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Tara: Very strict triggering criteria. 3 competing ATCA proposals. Will also be doing VLBI program led by Adam Deller
Gemma's talk:
MWA GW follow-up strategies: GW_MWA_GAnderson.pdf
Jun's talk:
Targeting coherent emission from GWs with MWA talk: MWA_transients_meeting_Jun_Tian.pdf
John comments:
- Written software that automatically keeps the Sun in the null. Pretty much instantaneous.
- Single dipole: size of field. Can't really see below 40 degrees. Our chosen metric may be overestimating the size of the field of view but it is close.
- Always more sensitive to the Zenith regardless of the number of dipoles so stick with Zenith pointings. Full array pointed at the horizon is not much better than a Zenith-pointed observation.
- Subarraying (fly's eye) - Not like ASKAP with single dishes. Groups of 64 or 32 tiles with different directions but throwing away baselines so strongly losing in sensitivity.
- Point XX beams in one point in the sky and YY to another part of the sky - double collecting area, we loose a smaller amount of sensitivity.
- Go to an even lower frequency but still a much wider field of view but get extra time delay. Daytime observations at lower freq, the quiet Sun gets weaker and weaker - around 80 MHz.
- Switch pointing every 8 seconds - get some of the dispersed frequency/signals. May always get some of the signal, whether the top or bottom of band.
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