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ThunderKAT: The MeerKAT Large survey project for image-plane radio transients

Proceedings of Science (2016)

Authors:

R Fender, P Woudt, R Armstrong, P Groot, V McBride, J Miller-Jones, K Mooley, B Stappers, R Wijers, M Bietenholz, S Blyth, M Bottcher, D Buckley, P Charles, L Chomiuk, D Coppejans, S Corbel, M Coriat, F Daigne, E de Blok, H Falcke, J Girard, I Heywood, A Horesh, J Horrell, P Jonker, T Joseph, A Kamble, C Knigge, E Körding, M Kotze, C Kouveliotou, C Lynch, T Maccarone, P Meintjes, S Migliari, T Murphy, T Nagayama, G Nelemans, G Nicholson, T O’Brien, A Oodendaal, N Oozeer, J Osborne, M Perez-Torres, S Ratcliffe, V Ribeiro, E Rol, A Rushton, A Scaife, M Schurch, G Sivakoff, T Staley, D Steeghs, I Stewart, J Swinbank, K van der Heyden, A van der Horst, B van Soelen, S Vergani, B Warner, K Wiersema

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ThunderKAT is the image-plane transients programme for MeerKAT. The goal as outlined in 2010, and still today, is to find, identify and understand high-energy astrophysical processes via their radio emission (often in concert with observations at other wavelengths). Through a comprehensive and complementary programme of surveying and monitoring Galactic synchrotron transients (across a range of compact accretors and a range of other explosive phenomena) and exploring distinct populations of extragalactic synchrotron transients (microquasars, supernovae and possibly yet unknown transient phenomena) - both from direct surveys and commensal observations - we will revolutionise our understanding of the dynamic and explosive transient radio sky. As well as performing targeted programmes of our own, we have made agreements with the other MeerKAT large survey projects (LSPs) that we will also search their data for transients. This commensal use of the other surveys, which remains one of our key programme goals in 2016, means that the combined MeerKAT LSPs will produce by far the largest GHz-frequency radio transient programme to date.

First Results from Supernova Diversity and Rate Evolution (SUDARE) Survey at VST

Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings Springer Nature 42 (2016) 197-201

Authors:

MT Botticella, E Cappellaro, G Pignata, A Grado, L Limatola, M Della Valle, M Vaccari, L Greggio, S Spiro, F Bufano, L Tomasella, G Covone, M Capaccioli, N Napolitano, L Marchetti, E Gonzales-Solares, M Jarvis, M Radovich, S Benetti, A Pastorello, M Turatto, M Paolillo, P Schipani, A Baruffolo, E Cascone
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Star formation efficiency along the radio jet in Centaurus A

ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS 586 (2016) ARTN A45

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Q Salome, P Salome, F Combes, S Hamer, I Heywood
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The KMOS GTO Cluster Program: Absorption Line Spectroscopy of Cluster Galaxies at z∼1.5

MULTI-OBJECT SPECTROSCOPY IN THE NEXT DECADE: BIG QUESTIONS, LARGE SURVEYS, AND WIDE FIELDS 507 (2016) 281-285

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RCW Houghton, RL Davies, R Bender, A Beifiori, J Chan, M Cappellari, A Galametz, I Lewis, JT Mende, L Prichard, RP Saglia, R Sharples, R Smith, J Stott, D Wilman, M Wegner
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The KMOS Redshift One Spectroscopic Survey (KROSS): dynamical properties, gas and dark matter fractions of typical z ∼ 1 star-forming galaxies

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 457:2 (2016) 1888-1904

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John P Stott, AM Swinbank, Helen L Johnson, Alfie Tiley, Georgios Magdis, Richard Bower, Andrew J Bunker, Martin Bureau, Chris M Harrison, Matt J Jarvis, Ray Sharples, Ian Smail, David Sobral, Philip Best, Michele Cirasuolo
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