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I provide an incomplete inventory of the astronomical variability that will be found by next-generation time-domain astronomical surveys. These phenomena span the distance range from near-Earth satellites to the farthest Gamma Ray Bursts.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Andrew C. Becker

We are at the dawn of a new golden age for radio astronomy, with a new generation of facilities under construction and the global community focussed on the Square Kilometre Array as its goal for the next decade. These new facilities offer…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-12-13 R. P. Fender , M. E. Bell

We report on a program of geodetic measurements between 1994 and 2007 which used the Very Long Baseline Array and up to 10 globally distributed antennas. One of the goals of this program was to monitor positions of the array at a 1…

We present an automated search method for radio transients on the minute timescale focused on the emerging long period transients (LPTs) in image-plane radio data. The method is tuned for use with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-07 Csanád Horváth , Natasha Hurley-Walker , Samuel J. McSweeney , Timothy J. Galvin , John Morgan

Exploration of the transient Universe is an exciting and fast-emerging area within radio astronomy. Known transient phenomena range in time scales from sub-nanoseconds to years or longer, thus spanning a huge range in time domain and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-13 N. D. R. Bhat

Multi-epoch radio-interferometric observations of young stellar objects can be used to measure their displacement over the celestial sphere with a level of precision that currently cannot be attained at any other wavelength. In particular,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-28 Laurent Loinard , Rosa M. Torres , Amy J. Mioduszewski , Luis F. Rodriguez

We present the first southern-hemisphere all-sky imager and radio-transient monitoring system implemented on two prototype stations of the low-frequency component of the Square Kilometre Array. Since its deployment the system has been used…

The primary challenge in the study of explosive astrophysical transients is their detection and characterisation using multiple messengers. For this purpose, we have developed a new data-driven discovery framework, based on deep learning.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-14 Iftach Sadeh

The next generation of observatories will facilitate the discovery of new types of astrophysical transients. The detection of such phenomena, whose characteristics are presently poorly constrained, will hinge on the ability to perform blind…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-15 Iftach Sadeh

In the era of time-domain, multi-messenger astronomy, the detection of transient events on the high-energy electromagnetic sky has become more important than ever. Previous attempts to systematically search for onboard-untriggered events in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 F. Kunzweiler , B. Biltzinger , J. Greiner , J. M. Burgess

Fast radio transient search algorithms identify signals of interest by iterating and applying a threshold on a set of matched filters. These filters are defined by properties of the transient such as time and dispersion. A real transient…

We present a multimoment technique for signal classification and apply it to the detection of fast radio transients in incoherently dedispersed data. Specifically, we define a spectral modulation index in terms of the fractional variation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Laura Spitler , Jim Cordes , Shami Chatterjee , Julia Stone

We report on a very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) experiment on giant radio pulses (GPs) from the Crab pulsar in the radio 1.4 to 1.7 GHz range to demonstrate a VLBI technique for searching for fast radio bursts (FRBs). We carried out…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-29 K. Takefuji , T. Terasawa , T. Kondo , R. Mikami , H. Takeuchi , H. Misawa , F. Tsuchiya , H. Kita , M. Sekido

Multi-element interferometers such as MeerKAT, which observe with high time resolution and have a wide field-of-view, provide an ideal opportunity to perform real-time, untargeted transient and pulsar searches. However, because of data…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-21 M. C. Bezuidenhout , C. J. Clark , R. P. Breton , B. W. Stappers , E. D. Barr , M. Caleb , W. Chen , F. Jankowski , M. Kramer , K. Rajwade , M. Surnis

The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) will give us an unprecedented opportunity to investigate the transient sky at radio wavelengths. In this paper we present VAST, an ASKAP survey for Variables and Slow Transients. VAST…

We present the results of a survey of radio continuum sources near the Galactic plane using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). Our observations are designed to identify compact extragalactic sources of milliarcsecond size that can be used…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 K. Immer , A. Brunthaler , M. J. Reid , A. Bartkiewicz , Y. K. Choi , K. M. Menten , L. Moscadelli , A. Sanna , Y. W. Wu , Y. Xu , B. Zhang , X. W. Zheng

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…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-29 S. S. Varghese , K. S. Obenberger , J. Dowell , G. B. Taylor

This paper presents a search for radio transients at a frequency of 73.8 MHz (4 m wavelength) using the all-sky imaging capabilities of the Long Wavelength Demonstrator Array (LWDA). The LWDA was a 16-dipole phased array telescope, located…

A large number of observations from the Parkes 64\,m-diameter radio telescope, recorded with high time resolution, are publicly available. We have re-processed all of the observations obtained during the first four years (from 1997 to 2001)…

Transient radio sources, such as fast radio bursts, intermittent pulsars, and rotating radio transients, can offer a wealth of information regarding extreme emission physics as well as the intervening interstellar and/or intergalactic…