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2022-03-08 11:54:00
Radio transients in the era of the SKA
Transients4
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.
Lauren Rhodes, Manisha Caleb, Lucy Oswald, Jakob Van den Eijnden
Fri. 09:00-10:30 / Fri. 14:30-16:00
09:00-09:30 Lina Levin Preston: Invited talk: Pulsar and fast transient capabilities with the SKA
09:30-09:43 Patrick O'Neill: Improved timing of transitional milli-second pulsar PSR J1023+0038, and its link to accretion onto compact objects.
09:43-09:56 Parul Janagal: Revisiting the subpulse drifting phenomenon in PSR J1822-2256
09:56-10:09 Fabian Jankowski: Implications from the first MeerTRAP Fast Radio Burst sample
10:09-10:22 Anastasia Fialkov: What can we learn from high redshift FRBs
14:30-15:00 Deanne Coppejans: Radio studies of the enigmatic fast blue optical transients [invited]
15:00-15:13 Adelle Goodwin: Radio observations of tidal disruption events
15:13-15:26 Alex Andersson: Discovering transients with citizen scientists using MeerKAT
15:26-15:39 Francesco Carotenuto: Decelerating jets from black hole X-ray binaries
15:39-15:54 David Williams: Resolving the radio jets of RS Ophiuchi at sub-arcsecond resolution with e-MERLIN