Fast Radio Followup - Speaker Deck

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Fast radio followup Tim Staley University of Southampton TKP Meeting, December 2012

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5 MINUTE TOUR OF GRBS SWIFT-AMI UPDATE WHAT’S NEXT OUTLINE 5 MINUTE TOUR OF GRBS SWIFT-AMI UPDATE WHAT’S NEXT

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5 MINUTE TOUR OF GRBS SWIFT-AMI UPDATE WHAT’S NEXT OUTLINE 5 MINUTE TOUR OF GRBS SWIFT-AMI UPDATE WHAT’S NEXT

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5 MINUTE TOUR OF GRBS SWIFT-AMI UPDATE WHAT’S NEXT GRB PROGENITORS L. Rezzolla et al 2011

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5 MINUTE TOUR OF GRBS SWIFT-AMI UPDATE WHAT’S NEXT GRBS: RELATIVISTIC FIREBALLS M. Rees and P. Meszaros, 1992; W. Zhang and S. Woosley, 2004.

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5 MINUTE TOUR OF GRBS SWIFT-AMI UPDATE WHAT’S NEXT SYNCHROTRON AFTERGLOW Gou, Fox & Meszaros 2007

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5 MINUTE TOUR OF GRBS SWIFT-AMI UPDATE WHAT’S NEXT SYNCHROTRON AFTERGLOW Chandra and Frail, 2012.

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5 MINUTE TOUR OF GRBS SWIFT-AMI UPDATE WHAT’S NEXT TRANSITION: REVERSE SHOCK Z. Lucas Uhm , Bing Zhang, 2012

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5 MINUTE TOUR OF GRBS SWIFT-AMI UPDATE WHAT’S NEXT REVERSE SHOCK Z. Lucas Uhm , Bing Zhang, 2012

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5 MINUTE TOUR OF GRBS SWIFT-AMI UPDATE WHAT’S NEXT RS+FS COMBINED GRB110205A (Cucchiara et. al 2011)

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5 MINUTE TOUR OF GRBS SWIFT-AMI UPDATE WHAT’S NEXT RS IN THE RADIO (‘FLARES’) (S. Kulkarni et. al 1999)

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5 MINUTE TOUR OF GRBS SWIFT-AMI UPDATE WHAT’S NEXT RS IN THE RADIO (‘FLARES’) GRB051221A (Soderberg 2006)

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5 MINUTE TOUR OF GRBS SWIFT-AMI UPDATE WHAT’S NEXT MANUAL RADIO FOLLOW UP OF GRBS Data from Chanda and Frail, 2012. ∼ 8GHz.

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5 MINUTE TOUR OF GRBS SWIFT-AMI UPDATE WHAT’S NEXT PRIOR RADIO OBSERVATIONS (Excluding Dave Green et al. 1995)

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5 MINUTE TOUR OF GRBS SWIFT-AMI UPDATE WHAT’S NEXT WHY IS THIS INTERESTING? Reverse shocks and radio ﬂares (or lack thereof) inform us on: Magnetization of GRB jets, Lorentz factor of ejecta, Nature of ejecta (Baryonic vs Poynting ﬂux dominated).

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5 MINUTE TOUR OF GRBS SWIFT-AMI UPDATE WHAT’S NEXT MEANWHILE... ‘Dark’ GRBs (Rol 2005; Zauderer 2012). Re-injection events (Soderberg 2006; Cucchiara 2011) Unknown phenomena (Bannister 2012).

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5 MINUTE TOUR OF GRBS SWIFT-AMI UPDATE WHAT’S NEXT REBRIGHTENING GRB110213A (Cucchiara 2011)

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5 MINUTE TOUR OF GRBS SWIFT-AMI UPDATE WHAT’S NEXT AMI-LA (UK)

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5 MINUTE TOUR OF GRBS SWIFT-AMI UPDATE WHAT’S NEXT AMI-LA (UK) Arcminute Microkelvin Imager — Large Array 15 GHz central frequency, 4.5 GHz bandwidth 5.5 arcmin primary beam (FoV) 30 arcsec synthesised beam (PSF FWHM) ≈ 0.1mJy noise level, 1 hr image

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5 MINUTE TOUR OF GRBS SWIFT-AMI UPDATE WHAT’S NEXT THE SYSTEM 4 Pi Sky SWIFT BAT GCN Comet pysovo AMI Data reduction TraP (Staley et al 2012)

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5 MINUTE TOUR OF GRBS SWIFT-AMI UPDATE WHAT’S NEXT THE SYSTEM 4 Pi Sky SWIFT BAT GCN Comet pysovo AMI Data reduction TraP BAT: 13-30 sec GCN: ~2 sec GCN -> AMI: ~5 sec Slew: 4 min (Staley et al 2012)

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5 MINUTE TOUR OF GRBS SWIFT-AMI UPDATE WHAT’S NEXT FASTER RESPONSE TIMES

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5 MINUTE TOUR OF GRBS SWIFT-AMI UPDATE WHAT’S NEXT FASTER RESPONSE TIMES

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5 MINUTE TOUR OF GRBS SWIFT-AMI UPDATE WHAT’S NEXT NETWORKING [Transient] astronomy currently follows the “second grade soccer system” - everyone chases the same ball.

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5 MINUTE TOUR OF GRBS SWIFT-AMI UPDATE WHAT’S NEXT NETWORKING 4 Pi Sky SWIFT BAT GCN Comet pysovo AMI Data reduction TraP LOFAR- UK FERMI Southern hemisphere ? ??? Comet

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5 MINUTE TOUR OF GRBS SWIFT-AMI UPDATE WHAT’S NEXT OPTICAL FOLLOWUP: LT AND PT5M

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5 MINUTE TOUR OF GRBS SWIFT-AMI UPDATE WHAT’S NEXT OPTICAL FOLLOWUP: LT AND PT5M (LA PALMA)

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5 MINUTE TOUR OF GRBS SWIFT-AMI UPDATE WHAT’S NEXT QUESTIONS Classiﬁcation Teo, Adam, Gosia. Prioritization and scheduling Well framed as an ‘Intelligent Agents’ / computer science project. Collaborating with Southampton IA group (Amr Hussein).

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5 MINUTE TOUR OF GRBS SWIFT-AMI UPDATE WHAT’S NEXT SUMMARY Swift-AMI ‘proof of concept’ has piqued the interest from the GRB community. ‘Plumbing’ works ﬁne. Reduction process continues to evolve. Follow-up prioritization and scheduling system now in design phase.