The Commensal Real-time ASKAP Fast Transients (CRAFT) survey

Understand

We are developing a purely commensal survey experiment for fast (<5s) transient radio sources.

• Short-timescale transients are associated with the most energetic and brightest single events in the Universe.
• Our objective is to cover the enormous volume of transients parameter space made available by ASKAP, with an unprecedented combination of sensitivity and field of view.
• Fast timescale transients open new vistas on the physics of high brightness temperature emission, extreme states of matter and the physics of strong gravitational fields.