astronomy research infrastructures
- CRAF activities to mitigate the impact of satellite mega-constellations
- News from EC H2020 JUMPING JIVE
- Events

Previous issues of the EVN Newsletter can be found here:
https://www.evlbi.org/newsletter