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

1 Welcome

Speaker: Dr Robert Braun (SKA Organisation)

Slides Transients_SKA_Welcome.pdf

10:30 Discussion

10:45 Tea/Coffee

2 Headline science and top-level science requirements

Speaker: Prof. Rob Fender (Oxford)

Slides SAW-headline-RPF.pdf

11:45 Discussion

3 Specifics of coherent transients: fast search and respond etc

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

Slides ManchesterFastTrans.pdf

12:45 Lunch

4 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 Discussion

5 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 Tea/Coffee

6 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)

7 Real-­time/commensal transient searches and transient spigots - Examples from AMI

Speaker: Prof. Rob Fender (Oxford)

Slides SAW-Commensal-AMI.pdf

8 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 Discussion

Workshop Dinner

Tuesday, 28 January

9 ARTEMIS (Advanced Radio Transients Event Monitor and Identification System)

Speaker: Dr Aris Karastergiou (Oxford)

Slides Artemis-TransientsSAW.pdf

09:30 Discussion

10 Transient Buffer Boards

Local Presenters: Jason Hessels

Speaker: Dr Cath Trott (Curtin)

Slides Hessels_TSWG_SAW_Buffers_140127.pdf

11 Software lessons learnt from LOFAR

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

Slides jds-ska-pdf.pdf

10:15 Discussion

10:30 Tea/Coffee

SKA1-LOW: detailed comments on array, suggested change requests

Convener: Dr Jason Hessels (ASTRON)

slides Hessels_TSWG_SAW_SKA-Low_140127.pdf

11:30 Discussion

SKA1-MID: detailed comments on array, suggested change requests

Convener: Dr Ben Stappers (Manchester)

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

12:30 Lunch

SKA1-SUR: detailed comments on array, suggested change requests

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

slides SKASurveyManchester.pdf

14:15 Discussion

12 Summary of proposed Baseline design change requests

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

Slides TransientsChangeRequests.pptx

15:15 Discussion

15:30 Tea/Coffee