Statistics – Applications
Scientific paper
Jan 2012
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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #219, #319.02
Statistics
Applications
Scientific paper
Systematic studies of transient and variable radio emission are a relative novelty. Searches for "slow” radio transients, sources that vary over timescales of days to months, have so far tended to focus on extragalactic fields. Many Galactic sources, however, vary on these timescales, including X-ray binaries, brown dwarfs, and several objects of unknown nature discovered in previous efforts. We present AGILITE, the ATA Galactic Lightcurve and Transient Experiment, an effort to characterize the population of Galactic radio transients and variables more fully. AGILITE has a large overall footprint (≈25 deg), a substantial number of epochs (≈200), and a significant dedication of observatory time (? hr over two years), which make it sensitive to rare objects as well as variability on many timescales. We describe the AGILITE pipeline and the current status of the project. We discuss prospects for the complete survey as well as other applications of the dataset, such as large-scale mapping of extended radio emission in the Galactic Plane.
Bower Geoffrey C.
Williams Peter K. G.
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