Speaker
Description
Only recently have radio telescopes been capable of automatically responding to transient alerts and multi-messenger events through the use of a rapid-response observing system. Such systems enable telescopes to automatically repoint and begin observing an event within seconds to minutes of its discovery, responding to transient alerts broadcast by dedicated telescopes or multi-messenger facilities. In this talk, I will present the new rapid-response mode on the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) and suggest an exciting use case to rapidly follow-up gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by HESS. TeV-detected GRBs are a very new field of high-energy astrophysics with high impact results. Early-time radio detections of such events can provide important and complementary spectral information on these GRBs by allowing us to directly probe the jet physics, energy budgets, magnetic fields, and properties of the surrounding medium. Such an experiment will be an excellent test-bed for transient strategies for both CTA and the SKA.
