V-FASTR Radio Transient Classifier

The V-FASTR (VLBA Fast Transient Experiment) system was motivated by the desire to monitor the radio sky for interesting transient events. To be confident that no interesting extragalactic event is missed, every VFASTR candidate requires human review and evaluation. Candidates consist of pulsar pulses, spurious correlated radio frequency interference (RFI), and other potentially unknown phenomena. However, the number of candidates generated by V-FASTR each day ranges from zero, to tens, to hundreds, to thousands, depending on the observational target and environmental conditions. On busy days, the volume of candidates exceeds the amount of time available for human review.