transient science with the allen telescope array
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Transient Science with the Allen Telescope Array. Geoff Bower Berkeley. Allen Telescope Array. Large N design 350 x 6.1m antennas Sensitivity of the VLA Continuous frequency coverage 0.5 to 11.2 GHz Wide field of view 3 degrees at 1 GHz Excellent survey instrument: 17x FOV of VLA - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Transient Science with the Allen Telescope Array
Geoff Bower
Berkeley
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Allen Telescope Array• Large N design
– 350 x 6.1m antennas– Sensitivity of the VLA
• Continuous frequency coverage– 0.5 to 11.2 GHz
• Wide field of view– 3 degrees at 1 GHz– Excellent survey instrument: 17x FOV of VLA
• Simultaneous observing with multiple backends– Correlator at 2 frequencies– 32 Phased array beams at 4 frequencies
• Joint project of UC Berkeley/SETI Inst.• Prototype for US SKA proposal
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ATA Current Status
42
206
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Transient Science with the ATA
• Targeted Monitoring– Exploits multiple beams– Can be done
simultaneously with other science
– Pulsars– Gamma-ray burst
afterglows– Black holes– Supernovae– Intraday variability– Your Favorite Object Here
• Blind Surveys – Exploit survey speed
– Orphan GRB afterglows– New Radio Supernovae– Tidally disrupted stars
around Massive BHs– Stellar radio emission– The “Twinkling” Radio Sky– Something New!
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Parameter Space is Wide Open
ATA24 Hours
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Radio Transient Source Counts
ATA-350 40 hours
SKA4 hours
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ATA Transient Surveys• FiGSS: Five GHz Sky Survey (ATA-42)
– 5 GHz– 1 mJy rms– 104 square degrees/6 months
• Deep Survey (ATA-350)– 5 GHz– 50 microJy rms– 20 square degrees/day
• All Sky Low Frequency Survey (ATA-350)– 700 MHz– 250 microJy rms– 104 square degrees/day
• Long Period Pulsar/Transient Survey (ATA-42)– Any frequency – 10 msec – 1000 sec– Targeted: Galactic Center, Globular Cluster, Andromeda
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VLA Archive Transient Survey
• 10 years
• 20 epochs
• 5 GHz
• 20 microJansky rms/epoch
• 80 sources– 20 suitable for transient study
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Transient?
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Technical & Scientific Issues
• Wide field imaging
• Automated imaging
• Multiwavelength follow-up & simultaneity
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Multiwavelength Source Detection
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