Active MWA Transients Projects
Project Title | Principle Investigator (Bold) and main | Student project? (Yes/No) | Start Date | End Date | Brief Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
MWA VCS triggering on gamma-ray bursts | Gemma Anderson | Yes | 2018 | Ongoing | MWA rapid-response triggering on Swift-detected GRBs using the VCS. |
MWA VCS triggering on gravitational wave-detected binary neutron star mergers | Gemma Anderson | No | 2023 | Early 2025 | MWA rapid-response triggering on binary neutron star and neutron star-black hole mergers detected by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA during the O4 observing run. |
Eclipsing Binary MSPs in the Image-Plane | Flora Petrou | Yes | 2023 | 2027 | Searching for and following up eclipsing binary millisecond pulsars detected in the Galactic Plane Monitor (G0080) data |
Searching for Stokes V transients in the GPM | Natasha Hurley-Walker | Curtin Honours | 2024 | 2024 | Reprocessing the Galactic Plane Monitor through a pipeline sensitive to Stokes V emission, and searching for interesting sources (including transients) on second to month timescales. |
GLEAM-X DR II Transient Search | Natasha Hurley-Walker | Will be proposed in next few months | 2024 | 2027 | Searching for transients in GLEAM-X DR II and beyond, will be part of Csanad’s PhD project (currently scoping out) |
Planned MWA Transients Publications
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Paper Title | Lead Author (Bold) and main co-authors | Student project? (Yes/No) | Planned submission date | Brief Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Searching for FRB-like signals from long GRBs | Fan Xu | Yes | End 2024 | Searching for prompt radio signals associated with long GRBs using MWA VCS rapid-response observations triggered on Swift-detected GRBs. |
PSRJ0031-57, a bursting pulsar detected in the image plane | Jared Moseley | Was Curtin Honours | June 2024 | VCS post-hoc follow-up on the pulsar we found in GLEAM-X DR II search |
A long-period radio transient in a binary orbit | Natasha Hurley-Walker | No | June 2024 | A new long-period radio transient found in GLEAM-X DR II |
Galactic Plane Monitor Survey Description & DR 1 | Natasha Hurley-Walker | No | July 2024 | Description of Galactic Plane Monitor G0080 data and release of images, catalogue etc. |