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2019MNRAS.482.2502K - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 482, 2502-2514 (2019/January-2)

AARTFAAC flux density calibration and Northern hemisphere catalogue at 60 MHz.

KUIACK M., HUIZINGA F., MOLENAAR G., PRASAD P., ROWLINSON A. and WIJERS R.A.M.J.

Abstract (from CDS):

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 1 s in order to survey the Northern hemisphere for short duration, low-frequency transients, such as the prompt doneelectromagnetic 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 74 MHz necessitated the creation of the AARTFAAC source catalogue, at 60 MHz, 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 1 s snapshot, in real-time.

Abstract Copyright: © 2018 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): methods: data analysis - catalogues - surveys - radio continuum: general

VizieR on-line data: <Available at CDS (J/MNRAS/482/2502): tablea1.dat>

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