VAST: An ASKAP survey for variables and slow transients

Date

2013

Authors

Murphy, Tara
Chatterjee, Shami
Kaplan, D L
Banyer, Jay
Bell, M. E.
Bignall, H. E.
Bower, Geoffrey C
Cameron, Robert A
Coward, D
Cordes, James M

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CSLI Publications

Abstract

The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) will give us an unprecedented opportunity to investigate the transient sky at radio wavelengths. In this paper we present VAST, an ASKAP survey for Variables and Slow Transients. VAST will exploit t

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Keywords

Keywords: galaxies: general; ISM: general; radio continuum: general; stars: general; surveys; telescopes

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia

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Journal article

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Open Access

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