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We present a search for transient radio sources on time-scales of seconds to hours at 144 MHz using the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS). This search is conducted by examining short time-scale images derived from the LoTSS data. To allow…

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The LISA Pathfinder (LPF) mission succeeded outstandingly in demonstrating key technological aspects of future space-borne gravitational-wave detectors, such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Specifically, LPF demonstrated…

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Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) is emitted from various sources, terrestrial or orbital, and create a nuisance for ground-based 21cm experiments. In particular, single-dish 21cm intensity mapping experiments will be highly susceptible to…

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…

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The exponential growth of data from modern radio telescopes presents a significant challenge to traditional single-pulse search algorithms, which are computationally intensive and prone to high false-positive rates due to Radio Frequency…

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Exploration of the time-domain radio sky has huge potential for advancing our knowledge of the dynamic universe. Past surveys have discovered large numbers of pulsars, rotating radio transients and other transient radio phenomena; however,…

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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

We present the first survey of radio frequency interference (RFI) at the future site of the low frequency Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO), that both temporally and spatially resolves the RFI.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Steven Tingay , Marcin Sokolowski , Randall Wayth , Daniel Ung

Although several existing and upcoming telescopes have imaging as their primary mode, they also have a sensitive phased-array mode with a multiple-beam forming capability enabling high time resolution studies of several types of objects,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-29 Jayanth Chennamangalam , Yogesh Maan , Avinash A. Deshpande

We characterize the low frequency radio-frequency interference (RFI) environment at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO), the location selected for the low-frequency component of the Square Kilometre Array. Data were collected…

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The Ge:Ga detectors used in the PACS spectrograph onboard the Herschel space telescope react to changes of the incident flux with a certain delay. This generates transient effects on the resulting signal which can be important and last for…

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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 introduce a method for detecting astrophysical transients evolving on timescales of milliseconds to minutes using cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey telescopes. While previous transient searches in CMB data operate in map space,…

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

Searching for fleeting radio transients like fast radio bursts (FRBs) with wide-field radio telescopes has become a common challenge in data-intensive science. Conventional algorithms normally cost enormous time to seek candidates by…

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Traditionally, fast radio transient searches are conducted on dedispersed time series using thresholding techniques based on the statistical properties of the data. However, peaks in dedispersed time series do not directly provide…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-25 Sergio Belmonte Diaz , Rene P. Breton , Zafiirah Hosenie , Ben W. Stappers

We relate the underlying properties of a population of fast radio-emitting transient events to its expected detection rate in a survey of finite sensitivity. The distribution of the distances of the detected events is determined in terms of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Jean-Pierre Macquart

Real-time analysis and classification of observational data collected within synoptic sky surveys is a huge challenge due to constant growth of data volumes. Machine learning techniques are often applied in order to perform this task…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-26 Jakub Klencki , Łukasz Wyrzykowski , Zuzanna Kostrzewa-Rutkowska , Andrzej Udalski

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 re-analysis of archival data from the Very Large Array for a sample of ten long duration radio transients reported by Bower and others. These transients have an implied all-sky rate that would make them the most common radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 D. A. Frail , S. R. Kulkarni , E. O. Ofek , G. C. Bower , E. Nakar