Active MWA Transients Projects and Papers

Active MWA Transients Projects

 

Project Title

Principle Investigator (Bold) and main
co-investigators

Student project? (Yes/No)

Start Date

End Date

Brief Description

Project Title

Principle Investigator (Bold) and main
co-investigators

Student project? (Yes/No)

Start Date

End Date

Brief Description

MWA VCS triggering on gamma-ray bursts

Gemma Anderson
Fan Xu
Jun Tian

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
Jun Tian

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
Natasha Hurley-Walker
Sam McSweeney

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

Yong Low
Natasha Hurley-Walker
Sam McSweeney
Amber Tilley

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

Csanad Horvath
Natasha Hurley-Walker
Sam McSweeney

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

 

Paper Title

Lead Author (Bold) and main co-authors

Student project? (Yes/No)

Planned submission date

Brief Description

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
Jun Tian
Gemma Anderson

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
Sam McSweeney
Natasha Hurley-Walker
Garvit Grover
Csanad Horvath
(maybe more)

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
+many

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
+many

No

July 2024

Description of Galactic Plane Monitor G0080 data and release of images, catalogue etc.