Parallel sessions

This session is dedicated to the study of astronomical transients using radio facilities. Radio transients encompass a broad range of events on all mass scales from stellar flares to tidal disruption events. These systems provide a laboratory to study the physics of relativistic particle acceleration, relativistic jets/ outflows, and compact formation, among others, in some of the most extreme environments in the Universe. As a result, these transients can provide a window into some of the most fundamental processes in high-energy astrophysics. Construction of the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) has begun, building on the work of SKA precursor interferometers which have already enabled groundbreaking research into both coherent (e.g. pulsars/FRBs) and incoherent (e.g. image plane) transient detection. With this session, we shall provide a platform for the community to present on the diverse range of science that is currently being undertaken and will be performed with the SKA: be this pulsar timing, multi-messenger follow up, or discovering new transients via commensal searches. Such a session would be of further importance to the UK science community given that the SKA headquarters are based in Manchester, UK. Despite these exciting developments, transient sessions in recent years have often been dominated by optical observations, leading to a potential dearth of communications and discussion among the radio community. Therefore, we believe it to be both timely and relevant to discuss these issues in a session at NAM in 2022.