J14: Time Domain Radio Astronomy: An Example of Big Data in astronomy (1)

Friday, August 22  08:00-09:20,  Room #12

Fast radio transient sources, including pulsars, are excellent laboratories for studying fundamental physics, such as General Relativity, and high-energy astrophysics. Current and planned surveys to detect and study these objects provide severe challenges for the telescopes and associated instrumentation (including SKA) because of the extreme data rates requiring on-line processing. This session will highlight the scientific goals of high-speed time-domain radio astronomy, and introduce the associated technical challenges and proposed solutions.

8:00  J14.1   HIGH TIME RESOLUTION RADIO ASTRONOMY WITH LOW FREQUENCY INTERFEROMETRIC ARRAYS

R. Bhat

Dept of Imaging and Applied Physics, International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia

8:20  J14.2   A RENAISSANCE IN LOW-FREQUENCY RADIO PULSAR AND FAST TRANSIENT SCIENCE

J. W. T. Hessels^1,2

¹Astronomy Group, ASTRON - Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, Dwingeloo, Netherlands
²Anton Pannekoek Institute, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

8:40  J14.3   RADIO ASTRONOMY ON DEMAND: REAL-TIME DATA MANAGEMENT WITH LOFAR

M. W. Wise

ASTRON (Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy), Dwingeloo, Netherlands

9:00  J14.4   NEW APPROACHES FOR THE REAL-TIME DETECTION OF BINARY PULSARS WITH THE SQUARE KILOMETRE ARRAY (SKA)

E. van Heerden¹, A. Karastergiou^2,1, S. J. Roberts³, O. Smirnov¹

¹Department of Physics and Electronics, Rhodes Centre for Radio Astronomy Techniques & Technologies, Rhodes Univesrity, Grahamstown, South Africa
²Astrophysics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
³Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom