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Astrophysical transients are the sites of the most extreme physical processes occurring in the universe since the big bang. All explosive events - including accretion-powered outbursts, supernovae, neutron star mergers - are accompanied by synchrotron-emitting jets and afterglows which provide a unique way to measure the kinetic energy output of the transient. Coherently-emitting radio transients, such as Fast Radio Bursts, provide unique tests of physics in the extreme environments around neutron stars and can probe the intergalactic, galactic and circumgalactic medium in ways which are otherwise impossible.
A new generation of radio telescopes such as MeerKAT, ASKAP, CHIME and FAST have revolutionised this field in the past few years, and set the stage for the huge scientific potential of the Square Kilometre Array and next-generation Very Large Array.
This meeting will explore the current state of the art and look forward to this next generation of facilities. We will have a morning session on incoherent (synchrotron, explosive) transients, chaired by Rob Fender and Patrick Woudt, and an afternoon session on coherent transients chaired by Michael Kramer and Ben Stappers.
Meeting schedule:
10:00 TEA/COFFEE
The incoherent session (chairs Fender/Woudt)
10:30-10:40 Rob Fender: Welcome and Introduction [confirmed in person]
10:40-11:00 Tara Murphy: The radio transient sky from ASKAP [confirmed remote]
11:00-11:20 Assaf Horesh: Radio emission from tidal disruption events [confirmed in person]
11:20-11:40 Deanne Coppejans: Radio emission from CVs [confirmed in person]
11:40-12:00 Aprajita Hajela: Radio emission from GW [confirmed in person]
12:00-12:10 Gemma Anderson: Early-time variability from GRB 210702A [confirmed remote]
12:10-12:20 Lauren Rhodes: Afterglows of VHE GRBs [confirmed in person]
12:20-12:40 Discussion
12:40-13:40 Lunch Break and Poster Session in Geological Society
Lunch posters:
Alex Andersson / commensal [confirmed in person]
Alan Wood / ionospheric transients [confirmed in person?]
Adam Hennessy / prompt GRB emission [confirmed in person?]
The coherent session (chairs Kramer/Stappers)
13:40-14:00 Manish Caleb: FRBs with MeerKAT [accepted, remote]
14:00-14:20 Keith Bannister: FRBs with ASKAP [accepted, remote]
14:20-14:40 Ziggy Pleunis: FRBs with CHIME [accepted, remote]
14:40-15:00 Franz Kirsten: FRBs with PRECISE [accepted, perhaps in person]
15:00-15:20 Marilyn Cruces: FRBs with FAST and other telescopes [accepted, in person]
15:20-15:35 Natasha Hurley-Walker An ultra-long period radio transient detected at low frequency [contributed, remote]
15:35 TEA/COFFEE
Rob Fender: rob.fender@physics.ox.ac.uk
Michael Kramer: michael@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de
Ben Stappers: ben.stappers@manchester.ac.uk
Patrick Woudt: pwoudt@ast.uct.ac.za
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