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Detection of a Low-frequency Cosmic Radio Transient Using Two LWA Stations

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2020-06-29 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

We report the detection of a potential cosmic radio transient source using the two stations of the Long Wavelength Array. The transient was detected on 18 October 2017 08:47 UTC near the celestial equator while reducing 10,240 hours of archival all-sky images from the LWA1 and LWA-SV stations. The detected transient at 34 MHz has a duration of 15 - 20 seconds and a flux density of 842 +/- 116 Jy at LWA1 and 830 +/- 92 Jy at LWA-SV. The transient source has not repeated, and its nature is not well understood. The Pan-STARRS optical telescope has detected a supernova that occurred on the edge of the position error circle of the transient on the same day.

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@article{arxiv.2006.14731,
  title  = {Detection of a Low-frequency Cosmic Radio Transient Using Two LWA Stations},
  author = {S. S. Varghese and K. S. Obenberger and J. Dowell and G. B. Taylor},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.14731},
  year   = {2020}
}

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15 pages, 9 figures