AARTFAAC flux density calibration Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Kuiack M.
  2. Huizinga F.
  3. Molenaar G.
  4. Prasad P.
  5. Rowlinson A.,Wijers R.A.M.J.
  6. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present a method for calibrating the flux density scale for images generated by the Amsterdam ASTRON Radio Transient Facility And Analysis Centre (AARTFAAC). AARTFAAC produces a stream of all-sky images at a rate of 1s in order to survey the Northern hemisphere for short duration, low-frequency transients, such as the prompt electromagnetic counterpart to gravitational wave events, magnetar flares, blazars, and other as of yet unobserved phenomena. Therefore, an independent flux density scaling solution per image is calculated via bootstrapping, comparing the measured apparent brightness of sources in the field to a reference catalogue. However, the lack of accurate flux density measurements of bright sources below 74MHz necessitated the creation of the AARTFAAC source catalogue, at 60MHz, which contains 167 sources across the Northern hemisphere. Using this as a reference results in a sufficiently high number of detected sources in each image to calculate a stable and accurate flux scale per 1s snapshot, in real-time.

Keywords
  1. surveys
  2. radio-continuum-emission
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2019MNRAS.482.2502K
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/MNRAS/482/2502
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/482/2502

Access

Web browser access HTML
http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/MNRAS/482/2502
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/MNRAS/482/2502
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/MNRAS/482/2502
IVOA Table Access TAP
http://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tap
Run SQL-like queries with TAP-enabled clients (e.g., TOPCAT).
IVOA Cone Search SCS
For use with a cone search client (e.g., TOPCAT).
http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/MNRAS/482/2502/tablea1?
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/MNRAS/482/2502/tablea1?
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/MNRAS/482/2502/tablea1?

History

2022-08-02T08:34:11Z
Resource record created
2022-08-02T08:34:11Z
Created
2024-08-19T20:14:47Z
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