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We provide an overview of the robotic Super-LOTIS (Livermore Optical Transient Imaging System) telescope and present results from gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglow observations using Super-LOTIS and other Steward Observatory telescopes. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 G. G. Williams , P. A. Milne , H. S. Park , S. D. Barthelmy , D. H. Hartmann , A. Updike , K. Hurley

Detecting fast radio bursts (FRBs) requires software pipelines to search for dispersed single pulses of emission in radio telescope data. In order to enable an unbiased estimation of the underlying FRB population, it is important to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Hao Qiu , Evan F. Keane , Keith W. Bannister , Clancy W. James , Ryan M. Shannon

Since it is not possible to predict when a Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) will occur or when Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) flaring activity starts, follow-up/monitoring ground telescopes must be located as uniformly as possible all over the world in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 T. Sakamoto , C. A. Wallace , D. Donato , N. Gehrels , T. Okajima , T. N. Ukwatta

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are short lived ($\sim$ msec), energetic transients (having a peak flux density of $\sim$ Jy) with no known prompt emission in other energy bands. We present results of a search for prompt X-ray emissions from 41…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-21 Akash Anumarlapudi , Varun Bhalerao , Shriharsh P. Tendulkar , Arvind Balasubramanian

Having achieved 'first-light' right before the opening ceremony on September 25, 2016, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) is being busily commissioned. Its innovative design requires ~1000 points to be measured…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-09 Di Li , Pei Wang , Lei Qian , Marko Krco , Alex Dunning , Peng Jiang , Youling Yue , Chenjin Jin , Yan Zhu , Zhichen Pan , Rendong Nan

Advanced wavefront sensors (WFS) are essential for enabling new science cases for telescopes that utilize adaptive optics (AO) systems. While complex field WFS -- those that estimate the electric field phase and amplitude through…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-21 D. Angelica Huerta , Justin R. Crepp , Caleb G. Abbott , Brian Joseph

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are bright radio transients with millisecond duration at cosmological distances. Since compact dark matter/objects (COs) could act as lenses and cause split of this kind of very short duration signals,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-11 Kai Liao , S. -B. Zhang , Zhengxiang Li , He Gao

The Asteroid Terrestrial impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) system consists of two 0.5m Schmidt telescopes with cameras covering 29 square degrees at plate scale of 1.86 arcsec per pixel. Working in tandem, the telescopes routinely survey the…

A new generation of observational science instruments is dramatically increasing collected data volumes in a range of fields. These instruments include the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), terrestrial…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-24 David R. Thompson , Sarah Burke-Spolaor , Adam T. Deller , Walid A. Majid , Divya Palaniswamy , Steven J. Tingay , Kiri L. Wagstaff , Randall B. Wayth

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) which are well localised ($<$1") to their host galaxy are tools for studying cosmology and the intergalactic medium. Furthermore, high-time resolution datasets of their polarisation properties can enable testing of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-11 M. Glowacki , T. Dial , A. Bera , A. T. Deller , K. Gourdji , A. Jaini , D. Scott , Y. Wang , K. Desnos , A. C. Gordon , R. L. Davies , R. M. Shannon

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) probe baryons permeating the cosmic web through their dispersion measures (DMs), which encode the integrated electron density along cosmological sightlines. Using 3,455 unique FRB sources from CHIME/FRB with $\sim…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are intense bursts of radio emission with durations of milliseconds. Although researchers have found them happening frequently all over the sky, they are still in the dark to understand what causes the phenomena…

Localisation of fast radio bursts (FRBs) to arcsecond and sub-arcsecond precision maximizes their potential as cosmological probes. To that end, FRB detection instruments are deploying triggered complex-voltage capture systems to localize…

The transient optical sky has remained largely unexplored on very short timescales. While there have been some experiments searching for optical transients from minutes to years, none have had the capability to distinguish millisecond Fast…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-08 Guillem Megias Homar , Joshua E. Meyers , Steven M. Kahn

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…

The forthcoming launch of the Ultraviolet Transient Astronomy Satellite (ULTRASAT) will transform our understanding of the transient ultraviolet sky by increasing our ability to identify transients due to its unprecedented 204 deg2 field of…

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…

The rapid accumulation of observed Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) originating from cosmological distances makes it likely that some will be strongly lensed by intervening matter along the line of sight. Detection of lensed FRB repeaters, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-09 Tal Adi , Ely D. Kovetz

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are an enigmatic class of extragalactic transients emitting Jy-level radio bursts in the GHz band, lasting for only a few ms. So far, some objects are known to repeat while several others are not, likely indicating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-10 J. Hoang , M. Will , S. Inoue , J. A. Barrio , J. Cortina , M. López , B. Marcote , L. A. Tejedor