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Description
To date, radio studies of GRB afterglows have been triggered because of their multiwavelength properties i.e. high energetics or optical brightness. This has left us with a biased image of the radio properties of GRB afterglows and very little information on their earlier time behaviour. In this talk, I will provide an update on the PanRadio GRB program that has been we have been running on the Australian Telescope Compact Array since 2023. I will present an overview of the results from this program from a statistical perspective as well as highlighting to important aspects of the program: (1) a radio detection just minutes post-burst and (2) the ability to perform the long term (> year long) monitoring afterglows allowing for full afterglow characterisation. Our program demonstrates the importance of immediate, precise localisation of GRBs that Swift provides. Starting next year, we will do with the VLA what we’ve been doing with ATCA, but with better sensitivity.
