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Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are extragalactic millisecond-duration radio transients whose nature remains unknown. The advent of numerous facilities conducting dedicated FRB searches has dramatically revolutionised the field: hundreds of new…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-03 Inés Pastor-Marazuela

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), are millisecond radio signals that exhibit dispersion larger than what the Galactic electron density can account for. We have conducted a 1446 hour survey for Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) at 145~MHz, covering a total…

AST/RO, a 1.7 m diameter telescope for astronomy and aeronomy studies at wavelengths between 200 and 2000 microns, was installed at the South Pole during the 1994-1995 Austral summer. The telescope operates continuously through the Austral…

Current and future continuum surveys being undertaken by the new generation of radio telescopes are now poised to address many important science questions, ranging from the earliest galaxies, to the physics of nearby AGN, as well as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-25 Jeremy J. Harwood , Raffaella Morganti

The detection of transient phenomena such as Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), stellar flares, novae, and supernovae, alongside novel cosmic messengers like high-energy neutrinos and gravitational waves, has transformed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-10 Fabian Schüssler , B. Cornejo , M. Costa , I. Jaroschewski , W. Kiendrébéogo

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope(FAST) was launched on September 25,2016.From early 2017,we began to use the FAST wideband receiver,which was designed,constructed and installed on the FAST in Guizhou,China.The front…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-27 Xin-xin Zhang , Ran Duan , Xin-ying Yu , Di Li , Ning-yu Tang , Dao-chong Qing

Since January 2017, the Commensal Real-time ASKAP Fast Transients survey (CRAFT) has been utilising commissioning antennas of the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) to survey for fast radio bursts (FRBs) in fly's eye mode. This is the first…

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), the largest single dish radio telescope in the world, has implemented an innovative technology for its huge reflector, which changes the shape of the primary reflector from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Jian-Ling Li , Bo Peng , Cheng-Jin Jin , Hui Li , Richard G. Strom , Bin Liu , Xiao-Ming Chai , Li-Jia Liu

The Antarctic Submillimeter Telescope and Remote Observatory (AST/RO) is a 1.7-meter diameter offset Gregorian instrument located at the NSF Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. This site is exceptionally dry and cold, providing opportunities…

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) commensal surveys aim to scan the sky to detect technosignatures from extraterrestrial life. A major challenge in SETI is the effective mitigation of radio frequency interference (RFI), a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Li-Li Zhao , Xiao-Hang Luan , Xin Chao , Yu-Chen Wang , Jian-Kang Li , Zhen-Zhao Tao , Tong-Jie Zhang , Hong-Feng Wang , Dan Werthimer

In this study, we present a transformer-based multi-task model for Fast Radio Burst (FRB) detection, signal segmentation, and parameter estimation directly from time-frequency data, without requiring computationally expensive de-dispersion…

We present the first results from the V-FASTR experiment, a commensal search for fast transient radio bursts using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). V-FASTR is unique in that the widely spaced VLBA antennas provide a discriminant against…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Randall B. Wayth , Steven J. Tingay , Adam T. Deller , Walter F. Brisken , David R. Thompson , Kiri L. Wagstaff , Walid A. Majid

We present an observational approach for the independent detection of the early optical emission of long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). For this purpose, we explore the potential of the Large Array Survey Telescope (LAST). This array of small…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-25 Iftach Sadeh

The 10-antenna prototype of the multifrequency Siberian radioheliograph is described. The prototype consists of four parts: antennas with broadband front-ends, analog back-ends, digital receivers and a correlator. The prototype antennas are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-23 S. V. Lesovoi , A. T. Altyntsev , E. F. Ivanov , A. V. Gubin

We present radio transient search algorithms, results, and statistics from the ongoing Arecibo Pulsar ALFA (PALFA) Survey of the Galactic plane. We have discovered seven objects by detecting isolated dispersed pulses and one of the new…

Time domain radio astronomy observing campaigns frequently generate large volumes of data. Our goal is to develop automated methods that can identify events of interest buried within the larger data stream. The V-FASTR fast transient system…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-29 Kiri L. Wagstaff , Benyang Tang , David R. Thompson , Shakeh Khudikyan , Jane Wyngaard , Adam T. Deller , Divya Palaniswamy , Steven J. Tingay , Randall B. Wayth

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) emit broad band radio wave radiation that may, in rare cases, encode atomic hydrogen (HI) absorption signals produced as they traverse the interstellar medium of their host galaxies. Combining such signals with high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-12 Hugh Roxburgh , Marcin Glowacki , Apurba Bera , Clancy James

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extremely bright, millisecond duration cosmic transients of unknown origin. The growing number of wide-field and high-time-resolution radio surveys, particularly with next-generation facilities such as the SKA…

Heterodyne receivers register the sky signal on either a circular polarization basis (where it is split into left-hand and right-hand circular polarization) or a linear polarization basis (where it is split into horizontal and vertical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-09 Ivan Marti-Vidal , Alan Roy , John Conway , Anton J. Zensus

We describe GBTrans, a real-time search system designed to find fast radio bursts (FRBs) using the 20-m radio telescope at the Green Bank Observatory. The telescope has been part of the Skynet educational program since 2015. We give details…