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LOFT-e: Localisation Of Fast Transients with e-MERLIN

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 June 2018

C. R. H. Walker ,
R. P. Breton ,
P. A. Harrison ,
A. Holloway ,
M. J. Keith ,
M. Kramer ,
M. Malenta ,
M. B. Mickaliger ,
J. Roy  and
T. W. Scragg
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C. R. H. Walker
Affiliation:
Jodrell Bank Center for Astrophysics, University of Manchester, Alan Turing Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK email: charles.walker@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
R. P. Breton
Affiliation:
Jodrell Bank Center for Astrophysics, University of Manchester, Alan Turing Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK email: charles.walker@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
P. A. Harrison
Affiliation:
Jodrell Bank Center for Astrophysics, University of Manchester, Alan Turing Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK email: charles.walker@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
A. Holloway
Affiliation:
Jodrell Bank Center for Astrophysics, University of Manchester, Alan Turing Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK email: charles.walker@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
M. J. Keith
Affiliation:
Jodrell Bank Center for Astrophysics, University of Manchester, Alan Turing Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK email: charles.walker@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
M. Kramer
Affiliation:
Jodrell Bank Center for Astrophysics, University of Manchester, Alan Turing Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK email: charles.walker@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk Max-Planck Institute für Radio Astronomy, Auf dem Hügel 69, D-53121 Bonn, Germany email: mkramer@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de / michael.kramer@manchester.ac.uk
M. Malenta
Affiliation:
Jodrell Bank Center for Astrophysics, University of Manchester, Alan Turing Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK email: charles.walker@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
M. B. Mickaliger
Affiliation:
Jodrell Bank Center for Astrophysics, University of Manchester, Alan Turing Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK email: charles.walker@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
J. Roy
Affiliation:
NCRA-TIFR, Pune University Campus, Pune 411007, India email: jroy@ncra.tifr.res.in
T. W. Scragg
Affiliation:
Jodrell Bank Center for Astrophysics, University of Manchester, Alan Turing Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK email: charles.walker@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
B. W. Stappers
Affiliation:
Jodrell Bank Center for Astrophysics, University of Manchester, Alan Turing Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK email: charles.walker@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
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Abstract

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The majority of fast radio bursts (FRBs) are poorly localised, hindering their potential scientific yield as galactic, intergalactic, and cosmological probes. LOFT-e, a digital backend for the U.K.’s e-MERLIN seven-telescope interferometer will provide commensal search and real-time detection of FRBs, taking full advantage of its field of view (FoV), sensitivity, and observation time. Upon burst detection, LOFT-e will store raw data offline, enabling the sub-arcsecond localisation provided by e-MERLIN and expanding the pool of localised FRBs. The high-time resolution backend will additionally introduce pulsar observing capabilities to e-MERLIN.

Keywords

fast radio burststechniques: interferometrice-MERLIN
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 13 , Symposium S337: Pulsar Astrophysics the Next Fifty Years , September 2017 , pp. 422 - 423
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2018 

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