ThunderKAT/MeerKAT workshop at Oxford

ThunderKAT is the MeerKAT’s Large Survey Project on explosive radio transients. A nominal 3000 h of time have been awarded over a 5 year period (2016-2020) of MeerKAT science operation. In addition, ThunderKAT will have commensal data access to all MeerKAT LSPs to search for synchrotron radio transients in real-time. Miguel Pérez-Torres gave a talk on the commensal use of ThunderKAT/MeerKAT for blind searches of core-collapse supernovae, as well as on the potential use of ThunderKAT Target-of-Opportunity Time for the detection of radio emission from Type Ia SNe.