Speaker
Description
With the recent arrival of the next generation of sensitive radio telescopes, we have been making rapid progress towards constraining the transient population at radio frequencies on a wide range of timescales. First, I will outline the current developments in blind searches; including the discovery of the first transient sources at low-frequencies by LOFAR and MWA, fast radio bursts, and results from whole visible sky radio transient monitors. I will describe efforts to produce transient alerts in near real-time to enable other facilities to follow-up radio transients and how we can utilise our blind surveys to place constraints on Fermi transient sources. In the second part of this talk, I will give the highlights of targeted transient searches using low frequency radio telescopes. Over the past few years, a number of radio telescopes have been automated enabling a rapid response mode for transient follow-up. I will outline the various rapid response capabilities and what we can learn by triggering on Fermi transients. Looking ahead to the future, I will outline prospects with facilities such as the SKA.
