First Fast Transient Discoveries with realfast at the Very Large Array
Abstract
Radio interferometers have the ability to precisely localize and better characterize the properties of sources. This ability is having a powerful impact on the study of transients such as Fast Radio Bursts, where a few milliseconds of data is enough to pinpoint a source at cosmological distances. I will describe realfast, a fast transient search system and dedicated compute cluster integrated with the Jansky Very Large Array. realfast searches "commensally" on a fast-sampled copy of normal observations, which gives it access to thousands of hours per year with milliJansky sensitivity on millisecond timescales. I will present discoveries made in the first six months of realfast observations.
- Publication:
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American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #235
- Pub Date:
- January 2020
- Bibcode:
- 2020AAS...23543902L