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The VLBA Fast Radio Transient Experiment: Progress and Early Results

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2012

Randall B. Wayth ,
Walter F. Brisken ,
Adam T. Deller ,
Walid A. Majid ,
David R. Thompson ,
Steven J. Tingay  and
Kiri L. Wagstaff
Randall B. Wayth
Affiliation:
International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, Curtin University, WA 6845, Australia email: r.wayth@curtin.edu.au
Walter F. Brisken
Affiliation:
NRAO, PO Box O, Socorro, NM 87801, USA
Adam T. Deller
Affiliation:
ASTRON, P.O. Box 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, The Netherlands
Walid A. Majid
Affiliation:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
David R. Thompson
Affiliation:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
Steven J. Tingay
Affiliation:
International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, Curtin University, WA 6845, Australia email: r.wayth@curtin.edu.au
Kiri L. Wagstaff
Affiliation:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
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Abstract

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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.

Keywords

radio continuum: general – methods: data analysis
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 7 , Symposium S285: New Horizons in Time-Domain Astronomy , September 2011 , pp. 423 - 424
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2012

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