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We are developing a purely commensal survey experiment for fast (<5s) transient radio sources. Short-timescale transients are associated with the most energetic and brightest single events in the Universe. Our objective is to cover the…

Radio observations with the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) provide the agility, sensitivity, and spectral coverage to trace the evolution of the size, shape and spectra of gamma-ray burst (GRB) remnants from the earliest moments on. In the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. J. Galama , A. G. De Bruyn

Various sign-posts of recent star-formation activity, such as water and methanol maser emission or magnetically active low-mass young stars, can be detected with Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) radio arrays. The extremely accurate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-17 Laurent Loinard , Mark J. Reid

In this paper we present the results of a survey for radio transients using data obtained from the Very Large Array archive. We have reduced, using a pipeline procedure, 5037 observations of the most common pointings - i.e. the calibrator…

The unprecedented volume and rate of transient events that will be discovered by the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) demands that the astronomical community update its followup paradigm. Alert-brokers -- automated software system to…

Radio interferometers have the ability to precisely localize and better characterize the properties of sources. This ability is having a powerful impact on the study of fast radio transients, where a few milliseconds of data is enough to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 C. J. Law , G. C. Bower , S. Burke-Spolaor , B. J. Butler , P. Demorest , A. Halle , S. Khudikyan , T. J. W. Lazio , M. Pokorny , J. Robnett , M. Rupen

The digital revolution is transforming astronomy from a data-starved to a data-submerged science. Instruments such as the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), and the Square Kilometer Array…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-25 Melvyn Wright

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

Wide-field surveys are a commonly-used method for studying thousands of objects simultaneously, to investigate, e.g., the joint evolution of star-forming galaxies and active galactic nuclei. VLBI observations can yield valuable input to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Enno Middelberg , Adam Deller , John Morgan , Helge Rottmann , Walter Alef , Steven Tingay , Ray Norris , Uwe Bach , Walter Brisken , Emil Lenc

Astronomical transients are stellar objects that become temporarily brighter on various timescales and have led to some of the most significant discoveries in cosmology and astronomy. Some of these transients are the explosive deaths of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Daniel Muthukrishna , Kaisey S. Mandel , Michelle Lochner , Sara Webb , Gautham Narayan

The recent detection of a very high energy (VHE) emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) above 100 GeV performed by the MAGIC and H.E.S.S. collaborations, has represented a significant, long-awaited result for the VHE astrophysics community.…

The transient sky is composed of diverse phenomena that exhibits dramatic changes on short timescales. These events range from sub-second bursts to weeks and month timescale variability from compact systems. Several challenges need to be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-14 B. Marcote

With the low Earth orbit environment becoming increasingly populated with artificial satellites, rockets, and debris, it is important to understand the effects they have on radio astronomy. In this work, we undertake a multi-frequency,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-29 Dylan Grigg , Steven Tingay , Steve Prabu , Marcin Sokolowski , Balthasar Indermuehle

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation high-energy gamma-ray observatory. It will improve the sensitivity of current instruments up to an order of magnitude, while providing energy coverage for photons from 20 GeV to at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-18 Fabian Schüssler

We present a demonstration of near real-time spacecraft astrometry with the VLBA. We detect the X-band downlink signal from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Odyssey with the VLBA and transmit the data over the internet for correlation at the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 W. Max-Moerbeck , W. F. Brisken , J. D. Romney

We present a framework for detecting transient gamma-ray phenomena in a controlled environment by combining end-to-end simulations of the Fermi-LAT sky with self-supervised spatio-temporal deep learning. We generate a ten-year synthetic…

In the near future, the Expanded Very Large Array (EVLA) will allow surveys for maser sources with unprecedented sensitivity, spectral coverage and spectroscopic capabilities. In particular, comprehensive surveys for many maser species with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Karl M. Menten

New time-domain surveys, such as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), will observe millions of transient alerts each night, making standard approaches of visually identifying new and interesting transients…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-07 Daniel Muthukrishna , Kaisey S. Mandel , Michelle Lochner , Sara Webb , Gautham Narayan

Future surveys such as the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will observe an order of magnitude more astrophysical transient events than any previous survey before. With this deluge of photometric data,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-06 Tarek Allam , Jason D. McEwen