ThunderKAT：用于图像平面射电暂现源的 MeerKAT 大巡天项目
高能天体物理现象
2017-11-15 v1
摘要
ThunderKAT 是 MeerKAT 的图像平面暂现源计划。2010 年提出且至今未变的目标，是通过射电辐射（常结合其他波长的观测）发现、辨识并理解高能天体物理过程。通过对银道面同步辐射暂现源（跨越一系列致密吸积体及其他爆发现象）的全面互补巡天与监测，并探索河外同步辐射暂现源的不同族群（微类星体、超新星以及可能未知的暂现现象）——既来自直接巡天也来自共生观测——我们将革新对动态且爆发的暂现射电流天的理解。除执行我们自身的定向计划外，我们已与其他 MeerKAT 大巡天项目（LSPs）达成协议，也将搜索它们的数据中的暂现源。这种对其他巡天的共生使用在 2016 年仍是我们关键计划目标之一，意味着 MeerKAT LSPs 联合起来将产生迄今规模最大的 GHz 频段射电暂现源计划。
引用
@article{arxiv.1711.04132,
title = {ThunderKAT: The MeerKAT Large Survey Project for Image-Plane Radio Transients},
author = {R. Fender and P. A. Woudt and R. Armstrong and P. Groot and V. McBride and J. Miller-Jones and K. Mooley and B. Stappers and R. Wijers and M. Bietenholz and S. Blyth and M. Bottcher and D. Buckley and P. Charles and L. Chomiuk and D. Coppejans and S. Corbel and M. Coriat and F. Daigne and W. J. G. de Blok and H. Falcke and J. Girard and I. Heywood and A. Horesh and J. Horrell and P. Jonker and T. Joseph and A. Kamble and C. Knigge and E. Koerding and M. Kotze and C. Kouveliotou and C. Lynch and T. Maccarone and P. Meintjes and S. Migliari and T. Murphy and T. Nagayama and G. Nelemans and G. Nicholson and T. O'Brien and A. Oodendaal and N. Oozeer and J. Osborne and M. Perez-Torres and S. Ratcliffe and V. Ribeiro and E. Rol and A. Rushton and A. Scaife and M. Schurch and G. Sivakoff and T. Staley and D. Steeghs and I. Stewart and J. Swinbank and K. van der Heyden and A. van der Horst and B. van Soelen and S. Vergani and B. Warner and K. Wiersema},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.04132},
year = {2017}
}
备注
To be published in "MeerKAT Science: On the Pathway to the SKA". Proceedings of Science. Workshop held 25-27 May, 2016 Stellenbosch, South Africa