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The unprecedented volume and rate of transient events that will be discovered by the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) demands that the astronomical community update its followup paradigm. Alert-brokers -- automated software system to…

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With the installation of next-generation phased array feed (PAF) receivers on radio telescopes, there is an urgent need to develop effective and computationally efficient radio frequency interference (RFI) mitigation methods for large-scale…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Juntao Bai , Shi Dai , Na Wang , Stefan Osłowski , Shuangqiang Wang , George Hobbs , Jianping Yuan , Wenming Yan , Qijun Zhi , Lunhua Shang , Xin Xu , Shijun Dang , De Zhao

To investigate the use of saliency-map analysis to aid in searches for transient signals, such as fast radio bursts and individual pulses from radio pulsars. We aim to demonstrate that saliency maps provide the means to understand…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 C. Zhang , C. Wang , G. Hobbs , C. J. Russell , D. Li , S. -B. Zhang , S. Dai , J. -W. Wu , Z. -C. Pan , W. -W. Zhu , L. Toomey , Z. -Y. Ren

We present techniques developed to calibrate and correct Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) low frequency (72-300 MHz) radio observations for polarimetry. The extremely wide field-of-view, excellent instantaneous (u, v)-coverage and…

The imaging instruments on board INTEGRAL have wide fields of view and high time resolution. Therefore, they are ideal instruments to search for pulsating sources and/or transient events. We are systematically searching for pulsations and…

Pulsar timing array projects are carrying out high precision observations of millisecond pulsars with the aim of detecting ultra-low frequency (~ 10^{-9} to 10^{-8} Hz) gravitational waves. We show how unambiguous detections of such waves…

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The performance of perception systems developed for autonomous driving vehicles has seen significant improvements over the last few years. This improvement was associated with the increasing use of LiDAR sensors and point cloud data to…

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In a typical multi-standard military communication receiver, fast and reliable spectrum sensing unit is required to extract the information of multiple channels (frequency bands) present in a wideband input signal. In this paper, an energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-16 S. J. Darak , A. P. Vinod , E. M-K. Lai

Over the next decade, we can expect time domain astronomy to flourish at optical and radio wavelengths. In parallel with these efforts, a dedicated transient "machine" operating at higher energies (X-ray band through soft gamma-rays) is…

LOFAR, the Low Frequency Array, is a new radio telescope under construction in the Netherlands, designed to operate between 30 and 240 MHz. The Transients Key Project is one of the four Key Science Projects which comprise the core LOFAR…

The detection of fast radio bursts (FRBs) in radio astronomy is a complex task due to the challenges posed by radio frequency interference (RFI) and signal dispersion in the interstellar medium. Traditional search algorithms are often…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-07 Yong-Kun Zhang , Di Li , Yi Feng , Chao-Wei Tsai , Pei Wang , Chen-Hui Niu , Hua-Xi Chen , Yu-Hao Zhu

The Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) is a project aimed to discover transients in the Universe, including Type Ia supernovae, core-collapse supernovae, and other exotic and rare transient events. PTF utilizes the Palomar 48-inch Telescope…

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Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) experiments exploit the clock-like behaviour of an array of millisecond pulsars, with the goal of detecting low-frequency gravitational waves. PTA experiments have been in operation over the last decade, led by…

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Accurate targets detection and tracking with mmWave radar is a key sensing capability that will enable more intelligent systems, create smart, efficient, automated system. This paper proposes an end-to-end detection-estimation-track…

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Rotating Radio Transients (RRATs) are a subclass of pulsars first identified in 2006 that are detected only in searches for single pulses and not through their time averaged emission. Here, we present the results of observations of 19 RRATs…

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A systematic study of 80 known pulsars observed at 185 MHz has been conducted using archival incoherent-sum data from the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). The dataset comprises 48 drift-scan observations from the MWA Voltage Capture System,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-13 Ting Yu , Hongyu Gong , Zhifu Gao , Zhongli Zhang , Zhigang Wen , Yujie Wang , Tao An

Frequency-modulated continuous wave radars have gained increasing popularity in the automotive industry. Their robustness against adverse weather conditions makes it a suitable choice for radar object detection in advanced driver assistance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-18 Huaiyu Chen , Fahed Hassanat , Robert Laganiere , Martin Bouchard

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), like pulsars, display radio emission from compact regions such that they can be treated as point sources. As this radiation propagates through space, they encounter sources of lensing such as a gravitational field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-11 Zarif Kader , Matt Dobbs , Calvin Leung , Kiyoshi W. Masui , Mawson W. Sammons

The last couple of decades have seen an emergence of transient detection facilities in various avenues of time domain astronomy which has provided us with a rich dataset of transients. The rates of these transients have implications in star…

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