An Argentinian window to the fast transient sky and to the very high resolution observations
The transient sky is composed of diverse phenomena that exhibits dramatic changes on short timescales. These events range from sub-second bursts to weeks and month timescale variability from compact systems. Several challenges need to be addressed by any facility that aims to observe such events: a fast re-positioning scheme to trace the first moments of events like Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), a large field of view to be able to detect new Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), or high sensitivity and high cadence to detect the outflows and flaring activity in Galactic binaries. Combined with a large bandwidth in order to recover the spectral information from these sources, it would allow us to unveil the physical processes taking place in these systems. The new Multipurpose Interferometer Array (MIA) in Argentina may represent a suitable facility to conduct deep and leading-edge studies on the transient sky as the aforementioned ones. Additionally, there is a significant interest from the community on the possibility of connecting the 30-m IAR antennas within a VLBI network such as the European VLBI Network (EVN). This would place Argentina in the map to achieve very-high-resolution (on the milliarcsecond level) observations. This mode, together with the observations with the MIA would open a potential new regime that would allow astronomers to significantly increase the knowledge on the Southern Sky.