Glossary of terms

GRB

A Gamma-Ray Burst

MWA

The Murchison Widefield Array, radio telescope in Western Australia

VCS

Voltage Capture System, an instrument on the MWA which captures data at the highest time/frequency resolution

ATCA

Australia Telescope Compact Array, radio telescope in New South Wales

SWIFT

The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, a Gamma-Ray telescope in orbit with x-ray, UV, and optical instruments.

Fermi

A Gamma-Ray space telescope.

VOEvent

Virtual Observatory Event, a format for distributing notices

PostgreSQL

A database management system, also known as Postrgres

Nimbus

A cloud compute system provided by Pawsey.

Pawsey

A super-computing facility in Perth. Hosts the MWA data archive, and provides most of the computing support for WA astronomers.