ASKAP VAST Transients Project (VAST)
The ASKAP Variables and Slow Transients survey gives us an unprecedented opportunity to investigate the sky at radio wavelengths for highly variable and transient sources on timescales as short as 5 seconds. ASKAP’s wide-field survey capabilities will enable the discovery and investigation of variable and transient phenomena from the local to the cosmological including flare stars, intermittent pulsars, X-ray binaries, magnetars, extreme scattering events, intra-day variables, radio supernovae and the orphan afterglows of gamma-ray bursts. VAST will probe unexplored regions of phase space where new classes of transient sources may be detected
Area of science
Radio Astronomy
Systems used
Nimbus and Managed Storage
Applications used
Partner Institution: University of Sydney |
Project Code: L000031
The Challenge
The challenge is managing and processing the large amounts of data from ASKAP, and finding and identifying rare transient objects within those datasets.
The Solution
Developing a software pipeline to process the data and identify transients.
The Outcome
We use Pawsey to store our data, serve it to the VAST collaboration, and run our software pipeline: https://www.vast-survey.org/vast-pipeline/
List of Publications
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/user/libraries/mdjIyD2lQBC_pY5vrbFf2A
