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We present optical spectroscopy secured at the 10m Gran Telescopio Canarias of the counterparts of 20 extragalactic gamma-ray sources detected by the Fermi satellite. The observations allow us to investigate the nature of these sources and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-27 Simona Paiano , Renato Falomo , Alberto Franceschini , Aldo Treves , Riccardo Scarpa

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 Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) is a fully-automated, wide-field survey aimed at a systematic exploration of the optical transient sky. The transient survey is performed using a new 8.1 square degree camera installed on the 48-inch…

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,…

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are extremely energetic pulses of millisecond duration and unknown origin. In order to understand the phenomenon that emits these pulses, targeted and untargeted searches have been performed for multi-wavelength…

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 present the results of a four-month campaign searching for low-frequency radio transients near the North Celestial Pole with the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR), as part of the Multifrequency Snapshot Sky Survey (MSSS). The data were…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-21 A. J. Stewart , R. P. Fender , J. W. Broderick , T. E. Hassall , T. Muñoz-Darias , A. Rowlinson , J. D. Swinbank , T. D. Staley , G. J. Molenaar , B. Scheers , T. L. Grobler , M. Pietka , G. Heald , J. P. McKean , M. E. Bell , A. Bonafede , R. P. Breton , D. Carbone , Y. Cendes , A. O. Clarke , S. Corbel , F. de Gasperin , J. Eislöffel , H. Falcke , C. Ferrari , J. -M. Grießmeier , M. J. Hardcastle , V. Heesen , J. W. T. Hessels , A. Horneffer , M. Iacobelli , P. Jonker , A. Karastergiou , G. Kokotanekov , V. I. Kondratiev , M. Kuniyoshi , C. J. Law , J. van Leeuwen , S. Markoff , J. C. A. Miller-Jones , D. Mulcahy , E. Orru , M. Pandey-Pommier , L. Pratley , E. Rol , H. J. A. Röttgering , A. M. M. Scaife , A. Shulevski , C. A. Sobey , B. W. Stappers , C. Tasse , A. J. van der Horst , S. van Velzen , R. J. van Weeren , R. A. M. J. Wijers , R. Wijnands , M. Wise , P. Zarka , A. Alexov , J. Anderson , A. Asgekar , I. M. Avruch , M. J. Bentum , G. Bernardi , P. Best , F. Breitling , M. Brüggen , H. R. Butcher , B. Ciardi , J. E. Conway , A. Corstanje , E. de Geus , A. Deller , S. Duscha , W. Frieswijk , M. A. Garrett , A. W. Gunst , M. P. van Haarlem , M. Hoeft , J. Hörandel , E. Juette , G. Kuper , M. Loose , P. Maat , R. McFadden , D. McKay-Bukowski , J. Moldon , H. Munk , M. J. Norden , H. Paas , A. G. Polatidis , D. Schwarz , J. Sluman , O. Smirnov , M. Steinmetz , S. Thoudam , M. C. Toribio , R. Vermeulen , C. Vocks , S. J. Wijnholds , O. Wucknitz , S. Yatawatta

We conduct a systematic search for astrophysical transients using data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). The data were taken from 2017 to 2022 in three frequency bands spanning 77 GHz to 277 GHz. In this paper we present a…

We present a 50 ks Chandra ACIS-I X-ray observation of the Bower et al. VLA archival field. The observations reach a limiting sensitivity of ~1E-4 counts/s, corresponding to a flux of a few times 1E-15 erg/s/cm^2 for the models we explore.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Steve Croft , John A. Tomsick , Geoffrey C. Bower

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

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

Using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) and Pulsar Spigot at 350MHz, we have surveyed the Northern Galactic Plane for pulsars and radio transients. This survey covers roughly 1000 square degrees of sky within 75 deg < l < 165 deg and |b| < 5.5…

Recent studies by B. Villarroel and colleagues have assembled and analyzed datasets of unidentified features measured from digital scans of photographic plates captured by the first-epoch Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS1) in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Wesley Andrés Watters , Laura Dominé , Sarah Little , Cameron Pratt , Kevin H. Knuth

We have performed targeted searches of known extragalactic transient events at millimetre wavelengths using nine seasons (2013--2021) of 98, 150, and 229\,GHz Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) observations that mapped ${\sim}40$ per cent of…

We imaged the error box of a gamma-ray burst of the short (0.5 s), hard type (GRB 000313), with the BOOTES-1 experiment in southern Spain, starting 4 min after the gamma-ray event, in the I-band. A bright optical transient (OT 000313) with…

The exploration of the time-variable astronomical sky at submm wavelengths is rapidly becoming more feasible with large sky surveys by Cosmic Microwave Background telescopes with tens of thousands of detectors. Observations with the Atacama…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-17 Mike Peel , Dave Clements , Tony Mroczkowski , Allen Foster

The Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) is systematically charting the optical transient and variable sky. A primary science driver of PTF is building a complete inventory of transients in the local Universe (distance less than 200 Mpc). Here,…

We present the first southern-hemisphere all-sky imager and radio-transient monitoring system implemented on two prototype stations of the low-frequency component of the Square Kilometre Array. Since its deployment the system has been used…

We are searching for hot, constant-color, offset optical flares in the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) data stream that are ${>}10''$ from any galaxy in public imaging data from the PanSTARRS survey. Here, we present the first discovery…

In the era of time-domain, multi-messenger astronomy, the detection of transient events on the high-energy electromagnetic sky has become more important than ever. Previous attempts to systematically search for onboard-untriggered events in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 F. Kunzweiler , B. Biltzinger , J. Greiner , J. M. Burgess