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The Galactic Center (GC) presents one of the highest stellar densities in our Galaxy, making its surroundings an environment potentially rich in radio transients, such as pulsars and different kinds of flaring activity. In this paper, we…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-05 Alejandro Mus , Ivan Marti-Vidal , Maciek Wielgus , Georgina Stroud

We present the results of a 5 GHz survey with the Very Large Array, designed to search for short-lived (<1 day) transients and to characterize the variability of radio sources at milli-Jansky levels. A total sky area of 2.66 deg^2, spread…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 E. O. Ofek , D. A. Frail , B. Breslauer , S. R. Kulkarni , P. Chandra , A. Gal-Yam , M. M. Kasliwal , N. Gehrels

Transient astronomical sources are typically powered by compact objects and usually signify highly explosive or dynamic events. While radio astronomy has an impressive record of obtaining high time resolution observations, usually it is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. D. Hyman , T. J. W. Lazio , N. E. Kassim , P. S. Ray , C. B. Markwardt , F. Yusef-Zadeh

The radio sky is poorly sampled for rapidly varying transients because of the narrow field-of-view of most imaging radio telescopes at cm and shorter wavelengths. The emergence of sensitive long wavelength observations with intrinsically…

We present a search for radio transients in the field of the bright radio source 3C 286 using archival observations from the Very Large Array. These observations span 23 years and include 1852 epochs at 1.4 GHz in the C and D…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Geoffrey C. Bower , Destry Saul

We report on a search for radio transients at 340 MHz with the Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) Low band Ionospheric and Transient Experiment (VLITE). Between 2015 July 29 and 2015 September 27, operating in commensal mode, VLITE imaged…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-23 E. Polisensky , W. M. Lane , S. D. Hyman , N. E. Kassim , S. Giacintucci , T. E. Clarke , W. D. Cotton , E. Cleland , D. A. Frail

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…

Using JVLA data obtained from high-resolution observations at 5.5 GHz at multiple epochs in 2014 and 2019, we have detected a population of radio variables and transients in the radio bright zone at the Galactic center. With observations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-06 Jun-Hui Zhao , Mark R. Morris , W. M. Goss

The impending era of wide-field radio surveys has the potential to revolutionize our understanding of astrophysical transients. Here we evaluate the prospects of a wide range of planned and hypothetical radio surveys using the properties…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-06 Brian D. Metzger , Peter K. G. Williams , Edo Berger

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

We report the results of a low frequency radio variability and slow transient search using archival observations from the Very Long Array. We selected six 325 MHz radio observations from the spring of 2006, each centered on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 T. R. Jaeger , S. D. Hyman , N. E. Kassim , T. J. W. Lazio

Recent works have discovered two fast ($\approx 10$ ks) extragalactic X-ray transients in the Chandra Deep Field-South (CDF-S XT1 and XT2). These findings suggest that a large population of similar extragalactic transients might exist in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-19 Guang Yang , W. N. Brandt , S. F. Zhu , F. E. Bauer , B. Luo , Y. Q. Xue , X. C. Zheng

A new generation of radio telescopes with excellent sensitivity, instantaneous {\it uv} coverage, and large fields of view, are providing unprecedented opportunities for performing commensal transient searches. Here we present such a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-18 S. I. Chastain , A. J. van der Horst , A. Rowlinson , L. Rhodes , A. Andersson , R. Diretse , R. P. Fender , P. A. Woudt

[ABRIDGED] We report the results of a 944-epoch survey for transient sources with archival data from the Very Large Array spanning 22 years with a typical epoch separation of 7 days. Observations were obtained at 5 or 8.4 GHz for a single…

The observation of Very High Energy gamma rays (VHE, E > 100 GeV) led us to the identification of extremely energetic processes and particle acceleration sites both within our Galaxy and beyond. We expect that VHE facilities, like CTA, will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 G. La Mura , G. Chiaro , R. Conceiçao , A. De Angelis , M. Pimenta , B. Tomé

A transient (LPA J0108+13) with repeated bursts was detected on the Large Phased Array (LPA) radio telescope at a central frequency of 110.4 MHz in the direction of the radio galaxy 3C 33. The flux density of bursts ranges from tens to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-21 A. M. Anpilogov , S. A. Tyul'bashev

The high stellar density in the central parsecs around the Galactic Centre makes it a seemingly favourable environment for finding relativistic binary pulsars. These include pulsars orbiting other neutron stars, stellar-mass black holes or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-25 R. P. Eatough , P. Torne , G. Desvignes , M. Kramer , R. Karuppusamy , B. Klein , L. G. Spitler , K. J. Lee , D. J. Champion , K. Liu , R. S. Wharton , L. Rezzolla , H. Falcke

Radio wavelengths offer a unique window into high-energy astrophysical phenomena that may be obscured or too rapidly evolving to be captured at other wavelengths. Leveraging data from the Very Large Array Sky Survey, we perform a systematic…

We report on the first millisecond timescale radio interferometric search for the new class of transient known as fast radio bursts (FRBs). We used the Very Large Array (VLA) for a 166-hour, millisecond imaging campaign to detect and…

We report on the methodology and first results from the Deep Lens Survey transient search. We utilize image subtraction on survey data to yield all sources of optical variability down to 24th magnitude. Images are analyzed immediately after…

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