Sanne Bloot
@astrosanne.bsky.social
ASTRON | Kapteyn Institute | Astronomy PhD student | she/her
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📣 For the first time ever, scientists have confirmed seeing a giant explosion on a star other than our own!
Our XMM-Newton observatory and the LOFAR telescope contributed to making this long sought-after discovery 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
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Our XMM-Newton observatory and the LOFAR telescope contributed to making this long sought-after discovery 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
🔭 🧪 ☄️ ☀️ 1/
November 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
📣 For the first time ever, scientists have confirmed seeing a giant explosion on a star other than our own!
Our XMM-Newton observatory and the LOFAR telescope contributed to making this long sought-after discovery 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
🔭 🧪 ☄️ ☀️ 1/
Our XMM-Newton observatory and the LOFAR telescope contributed to making this long sought-after discovery 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
🔭 🧪 ☄️ ☀️ 1/
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Thrilled to announce our new Springer Nature paper is now live!
We’ve tuned into a massive stellar storm on the radio! 🌟📡
We’ve tuned into a massive stellar storm on the radio! 🌟📡
November 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Thrilled to announce our new Springer Nature paper is now live!
We’ve tuned into a massive stellar storm on the radio! 🌟📡
We’ve tuned into a massive stellar storm on the radio! 🌟📡
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Next #SETILive: Pulsing White Dwarf!
TODAY, 28 August, 11:00 am PDT
Join us for a livestream with Simon Steel and Sanne Bloot on one of the universe’s most puzzling new discoveries: a white dwarf that emits highly polarized radio pulses in a patterned rhythm. 🧪 👩🔬
WATCH LIVE: buff.ly/Bz18EJY
TODAY, 28 August, 11:00 am PDT
Join us for a livestream with Simon Steel and Sanne Bloot on one of the universe’s most puzzling new discoveries: a white dwarf that emits highly polarized radio pulses in a patterned rhythm. 🧪 👩🔬
WATCH LIVE: buff.ly/Bz18EJY
August 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Next #SETILive: Pulsing White Dwarf!
TODAY, 28 August, 11:00 am PDT
Join us for a livestream with Simon Steel and Sanne Bloot on one of the universe’s most puzzling new discoveries: a white dwarf that emits highly polarized radio pulses in a patterned rhythm. 🧪 👩🔬
WATCH LIVE: buff.ly/Bz18EJY
TODAY, 28 August, 11:00 am PDT
Join us for a livestream with Simon Steel and Sanne Bloot on one of the universe’s most puzzling new discoveries: a white dwarf that emits highly polarized radio pulses in a patterned rhythm. 🧪 👩🔬
WATCH LIVE: buff.ly/Bz18EJY
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At CSIRO today to talk all about wide-field radio monitors. Exciting times ahead. Thanks Josh Pritchard for organising. Great opening talk by Ron Ekers on the history and future of all-sky monitors
August 4, 2025 at 1:19 AM
At CSIRO today to talk all about wide-field radio monitors. Exciting times ahead. Thanks Josh Pritchard for organising. Great opening talk by Ron Ekers on the history and future of all-sky monitors
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Another great result by @astrosanne.bsky.social. She has found an new long-period transient and found it contains another white dwarf - which is doing a weird dance in the sky with another star. Hear about it all here at this snazzy video: www.youtube.com/shorts/i8Re1...
Astronomers uncover white dwarf system emitting bright radio pulses with strange rhythm
YouTube video by AstronNL
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July 17, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Another great result by @astrosanne.bsky.social. She has found an new long-period transient and found it contains another white dwarf - which is doing a weird dance in the sky with another star. Hear about it all here at this snazzy video: www.youtube.com/shorts/i8Re1...
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An international research team led by @astrosanne.bsky.social at ASTRON, identify a mystifying Long-Period Transient with 100% polarized radio emission, suggesting new type of cosmic radio source: www.astron.nl/astronomers-...
Astronomers uncover white dwarf system emitting bright radio pulses with strange rhythm | ASTRON
Researchers identify a mystifying Long-Period Transient with 100% polarized radio emission, suggesting new type of cosmic radio source. A team of astronomers at ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for…
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July 17, 2025 at 7:48 AM
An international research team led by @astrosanne.bsky.social at ASTRON, identify a mystifying Long-Period Transient with 100% polarized radio emission, suggesting new type of cosmic radio source: www.astron.nl/astronomers-...
New LPT alert! Our paper on the LOFAR discovery of J1634+44, a new long-period transient with a strange timing pattern and even stranger polarisation properties, was published today in A&A. Check it out here: www.aanda.org/articles/aa/...
Strongly polarised radio pulses from a new white-dwarf-hosting long-period transient | Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A)
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July 17, 2025 at 10:15 AM
New LPT alert! Our paper on the LOFAR discovery of J1634+44, a new long-period transient with a strange timing pattern and even stranger polarisation properties, was published today in A&A. Check it out here: www.aanda.org/articles/aa/...
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Delighted to announce that the next Bcool meeting take place from April 9-11th 2024 at ASTRON! The deadline for registration and abstract submission is March 8th. Details: indico.astron.nl/e/bcool2024
11th BCool meeting
11th BCool meetingImage: Allison LiThe 11th Bcool meeting will take place from April 9-11 2024 at ASTRON in the Netherlands, situated in the lush Dwingelderveld National Park. The aim of this meeting is to strengthen links between the worlds of stellar magnetism and radio astronomy. The scope of the meeting covers both observations and theory in topics such as:magnetic fields of stars, brown dwarfs, and planetsdynamo processesstellar winds and coronal mass ejectionsstar-planet...
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February 8, 2024 at 11:03 AM
Delighted to announce that the next Bcool meeting take place from April 9-11th 2024 at ASTRON! The deadline for registration and abstract submission is March 8th. Details: indico.astron.nl/e/bcool2024
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If you want to know everything about the radio properties of AU Mic (and stellar radio emission in general), check out Sanne's paper: arxiv.org/abs/2312.09071
Phenomenology and periodicity of radio emission from the stellar...
Stellar radio emission can measure a star's magnetic field strength and structure, plasma density and dynamics, and the stellar wind pressure impinging on exoplanet atmospheres. However, properly...
arxiv.org
December 15, 2023 at 10:57 AM
If you want to know everything about the radio properties of AU Mic (and stellar radio emission in general), check out Sanne's paper: arxiv.org/abs/2312.09071
The first paper of my PhD was accepted in A&A this week! We observed the young and active M dwarf AU Microscopii with the Australia Telescope Compact Array for over 250 hours and found a wide variety of radio bursts. It's up on the arXiv now! arxiv.org/abs/2312.09071
Phenomenology and periodicity of radio emission from the stellar...
Stellar radio emission can measure a star's magnetic field strength and structure, plasma density and dynamics, and the stellar wind pressure impinging on exoplanet atmospheres. However, properly...
arxiv.org
December 15, 2023 at 11:18 AM
The first paper of my PhD was accepted in A&A this week! We observed the young and active M dwarf AU Microscopii with the Australia Telescope Compact Array for over 250 hours and found a wide variety of radio bursts. It's up on the arXiv now! arxiv.org/abs/2312.09071
Reposted by Sanne Bloot
Enjoying the first ASTRON/JIVE Astrofest since COVID-19. Lots of awesome science and fantastic people!
October 18, 2023 at 11:15 AM
Enjoying the first ASTRON/JIVE Astrofest since COVID-19. Lots of awesome science and fantastic people!