Radio observations of extra-galactic transients with the AMI-LA telescope

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• Dr. Lauren Rhodes (University of Oxford)
• Tuesday 30 April 2024, 11:15-12:00
• Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

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The Arcminute Microkelvin Imager – Large Array has been instrumental in the study of radio transients. In this talk I will give an overview of the current extragalactic transients monitoring program which is running on AMI -LA. To demonstrate the power of AMI -LA in improving our shock physics in extragalactic transients I will go through two examples of events where AMI -LA has been instrumental. Starting with the most relativistic systems: GRBs have been observed by AMI -LA from as early as 2012 with the ALARRM rapid follow up system. GRB 221009A , also known as the brightest of all time, has demonstrated the unparalleled temporal coverage achievable with AMI -LA from a few hours to over 100 days post burst. AMI -LA has also enabled us to draw conclusions that wouldn’t be possible with other facilities such as the jetted tidal disruption event AT2022cmc that was first reported in 2022. Due to the high cadence light curve with AMI -LA, we were able to prove for the first time, in a model independent manner that the radio emission originated from a highly relativistic outflow. Such a result has been vital in terms of our understand of tidal disruption events and can now infer the presence of off-axis jets such as AT2018hyz.

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