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Description
Radio transients in the image domain are currently undergoing a big revolution, with exciting new discoveries from radio telescopes around the World including from LOFAR. Key highlights from LOFAR include the detection of the first candidate coherent radio transient following a gamma-ray burst and the first identification of a source of the new class of long period Galactic transients.
In this talk, I will give an overview of the key results and projects underway searching for image plane transients with LOFAR. I will outline the projects we will conduct for LOFAR2.0 with rapid response triggers, and fully automated fast imaging and transient processing on the LOFAR2.0 Science Data Centre. I will describe our work in collaboration with the EuroFlash team to create a real time image plane transient detection system for LOFAR2.0. Finally, I will introduce the upcoming AARTFAAC2.0 and outline the exciting results we hope to obtain from it.
