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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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
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/30903
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author Wayth, Randall
Brisken, Walter
Deller, Adam
Majid, Walid
Thompson, David
Tingay, Steven
Wagstaff, Kiri
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Wayth, Randall
Brisken, Walter
Deller, Adam
Majid, Walid
Thompson, David
Tingay, Steven
Wagstaff, Kiri
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description 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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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-309032023-02-07T08:01:19Z The VLBA Fast Radio Transient Experiment: Progress and Early Results Wayth, Randall Brisken, Walter Deller, Adam Majid, Walid Thompson, David Tingay, Steven Wagstaff, Kiri R E M Griffiths R J Hanisch R Seaman methods data analysis radio continuum general 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. 2012 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/30903 10.1017/S1743921312001299 Cambridge University Press unknown
spellingShingle methods
data analysis
radio continuum
general
Wayth, Randall
Brisken, Walter
Deller, Adam
Majid, Walid
Thompson, David
Tingay, Steven
Wagstaff, Kiri
The VLBA Fast Radio Transient Experiment: Progress and Early Results
title The VLBA Fast Radio Transient Experiment: Progress and Early Results
title_full The VLBA Fast Radio Transient Experiment: Progress and Early Results
title_fullStr The VLBA Fast Radio Transient Experiment: Progress and Early Results
title_full_unstemmed The VLBA Fast Radio Transient Experiment: Progress and Early Results
title_short The VLBA Fast Radio Transient Experiment: Progress and Early Results
title_sort vlba fast radio transient experiment: progress and early results
topic methods
data analysis
radio continuum
general
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/30903