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The SALT Transient Programme

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2019

D. A. H. Buckley
D. A. H. Buckley*
Affiliation:
South African Astronomical Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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The SALT transient follow-up programme began in 2016 and will continue for 5 semesters (until 31 Oct 2018), with an expectation of renewal thereafter. It is currently the only SALT Large Science Programme, and was awarded ~250 ksec. per semester, with a significant fraction (60%) given for the highest priority target-of-opportunity time. The aim is to characterise and study transients across a wide range of classes, currently including (from closest to most distant) cataclysmic variables, novæ and other associated eruptive variables, low- and high-mass X-ray binaries, OGLE and Gaia transients (including tidal disruption events), super-luminous and unusual core-collapse supernovæ, kilonovæ and other candidate optical counterparts to gravitational-wave events, flaring blazars and AGN, and gamma-ray bursts. This programme currently involves four SALT partners, of which South Africa is the major contributor of time (74%) and resources and includes five institutions with over 30 co-investigators. This talk reviewed the nature of the programme and highlighted some of the results to date.

Keywords

Gravitational waves(stars:) binaries: generalstars: dwarf novænovæcataclysmic variablesgalaxies: activegamma rays: burstsX-rays: binaries
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 14 , Symposium S339: Southern Horizons in Time-Domain Astronomy , November 2017 , pp. 176 - 180
Copyright
© International Astronomical Union 2019 

Footnotes

(on behalf of the SALT Transient Collaboration)

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