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This paper presents a search for radio transients at a frequency of 73.8 MHz (4 m wavelength) using the all-sky imaging capabilities of the Long Wavelength Demonstrator Array (LWDA). The LWDA was a 16-dipole phased array telescope, located…

The sensitivity and field of view of the MeerKAT radio telescope provides excellent opportunities for commensal transient searches. We carry out a commensal transient search in supernova and short gamma-ray burst fields using methodologies…

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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…

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Interferometric localisation of transients and pulsars via tied-array beam processing is challenging and can be limited by the native spatial resolution achievable by the instrument, especially at low frequencies and for compact…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 Bradley W. Meyers , Arash Bahramian

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,…

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We present a methodology for automated real-time analysis of a radio image data stream with the goal to find transient sources. Contrary to previous works, the transients we are interested in occur on a time-scale where dispersion starts to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-09 David Ruhe , Mark Kuiack , Antonia Rowlinson , Ralph Wijers , Patrick Forré

A new high time resolution observing mode for the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is described, enabling full polarimetric observations with up to 30.72 MHz of bandwidth and a time resolution of ~0.8 $\mu$s. This mode makes use of a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 S. J. McSweeney , S. M. Ord , N. D. R. Bhat , B. W. Meyers , S. E. Tremblay , J. Jones , B. Crosse , K. R. Smith

Next-generation radio arrays, including the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and its pathfinders, will open up new avenues for exciting transient science at radio wavelengths. Their innovative designs, comprising a large number of small…

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Radio searches for single pulses provide the opportunity to discover one-off events, fast transients and some pulsars that might otherwise be missed by conventional periodicity searches. The MeerTRAP real-time search pipeline operates…

Pulsars have proven instrumental in exploring a wide variety of physics. Pulsars at low radio frequencies is crucial to further our understanding of spectral properties and emission mechanisms.The Murchison Widefield Array Voltage Capture…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-11 S. Sett , N. D. R. Bhat , M. Sokolowski , E. Lenc

Recent investigations reveal an important new class of transient radio phenomena that occur on sub-millisecond timescales. Often transient surveys' data volumes are too large to archive exhaustively. Instead, an on-line automatic system…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 David R. Thompson , Kiri L. Wagstaff , Walter Brisken , Adam T. Deller , Walid A. Majid , Steven J. Tingay , Randall B. Wayth

We have extended our previous work to use the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) as a non-coherent passive radar system in the FM frequency band, using terrestrial FM transmitters to illuminate objects in Low Earth Orbit LEO) and the MWA as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-16 Steve Prabu , Paul J Hancock , Zhang Xiang , Steven J Tingay

Recently, low frequency, broadband radio emission has been observed accompanying bright meteors by the Long Wavelength Array (LWA). The broadband spectra between 20 and 60 MHz were captured for several events, while the spectral index…

We demonstrate a new technique for detecting radio transients based on interferometric closure quantities. The technique uses the bispectrum, the product of visibilities around a closed-loop of baselines of an interferometer. The bispectrum…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Casey J. Law , Geoffrey C. Bower

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…