Additional Science Impacts

A sample of additional science areas that VLASS is expected to impact includes:

  • Extragalactic Science & Cosmology
    • Active Galactic Nuclei Feedback
    • Intercluster Medium Magnetic Fields
    • Cluster Weather and High-z Clusters
    • Integrated Sachs-Wolf Effect

 

  • Time Domain Science
    • Supernovae
    • Orphan Afterglows of Long Gamma-Ray Bursts
    • Stellar Flares & Coronal Mass Ejections
    • Substellar Auroral Emissions
    • Galactic Center Radio Transients

 

  • Galactic Science
    • Thermal Emission from Stellar Winds
    • Symbiotic Stars
    • Thermally-emitting Novae
    • Radio Emission from Massive Star Stellar Winds
    • X-ray Binaries

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