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Pulsar search with time-domain observation is very computationally expensive and data volume will be enormous with the next generation telescopes such as the Square Kilometre Array. We apply artificial neural networks (ANNs), a machine…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-17 Naoyuki Yonemaru , Keitaro Takahashi , Hiroki Kumamoto , Shi Dai , Shintaro Yoshiura , Shinsuke Ideguchi

Modern pulsar surveys produce many millions of candidate pulsars, far more than can be individually inspected. Traditional methods for filtering these candidates, based upon the signal-to-noise ratio of the detection, cannot easily…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. J. Keith , R. P. Eatough , A. G. Lyne , M. Kramer , A. Possenti , F. Camilo , R. N. Manchester

In this paper, we present a novel artificial intelligence (AI) program that identifies pulsars from recent surveys using image pattern recognition with deep neural nets---the PICS (Pulsar Image-based Classification System) AI. The AI mimics…

Artificial intelligence methods are indispensable to identifying pulsars from large amounts of candidates. We develop a new pulsar identification system that utilizes the CoAtNet to score two-dimensional features of candidates, uses a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-25 NanNan Cai , JinLin Han , WeiCong Jing , ZeKai Zhang , DeJiang Zhou , Xue Chen

For fifty years astronomers have been searching for pulsar signals in observational data. Throughout this time the process of choosing detections worthy of investigation, so called candidate selection, has been effective, yielding thousands…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-22 R. J. Lyon

Pulsar searching with next-generation radio telescopes requires efficiently sifting through millions of candidates generated by search pipelines to identify the most promising ones. This challenge has motivated the utilization of Artificial…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-11 Qiuyang Fu , Mengyao Xue , Weiwei Zhu , N. D. R. Bhat , Kaichao Wu , Zihan Zhang , B. W. Meyers , Chia Min Tan , Youling Yue , Jiarui Niu , Lingqi Meng , Ziwei Wu , Ziyao Fang , Yukai Zhou , Jiawei Jin

Discovering pulsars is a significant and meaningful research topic in the field of radio astronomy. With the advent of astronomical instruments such as he Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in China, data volumes and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-24 Ping Guo , Fuqing Duan , Pei Wang , Yao Yao , Qian Yin , Xin Xin

Modern radio pulsar surveys produce a large volume of prospective candidates, the majority of which are polluted by human-created radio frequency interference or other forms of noise. Typically, large numbers of candidates need to be…

We present 75 pulsars discovered in the mid-latitude portion of the High Time Resolution Universe survey, 54 of which have full timing solutions. All the pulsars have spin periods greater than 100 ms, and none of those with timing solutions…

The search for pulsars produces a massive amount of data which needs to be processed and analyzed. The limited speed of manual observation necessitates the involvement of large numbers of people to keep up with data collection. This paper…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-20 Gurmehar Singh , Martin Nikolov , Jake North , Kalée Tock

Pulsars have been primarily detected by their narrow pulses or periodicity in time domain data. Interferometric surveys for pulsars are challenging due to the trade-off between beam sensitivity and beam size and the corresponding tradeoff…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-26 Jitendra Salal , Shriharsh P. Tendulkar , Visweshwar Ram Marthi

As performance of dedicated facilities continually improved, massive pulsar candidates are being received, which makes selecting valuable pulsar signals from candidates challenging. In this paper, we designed a deep convolutional neural…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Yuanchao Wang , Mingtao Li , Zhichen Pan , Jianhua Zheng

Searching for radio pulsars typically requires a bespoke software pipeline to efficiently make new discoveries. In this paper we describe the search process, provide a tool for installing pulsar software, and give an example of a pulsar…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-05 M. J. Keith

Pulsar searching is essential for the scientific research in the field of physics and astrophysics. As the development of the radio telescope, the exploding volume and it growth speed of candidates growth have brought about several…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-27 Qingguo Zeng , Xiangru Li , Haitao Lin

The Commensal Radio Astronomy Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) Survey (CRAFTS) utilizes the novel drift-scan commensal survey mode of FAST and can generate billions of pulsar candidate signals. The human experts…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-18 Hongfeng Wang , Weiwei Zhu , Ping Guo , Di Li , Sibo Feng , Qian Yin , Chenchen Miao , Zhenzhao Tao , Zhichen Pan , Pei Wang , Xin Zheng , Xiaodan Deng Zhijie Liu , Xiaoyao Xie , Xuhong Yu , Shanping You , Hui Zhang

In pulsar astronomy, detecting effective pulsar signals among numerous pulsar candidates is an important research topic. Starting from space X-ray pulsar signals, the two-dimensional autocorrelation profile map (2D-APM) feature modelling…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Longqi Wang , Jing Jin , Lu Liu , Yi Shen

In the last decade, over a million stars were monitored to detect transiting planets. Manual interpretation of potential exoplanet candidates is labor intensive and subject to human error, the results of which are difficult to quantify.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-20 Kyle A. Pearson , Leon Palafox , Caitlin A. Griffith

The SKA pulsar search pipeline will be used for real time detection of pulsars. Modern radio telescopes such as SKA will be generating petabytes of data in their full scale of operation. Hence experience-based and data-driven algorithms…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-10 Shashank Sanjay Bhat , Thiagaraj Prabu , Ben Stappers , Atul Ghalame , Snehanshu Saha , T. S. B Sudarshan , Zafiirah Hosenie

In our previous paper, we developed a technique for identifying pulsar candidates in interferometric radio images using their distinctive scintillation signatures. Building on this technique, the present study simulates a pulsar population…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-06 Jitendra Salal , Shriharsh P. Tendulkar , Visweshwar Ram Marthi

Improving survey specifications are causing an exponential rise in pulsar candidate numbers and data volumes. We study the candidate filters used to mitigate these problems during the past fifty years. We find that some existing methods…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 R. J. Lyon , B. W. Stappers , S. Cooper , J. M. Brooke , J. D. Knowles
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