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Over the last three days of August the Variables and Slow Transients
with ASKAP (VAST) survey team got together at CSIRO Marsfield to talk
all about radio transients with ASKAP. The VAST team is using ASKAP
observations at various cadences to search for and investigate the
things that change in the radio sky. This includes tidal disruption
events, radio flare stars, intermittent pulsars, X-ray binaries,
magnetars, extreme scattering events, intra-day variables, radio
supernovae, the orphan afterglows of gamma-ray bursts and even flares
and bursts whose origins are a mystery (for now). The main goal of the
workshop was to plan future projects, learn more about the tools
available to the team, and explore the amazing ASKAP data that we
already have. Keep an eye out for even more exciting results from the
team!
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