The commensal real-time ASKAP fast-transients (CRAFT) survey
- Macquart, Jean-Pierre
- Bailes, M.
- Bhat, N. D. R.
- Bower, G. C.
- Bunton, J. D.
- Chatterjee, S.
- Colegate, T.
- Cordes, J. M.
- D'Addario, L.
- Deller, A.
- Dodson, R.
- Fender, R.
- Haines, K.
- Halll, P.
- Harris, C.
- Hotan, A.
- Jonston, S.
- Jones, D. L.
- Keith, M.
- Koay, J. Y.
- Lazio, T. J. W.
- Majid, W.
- Murphy, T.
- Navarro, R.
- Phillips, C.
- Quinn, P.
- Preston, R. A.
- Stansby, B.
- Stairs, I.
- Stappers, B.
- Staveley-Smith, L.
- Tingay, S.
- Thompson, D.
- van Straten, W.
- Wagstaff, K.
- Warren, M.
- Wayth, R.
- Wen, L.
DOIAbstract
We are developing a purely commensal survey experiment for fast (<5 s) transient radio sources. Short-timescale transients are associated with the most energetic and brightest single events in the Universe. Our objective is to cover the enormous volume of transients parameter space made available by ASKAP, with an unprecedented combination of sensitivity and field of view. Fast timescale transients open new vistas on the physics of high brightness temperature emission,extreme states of matter and the physics of strong gravitational fields. In addition, the detection of extragalactic objects affords us an entirely new and extremely sensitive probe on the huge reservoir of baryons present in the IGM. We outline here our approach to the consid...
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