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    A VOEvent based automatic trigger system for the Murchison Widefield Array

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    Authors
    Hancock, Paul
    Anderson, Gemma
    Williams, A.
    Sokolowski, Marcin
    Tremblay, S.E.
    Rowlinson, A.
    Crosse, B.
    Meyers, B.W.
    Lynch, Christene
    Zic, A.
    Beardsley, A.P.
    Emrich, David
    Franzen, T.M.O.
    Horsley, L.
    Johnston-Hollitt, M.
    Kaplan, D.L.
    Kenney, D.
    Morales, M.F.
    Pallot, D.
    Steele, K.
    Tingay, Steven
    Trott, Cathryn
    Walker, Mia
    Wayth, Randall
    Wu, C.
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Hancock, P.J. and Anderson, G.E. and Williams, A. and Sokolowski, M. and Tremblay, S.E. and Rowlinson, A. and Crosse, B. et al. A VOEvent based automatic trigger system for the Murchison Widefield Array. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia. 36: Article No. E046.
    Source Title
    Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
    DOI
    10.1017/pasa.2019.40
    Additional URLs
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pasa.2019.40
    Faculty
    Faculty of Science and Engineering
    School
    School of Electrical Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences (EECMS)
    Funding and Sponsorship
    http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/CE110001020
    http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DE180100346
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    © Astronomical Society of Australia 2019; published by Cambridge University Press.

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/84728
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is an electronically steered low frequency ($<300$\,MHz) radio interferometer, with a `slew' time less than 8seconds. Low frequency ($\sim 100$\,MHz) radio telescopes are ideally suited for rapid-response follow-up of transients due to their large field of view, the inverted spectrum of coherent emission, and the fact that the dispersion delay between a 1GHz and 100MHz pulse is on the order of $1-10$\,min for dispersion measures of $100-2000$\,pc/cm$^3$. The MWA has previously been used to provide fast follow up for transient events including gamma-ray bursts, fast radio bursts, and gravitational waves, using systems that respond to gamma-ray coordinates network (GCN) packet-based notifications. We describe a system for automatically triggering MWA observations of such events, based on VOEvent triggers, which is more flexible, capable, and accurate than previous systems. The system can respond to external multi-messenger triggers, which makes it well-suited to searching for prompt coherent radio emission from gamma-ray bursts, the study of fast radio bursts and gravitational waves, single pulse studies of pulsars, and rapid follow-up of high-energy superflares from flare stars. The new triggering system has the capability to trigger observations in both the regular correlator mode (limited to $\geq 0.5$\,s integrations) or using the Voltage Capture System (VCS, $0.1$\,ms integration) of the MWA, and represents a new mode of operation for the MWA. The upgraded standard correlator triggering capability has been in use since MWA observing semester 2018B (July-Dec 2018), and the VCS and buffered mode triggers will become available for observing in a future semester.

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