The VLBA Fast Radio Transient Experiment: Progress and Early Results

The VLBA Fast Radio Transient Experiment: Progress and Early Results

Motivated by recent discoveries of isolated, dispersed radio pulses of possible extragalactic origin, we are performing a commensal search for short-duration (ms) continuum radio pulses using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). The geographically separated antennæ of the VLBA make the system robust...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Wayth, Randall, Brisken, Walter, Deller, Adam, Majid, Walid, Thompson, David, Tingay, Steven, Wagstaff, Kiri
Other Authors: R E M Griffiths
Format: Conference Paper
Published: Cambridge University Press 2012
Subjects:
methods
data analysis
radio continuum
general
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/30903
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Summary:Motivated by recent discoveries of isolated, dispersed radio pulses of possible extragalactic origin, we are performing a commensal search for short-duration (ms) continuum radio pulses using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). The geographically separated antennæ of the VLBA make the system robust to local RFI and allow events to be verified and localised on the sky with milli-arcsec accuracy. We report sky coverage and detection limits from the experiment to date.

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