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Talks for transient science from ground-based observatories.
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Chris Martin (Explorative Science Foundation)10/02/2026, 10:00
GUSTO (Galactic/Extragalactic Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory) is a NASA Mission of Opportunity balloon mission which successfully flew for 55 days in early 2024 high over Antarctica. GUSTO carried out fully sampled large-area observations of two key fine structure lines - [NII] 3P1-3P0 and [CII] 2P3/2-2P1/2 over a 62 square degree area of the galactic plane with a velocity resolution...
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David Coulter (JHU/STScI)10/02/2026, 10:20
Detecting transients requires repeated imaging of the same region of the sky to search for the presence of a new object in the resulting "difference image". With the exception of the Euclid Deep Survey (EDS), there is no planned repeated Euclid imaging. As a result, transient searches will not be feasible in the Euclid Wide Survey (EWS), and the same could true of the Roman High Latitude Wide...
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Rodrigo Angulo (Johns Hopkins University)10/02/2026, 10:40
The Great Eruption (GE) of Eta Car in the mid-1800s was a spectacular astronomical event, visible to the naked eye (Smith & Frew 2011). It’s the proto-type of eruptive mass loss, luminous blue variables, and supernova impostors. Prior to the discovery of light echoes, the only observations of Eta Car's historical eruption were visual estimates of its brightness and approximate colors. Light...
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Jeff Cooke (Swinburne University)10/02/2026, 11:00
The Deeper, Wider, Faster (DWF) program has grown to coordinate over 100 telescopes located on every continent and in space operating at all wavelengths (radio, mm, IRm optical, UV, X-ray and gamma-ray) and includes particle detectors (and gravitational waves, when operating) to search for and study fast transients (those with millisecond-to-day durations). DWF was developed in 2014 and was...
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Gautham Narayan (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)10/02/2026, 11:20
We are living through parallel revolutions in time-domain astrophysics and artificial intelligence. Within a year of beginning operations, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will find more transient sources than all previous surveys combined. We will be able to use these cosmic lighthouses as beacons to map how stellar populations evolve with redshift, how feedback from their deaths impacts their...
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Dylan Magill (Queen's University Belfast)10/02/2026, 11:40
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s 10-Year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) is expected to revolutionise time-domain astronomy, with a hundredfold increase in detected transients. For tidal disruption events (TDEs) in particular, this will increase the population of observed objects from ~100 to ~30,000. As TDEs are a relatively recent discovery with a small catalogue of objects, many...
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Brayden Leicester (University of Canterbury)10/02/2026, 13:00
The number of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites is increasing, and they are having a noticeable impact on the quality of a large range of astronomical data. We use archival data from the Multi Unit Spectrographic Explorer (MUSE) to quantify the effects of satellites on the datacubes. MUSE is an integral field unit (IFU) so it captures a spectrum at every pixel in the field of view. Using the...
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Mike Engesser (STScI)10/02/2026, 13:20
JWST affords us the opportunity to test our cosmological models and understanding of stellar physics by observing supernovae at high-redshift. Specifically, type Ia supernovae are understood to be “standardizable candles”, an assumption which underlies some of our best cosmological distance measurements. However, it is possible that globally evolving properties, such as metallicity, could...
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Justin Pierel10/02/2026, 13:40
The Abell 370 galaxy cluster is famous for housing the first identified strongly lensed galaxy. The cluster was recently observed by several JWST programs, revealing two supernovae (SNe) that we followed-up with additional JWST imaging and spectroscopy. The first is SN Typhon, a quadruply-imaged, core-collapse SN at z=1.9 with a remarkable rest-frame UV light curve of each of its images from...
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Michael Albrow (University of Canterbury)
I will give an introduction to microlensing and describe the KMTNet survey, a high-cadence photometric survey of the Milky Way Bulge. From this survey, and over the last decade, we have detected ~ 25,000 microlensing events using our telescopes in Siding Spring, CTIO and SAAO. I will discuss observational features of the survey, what we have learned about the Galactic population of cool...
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