SKA Science Assessment Workshop - Transients

27 Jan 2014, 09:15 → 28 Jan 2014, 18:00 UTC

Steve Rawlings Boardroom (SKA Office)

Link to video stream https://polyrss.skatelescope.org/portal/views/main.jsf

Working group summary Final report

Monday, 27 January

09:30 → 10:30 Welcome

Speaker: Dr Robert Braun (SKA Organisation)

Slides Transients_SKA_Welcome.pdf

10:30 → 10:45 Discussion

10:45 → 11:00 Tea/Coffee

11:00 → 11:45 Headline science and top-level science requirements

Speaker: Prof. Rob Fender (Oxford)

Slides SAW-headline-RPF.pdf

11:45 → 12:00 Discussion

12:00 → 12:45 Specifics of coherent transients: fast search and respond etc

Speaker: Dr J.-P. Macquart (Curtin)

Slides ManchesterFastTrans.pdf

12:45 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:00 The case for VLBI for transients

Speakers: Dr Adam Deller (ASTRON), Dr Zsolt Paragi (JIVE)

Slides Deller-SKA-VLBI-transients-swg-manchester.pdf SAW_Jodrell_27Jan2014.pdf

14:00 → 14:15 Discussion

14:15 → 15:30 The Baseline Design

Speakers: Prof. Peter Dewdney (SKA Organisation), Dr Robert Braun (SKA Organisation)

Slides Dewdney_baseline_design_2013sep10(RevB).pdf Transients_SKA_Baseline.pdf

15:30 → 15:45 Tea/Coffee

15:45 → 16:00 Specifics of synchrotron transients: multiwavelength objects etc

See first slide of following talk (AMI) for key slide. This talk was not presented due to time crunch.

Speaker: Prof. Rob Fender (Oxford)

16:00 → 16:30 Real-­time/commensal transient searches and transient spigots - Examples from AMI

Speaker: Prof. Rob Fender (Oxford)

Slides SAW-Commensal-AMI.pdf

16:30 → 17:00 Real-time/commensal transient searches and transient spigots - Examples from KAT

Speaker: Dr Richard Armstrong (UCT/SKA)

Slides Armstrong_T_SAW_MK_KAT7.pdf

17:00 → 17:30 Discussion

19:15 → 21:30 Workshop Dinner

Tuesday, 28 January

09:00 → 09:30 ARTEMIS (Advanced Radio Transients Event Monitor and Identification System)

Speaker: Dr Aris Karastergiou (Oxford)

Slides Artemis-TransientsSAW.pdf

09:30 → 09:45 Discussion

09:45 → 10:00 Transient Buffer Boards

Local Presenters: Jason Hessels

Speaker: Dr Cath Trott (Curtin)

Slides Hessels_TSWG_SAW_Buffers_140127.pdf

10:00 → 10:15 Software lessons learnt from LOFAR

Speaker: Dr John Swinbank (Astronomical Institute "Anton Pannekoek")

Slides jds-ska-pdf.pdf

10:15 → 10:30 Discussion

10:30 → 10:45 Tea/Coffee

10:45 → 11:30 SKA1-LOW: detailed comments on array, suggested change requests

Convener: Dr Jason Hessels (ASTRON)

slides Hessels_TSWG_SAW_SKA-Low_140127.pdf

11:30 → 11:45 Discussion

11:45 → 12:30 SKA1-MID: detailed comments on array, suggested change requests

Convener: Dr Ben Stappers (Manchester)

slides Transients-SAS-Changes-SKA1-Mid_copy.pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:15 SKA1-SUR: detailed comments on array, suggested change requests

Convener: Dr J.-P. Macquart (Curtin)

slides SKASurveyManchester.pdf

14:15 → 14:30 Discussion

14:30 → 15:15 Summary of proposed Baseline design change requests

Speaker: Dr J.-P. Macquart (Curtin)

Slides TransientsChangeRequests.pptx

15:15 → 15:30 Discussion

15:30 → 16:00 Tea/Coffee