Recent Highlights


Lee et al. (2025) The emission of interpulses by a 6.45-hour period coherent radio transient

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Driessen et al. (2024) The Sydney Radio Star Catalogue: Properties of radio stars at megahertz to gigahertz frequencies

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Caleb et al. (2024) An emission-state-switching radio transient with a 54-minute period

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Recent Publications:


Total papers: 63 (last updated 2026-08-07)
Total citations: 689
H-index: 22

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  1. Wang, Dobie, Murphy et al., 2026, VASTER: The ASKAP real-time fast-imaging pipeline -- overview and discovery of two long period transients, arXiv e-prints, arXiv:2606.20067, arXiv:2606.20067, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2606.20067
  2. Rose, Pritchard, Murphy et al., 2026, Periodic Radio and X-ray Emission from an Accreting White Dwarf Binary, arXiv e-prints, arXiv:2606.04232, arXiv:2606.04232, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2606.04232
  3. Pritchard, Murphy, Dobie et al., 2026, Discovery of a 36-min long-period transient ASKAP J142431.2─612611, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 43, e083, arXiv:2603.07857, DOI: 10.1017/pasa.2026.10177
  4. Anumarlapudi, Kaplan, Hurley-Walker et al., 2026, A Sample of Short-lived Galactic Radio Transients from ASKAP VAST, The Astrophysical Journal, 1003, 91, arXiv:2604.11881, DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae6112
  5. Crook-Mansour, Fender, Andersson et al., 2026, Detection of an extremely luminous radio counterpart to the Be/X-ray binary A0538−66, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 548, stag224, arXiv:2601.22741, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stag224
  6. Sengar, Kaplan, Lenc et al., 2026, Discovery of Two Highly Scattered Pulsars from Image-based Circular Polarization Searches with the Australian SKA Pathfinder, The Astrophysical Journal, 1000, 192, arXiv:2509.20611, DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae44f1
  7. de Ruiter, Dobie, Murphy et al., 2026, The ASKAP Variables and Slow Transients (VAST) extragalactic survey ─ Data Release 1, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 43, e039, arXiv:2602.22739, DOI: 10.1017/pasa.2026.10171
  8. Gulati, Murphy, Kaplan et al., 2026, ASKAP J005512.2−255834: A Luminous, Long-lived Radio Transient at z = 0.1—an Orphan Afterglow or an Off-nuclear TDE from an IMBH?, The Astrophysical Journal, 1000, 118, arXiv:2602.20522, DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae4351
  9. Murphy and Kaplan, 2026, The Dawes review 13: A new look at the dynamic radio sky, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 43, e006, arXiv:2511.10785, DOI: 10.1017/pasa.2025.10128
  10. Lee, Wang, Caleb et al., 2026, Searching for long-period radio transients in ASKAP EMU data with 10-s imaging, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 545, staf2008, arXiv:2511.09770, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staf2008
  11. Das, Driessen, Shultz et al., 2025, VAST-MeMeS: Characterising non-thermal radio emission from magnetic massive stars using the Australian SKA Pathfinder, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 42, e147, arXiv:2505.09148, DOI: 10.1017/pasa.2025.10090
  12. Anumarlapudi, Kaplan, Rea et al., 2025, ASKAP J144834−685644: a newly discovered long period radio transient detected from radio to X-rays, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 542, 1208, arXiv:2507.13453, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staf1227
  13. Das, Shultz, Pritchard et al., 2025, Discovery of Main-sequence Radio Pulse emitters from widefield sky surveys, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 42, e110, arXiv:2505.07195, DOI: 10.1017/pasa.2025.10036
  14. Birmingham, Ward, Nyland et al., 2025, The birth of young radio jets in changing-look AGN: a population study, arXiv e-prints, arXiv:2507.01355, arXiv:2507.01355, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2507.01355
  15. Lee, Caleb, Murphy et al., 2025, The emission of interpulses by a 6.45-h-period coherent radio transient, Nature Astronomy, 9, 393, arXiv:2501.09133, DOI: 10.1038/s41550-024-02452-z
  16. Driessen, Pritchard, Murphy et al., 2024, The Sydney Radio Star Catalogue: Properties of radio stars at megahertz to gigahertz frequencies, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 41, e084, arXiv:2404.07418, DOI: 10.1017/pasa.2024.72
  17. Dobie, Zic, Oswald et al., 2024, A two-minute burst of highly polarized radio emission originating from low Galactic latitude, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 535, 909, arXiv:2406.12352, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae2376
  18. Dykaar, Drout, Gaensler et al., 2024, An Untargeted Search for Radio-emitting Tidal Disruption Events in the VAST Pilot Survey, The Astrophysical Journal, 973, 104, arXiv:2406.08371, DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad5a98
  19. Anumarlapudi, Dobie, Kaplan et al., 2024, Radio Afterglows from Tidal Disruption Events: An Unbiased Sample from ASKAP RACS, The Astrophysical Journal, 974, 241, arXiv:2407.12097, DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad64d3
  20. Caleb, Lenc, Kaplan et al., 2024, An emission-state-switching radio transient with a 54-minute period, Nature Astronomy, 8, 1159, arXiv:2407.12266, DOI: 10.1038/s41550-024-02277-w
  21. Anumarlapudi, Kaplan, Sivakoff et al., 2024, ASKAP VAST radio detections of Swift J151857.0-572147, The Astronomer's Telegram, 16617, 1, DOI:
  22. Rose, Murphy, Driessen et al., 2024, ASKAP radio detections of possible candidate BD-21 1074 for GRB 240514E, The Astronomer's Telegram, 16628, 1, DOI:
  23. Pritchard, Murphy, Heald et al., 2024, Multi-epoch sampling of the radio star population with the Australian SKA Pathfinder, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 529, 1258, arXiv:2312.11031, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae127
  24. Anumarlapudi, Kaplan, Dobie et al., 2024, LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA S240422ed: Archival radio detection of EP240426a, GRB Coordinates Network, 36329, 1, DOI:
  25. Zic, Wang, Lenc et al., 2024, Discovery of radio eclipses from 4FGL J1646.5-4406: a new candidate redback pulsar binary, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 528, 5730, arXiv:2312.00261, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae033
  26. Anumarlapudi, Kaplan, Dobie et al., 2024, Rapid late time radio flux density changes of the tidal disruption event ASASSN-15oi 9 years after disruption, The Astronomer's Telegram, 16502, 1, DOI:
  27. Wang, Kaplan, Sengar et al., 2024, Discovery of a Young, Highly Scattered Pulsar PSR J1032-5804 with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder, The Astrophysical Journal, 961, 175, arXiv:2311.14880, DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad0fe8
  28. Sfaradi, Beniamini, Horesh et al., 2024, An off-axis relativistic jet seen in the long lasting delayed radio flare of the TDE AT 2018hyz, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527, 7672, arXiv:2308.01965, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad3717
  29. An, Lao, Xu et al., 2023, An optimized transient detection pipeline for the ASKAP Variables and Slow Transients (VAST) survey, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 526, 1809, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad2809
  30. Dobie, Rose, Kaplan, and Sivakoff, 2023, ASKAP detection of classical nova V6598 Sgr 2023, The Astronomer's Telegram, 16383, 1, DOI:
  31. Anumarlapudi, Ehlke, Jones et al., 2023, Characterizing Pulsars Detected in the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey, The Astrophysical Journal, 956, 28, arXiv:2308.00100, DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aceb5d
  32. Wang, Murphy, Lenc et al., 2023, Radio variable and transient sources on minute time-scales in the ASKAP pilot surveys, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 523, 5661, arXiv:2306.04263, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad1727
  33. Leung, Murphy, Lenc et al., 2023, A matched-filter approach to radio variability and transients: searching for orphan afterglows in the VAST Pilot Survey, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 523, 4029, arXiv:2306.00447, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad1670
  34. Rose, Pritchard, Murphy et al., 2023, Periodic Radio Emission from the T8 Dwarf WISE J062309.94-045624.6, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 951, L43, arXiv:2306.15219, DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ace188
  35. Anumarlapudi, Kaplan, Sivakoff et al., 2023, ASKAP observations of the black-hole X-ray candidate MAXI J1810-222, The Astronomer's Telegram, 16136, 1, DOI:
  36. Gulati, Murphy, Kaplan et al., 2023, Classical novae in the ASKAP pilot surveys, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 40, e025, arXiv:2303.17759, DOI: 10.1017/pasa.2023.21
  37. Dobie, Pritchard, Wang et al., 2023, Radio transients and variables in the tenth Deeper, Wider, Faster observing run, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 519, 4684, arXiv:2211.07049, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac3731
  38. Anumarlapudi, Kaplan, Sivakoff et al., 2023, ASKAP radio detections following the recent brightening of the Nova V1716 Sco., The Astronomer's Telegram, 16155, 1, DOI:
  39. Wang, Murphy, Kaplan et al., 2022, A pilot ASKAP survey for radio transients towards the Galactic Centre, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 516, 5972, arXiv:2209.02352, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac2542
  40. Rigney, Ramsay, Carley et al., 2022, Searching for stellar flares from low-mass stars using ASKAP and TESS, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 516, 540, arXiv:2207.00405, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac2143
  41. Pintaldi, Stewart, O'Brien, Kaplan, and Murphy, 2022, A Scalable Transient Detection Pipeline for the Australian SKA Pathfinder VAST Survey, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXX, 532, 333, arXiv:2101.05898, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2101.05898
  42. Wang, Murphy, Kaplan et al., 2022, Discovery of PSR J0523-7125 as a Circularly Polarized Variable Radio Source in the Large Magellanic Cloud, The Astrophysical Journal, 930, 38, arXiv:2205.00622, DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac61dc
  43. Gulati, Murphy, Wang, Leung, and Lenc, 2022, Dimming of classical nova V1369 Cen (Nova Centauri 2013) from ATCA and ASKAP radio observations, The Astronomer's Telegram, 15310, 1, DOI:
  44. Dobie, Stewart, Hotokezaka et al., 2022, A comprehensive search for the radio counterpart of GW190814 with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 510, 3794, arXiv:2109.08452, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab3628
  45. Gulati, Murphy, Wang et al., 2022, ATCA and ASKAP radio observations of classical nova YZ Ret, The Astronomer's Telegram, 15264, 1, DOI:
  46. Dobie, Kaplan, Sivakoff et al., 2021, Archival ASKAP observations of the candidate counterpart to IceCube-211116A, The Astronomer's Telegram, 15049, 1, DOI:
  47. Murphy, Kaplan, Stewart et al., 2021, The ASKAP Variables and Slow Transients (VAST) Pilot Survey, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 38, e054, arXiv:2108.06039, DOI: 10.1017/pasa.2021.44
  48. Wang, Kaplan, Murphy et al., 2021, Discovery of ASKAP J173608.2-321635 as a Highly Polarized Transient Point Source with the Australian SKA Pathfinder, The Astrophysical Journal, 920, 45, arXiv:2109.00652, DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac2360
  49. Leung, Murphy, Ghirlanda et al., 2021, A search for radio afterglows from gamma-ray bursts with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 503, 1847, arXiv:2102.01948, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab326
  50. Wang, Tuntsov, Murphy et al., 2021, ASKAP observations of multiple rapid scintillators reveal a degrees-long plasma filament, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 502, 3294, arXiv:2101.06048, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab139
  51. Pritchard, Murphy, Zic et al., 2021, A circular polarization survey for radio stars with the Australian SKA Pathfinder, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 502, 5438, arXiv:2102.01801, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab299
  52. Zic, Murphy, Lynch et al., 2020, A Flare-type IV Burst Event from Proxima Centauri and Implications for Space Weather, The Astrophysical Journal, 905, 23, arXiv:2012.04642, DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abca90
  53. Wang, Murphy, Kaplan, Bannister, and Dobie, 2020, The capability of the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder to detect prompt radio bursts from neutron star mergers, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 37, e051, arXiv:2010.09949, DOI: 10.1017/pasa.2020.42
  54. Dobie, Murphy, Leung et al., 2020, GRB 200405B: ATCA follow-up and ASKAP limits on pre-burst radio emission, GRB Coordinates Network, 27516, 1, DOI:
  55. Dobie, Stewart, Murphy et al., 2019, An ASKAP Search for a Radio Counterpart to the First High-significance Neutron Star-Black Hole Merger LIGO/Virgo S190814bv, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 887, L13, arXiv:1910.13647, DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab59db
  56. Kaplan, Dai, Lenc et al., 2019, Serendipitous Discovery of PSR J1431-6328 as a Highly Polarized Point Source with the Australian SKA Pathfinder, The Astrophysical Journal, 884, 96, arXiv:1908.03163, DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab397f
  57. Zic, Stewart, Lenc et al., 2019, ASKAP detection of periodic and elliptically polarized radio pulses from UV Ceti, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 488, 559, arXiv:1906.06570, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz1684
  58. Dobie, Kaplan, Stewart et al., 2019, ASKAP observations of blazars possibly associated with neutrino events IC190730A and IC190704A, The Astronomer's Telegram, 12981, 1, DOI:
  59. Dobie, Murphy, Kaplan et al., 2019, An optimised gravitational wave follow-up strategy with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 36, e019, arXiv:1903.01481, DOI: 10.1017/pasa.2019.9
  60. Bhandari, Bannister, Murphy et al., 2018, A pilot survey for transients and variables with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 478, 1784, arXiv:1804.11048, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty1157
  61. Hobbs, Heywood, Bell et al., 2016, A pilot ASKAP survey of radio transient events in the region around the intermittent pulsar PSR J1107-5907, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 456, 3948, arXiv:1512.02702, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv2893
  62. Murphy, Chatterjee, Kaplan et al., 2013, VAST: An ASKAP Survey for Variables and Slow Transients, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 30, e006, arXiv:1207.1528, DOI: 10.1017/pasa.2012.006
  63. Banyer, Murphy, and VAST Collaboration, 2012, VAST: A Real-time Pipeline for Detecting Radio Transients and Variables on the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) Telescope, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXI, 461, 725, arXiv:1201.3130, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.1201.3130
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The VAST survey goals are described in Murphy et al. (2013), “VAST: An ASKAP Survey for Variables and Slow Transients

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