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Description
The science of radio astronomy is driven, to a large extent, by expanding the range of timescales, frequencies, field-of-view, and angular resolution we can achieve. Many serendipitous discoveries have been made by pushing the boundaries of what we can observe; pulsars and fast radio bursts (FRBs) are both seminal examples. So why not push to have it all? Here I will discuss the case for wide-field, long-baseline interferometry at the highest-possible time resolution. I will focus on what this can bring to the study of fast radio transients and I will discuss how ARGOS could potentially be part of a grander vision for a pan-European array that leverages the expertise and infrastructure that has been built up over the course of decades by the European Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) Network (EVN) and the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR). I will pepper the talk with some examples from my AstroFlash group's own research on FRBs.
