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From gamma-ray to radio: Multi-wavelength follow-up in the first five minutes
In this short talk I cover some research highlights from the 4 Pi Sky project, including recent successes in fast radio follow-up and exploratory work on the potential of radio observations for transient classification. Finally I introduce our work on making the VOEvent standard more accessible to the astronomical community, with the long-term goal of enabling more optimal automated follow-up strategies.
Scientific software engineer with a strong maths background. Experienced in C++, Python, and SQL.
In this short talk I cover some research highlights from the 4 Pi Sky project, including recent successes in fast radio follow-up and exploratory work on the potential of radio observations for transient classification. Finally I introduce our work on making the VOEvent standard more accessible to the astronomical community, with the long-term goal of enabling more optimal automated follow-up strategies.
From gamma-ray to radio: Multi-wavelength follow-up in the first five minutes
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From gamma-ray to radio
Multi-wavelength follow-up within the
first five minutes
Tim Staley,
Rob Fender, Gemma Anderson, et al
RAS LT2 Meeting, Burlington House, Nov 2014
WWW: 4pisky.org , timstaley.co.uk
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Fast Radio Follow-up Multi-λ classification Automating ‘transient triage’
Aims of this talk
Highlight recent work:
Fast radio follow-up
Transient classification
Talk about transient screening and
prioritisation, and how to start
implementing it
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Fast Radio Follow-up Multi-λ classification Automating ‘transient triage’
Outline
Fast Radio Follow-up
Multi-λ classification
Automating ‘transient triage’
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Fast Radio Follow-up Multi-λ classification Automating ‘transient triage’
ALARRM
AMI-LA Rapid Response Mode
Staley 2013, http://ukads.nottingham.ac.uk/abs/2013MNRAS.428.3114S
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Fast Radio Follow-up Multi-λ classification Automating ‘transient triage’
GRB140327A
Anderson 2014, http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014MNRAS.440.2059A
van der Horst 2014, http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014MNRAS.444.3151V
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Fast Radio Follow-up Multi-λ classification Automating ‘transient triage’
DG CVn M-dwarf superflare
Fender 2014, http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014arXiv1410.1545F
Osten et al (in prep)
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Fast Radio Follow-up Multi-λ classification Automating ‘transient triage’
Outline
Fast Radio Follow-up
Multi-λ classification
Automating ‘transient triage’
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Fast Radio Follow-up Multi-λ classification Automating ‘transient triage’
Radio timescales
Weak classification based on rise rate?
Pietka 2014, http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014arXiv1411.1067P
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Fast Radio Follow-up Multi-λ classification Automating ‘transient triage’
Radio-optical flux ratio
Stewart, Munoz-Darias (in prep)
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Fast Radio Follow-up Multi-λ classification Automating ‘transient triage’
Outline
Fast Radio Follow-up
Multi-λ classification
Automating ‘transient triage’
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Fast Radio Follow-up Multi-λ classification Automating ‘transient triage’
Transient triage
Want to make optimal use of both
small and large facilities
Perform crude classification and target
prioritisation with small facilities first
Has to be fast
Has to be automated
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Fast Radio Follow-up Multi-λ classification Automating ‘transient triage’
Automating the spread of
information
VOEvent provides a decentralised,
machine-readable publication model.
e.g. Swinbank 2013, http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013MNRAS.428.3114S
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Fast Radio Follow-up Multi-λ classification Automating ‘transient triage’
Let’s make this work
We can provide the tools and
infrastructure
Running an open VOEvent server at
voevent.4pisky.org
NASA-GCN
DESAlerts (soon)
OGLE / GAIA (possibly)
A minimum working example to get
you started:
github.com/timstaley/fourpiskytools
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Fast Radio Follow-up Multi-λ classification Automating ‘transient triage’
Summary
There are rapidly evolving radio-band
transients, too
Radio information could be a powerful
aid to classification
We can help you get started with
VOEvents
More info: 4pisky.org
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