MWA Transients Collaboration

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Last updated: Feb 15, 2024 by Gemma Elizabeth Anderson
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Active MWA Transient Projects:

If you have an active MWA project relating to Transient Science and/or a planned publication, please list it on the following webpage and specifically indicate if it is a student project: Active Transient Projects and Publications

This webpage aims to communicate the current projects being undertaken by each member and to promote collaboration. 

Members:

This is not an official membership list, just a list of people you might want to contact who are actively interested in MWA Transient work.

Please also include your main MWA transient interests.

Gemma Elizabeth Anderson (Lead) 

  • MWA rapid-response (automated triggering) on high energy (GRBs, flare stars) and multi-messenger (GWs, FRBs, neutrinos) transients using the standard corrector and VCS.
  • Stokes V detections of flare stars.
  • Blind survey transient detections in both the image-plane and VCS data.
  • Ultra-long period transients.

Paul Hancock 

Andrew Williams

Andrew John Zic

Christene Lynch

  • MWA rapid-response (automated triggering) on high energy triggers from flare stars using the standard corrector and VCS.
  • Polarised detections (linear and circular) of flare stars.
  • Synergies with imaging surveys

David Kaplan (Unlicensed)

Jaiverdhan Chauhan (Unlicensed)

Jun Tian

Steve Croft (Unlicensed)

Tao AN

  • MWA rapid-response (automated triggering) on high energy (GRBs, flare stars) and multi-messenger (GWs, FRBs, neutrinos) transients using the standard corrector and VCS.
  • Stokes V detections of flaring stars and star-(exo)planet interactions.
  • Blind survey transient detections in both the image-plane and VCS data. 

Prashanth Mohan (Unlicensed) 

Bryan Gaensler

  • Spectrally inverted transients
  • Late-time (>>1 year) transients
  • FRBs and associated persistent radio sources
  • Coordination with VLASS
  • Polarised transients

Natasha Hurley-Walker

  • Ultra-long period transients
  • Synergies with imaging surveys
  • Spectral variability of peaked spectrum sources

Xiang Zhang

  • Polarised transients (linear and circular), e.g. blazars, magnetars, flare stars
  • Ultra-long period transients
  • Near-Earth transients, e.g. meteors, satellites and space debris

Zhijun Xu

  • MWA rapid-response (automated triggering) on multi-messenger (GWs, FRBs, neutrinos) transients using the standard corrector and VCS.
  • Blind survey transient detections in both the image-plane and VCS data. 

Samuel James McSweeney

  • Pulsars: Polarisation and single-pulse studies using MWA VCS
  • VCS processing software
  • FRBs
  • Ultra-long period transients

Collaboration Policy:

Our collaboration policy document can be found at /wiki/spaces/MP/pages/24970187.

For the policy surrounding the interruptibility and priorisation of triggered MWA observation on external transient events using the MWA rapid-response capability, please see point 16 in the MWA Time Allocation Policy. 

Meetings:

We hold monthly telecon meetings usually at 00:00 UT on the second Thursday of the month. However, this time is variable and depends on topics and availability across time zones.

The minutes from previous meetings are available at Transients Meeting Minutes

Email:

MWA Transients email list transients@lists.mwatelescope.org

See this link in order to join the /wiki/spaces/MP/pages/24972057.