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Machine learning is a useful tool for identifying radio pulses from cosmic-ray air showers and for cleaning such pulses from radio background. This can lower the detection threshold and increase the accuracy for the pulse time and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-28 Frank G. Schroeder , Abdul Rehman

Since the discovery of pulsars, dozens of surveys have already been conducted with their searches. In the course of surveys in the sky, areas from thousands to tens of thousands of square degrees are explored. Despite repeated observations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-10 S. A. Tyul'bashev , G. E. Tyul'basheva , M. A. Kitaeva

On the Large Phased Array (LPA) of Lebedev Physics Institute (LPI), a search for pulsars outside the Galaxy plane was carried out in a 300 sq. deg area. The search with a sensitivity 5-10 times better than that of previously conducted…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-03 S. A. Tyul'bashev , G. E. Tyul'basheva

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

Searches for radio pulsars are becoming increasingly difficult because of a rise in impulsive man-made terrestrial radio-frequency interference. Here we present a new technique, zero-DM filtering, which can significantly reduce the effects…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-13 R. P. Eatough , E. F. Keane , A. G. Lyne

Pulsar search is always the basis of pulsar navigation, gravitational wave detection and other research topics. Currently, the volume of pulsar candidates collected by Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) shows an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-15 Zi-Yi You , Yun-Rong Pan , Zhi Ma , Li Zhang , Shuo Xiao , Dan-Dan Zhang , Shi-Jun Dang , Ru-Shuang Zhao , Pei Wang , Ai-Jun Dong , Jia-Tao Jiang , Ji-Bing Leng , Wei-An Li , Si-Yao Li

We have used the Arecibo Radio Telescope to search for millisecond pulsars in two intermediate Galactic latitude regions (7 deg < | b | < 20 deg) accessible to this telescope. For these latitudes the useful millisecond pulsar search volume…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jose Navarro , Stuart Anderson , Paulo C. Freire

Ensemble models achieve state-of-the-art performance on prediction tasks, but usually require aggregating a large number of weak learners. This can hinder deployment, interpretability, and downstream tasks such as robustness verification.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Fabian Akkerman , Julien Ferry , Théo Guyard , Thibaut Vidal

This review presents a comprehensive survey and benchmark of pulse shape discrimination (PSD) algorithms for radiation detection, classifying nearly sixty methods into statistical (time-domain, frequency-domain, neural network-based) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Haoran Liu , Yihan Zhan , Mingzhe Liu , Yanhua Liu , Peng Li , Zhuo Zuo , Bingqi Liu , Runxi Liu

An essential metric for the quality of a particle-identification experiment is its statistical power to discriminate between signal and background. Pulse shape discrimination (PSD) is a basic method for this purpose in many nuclear,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-05-17 Shubham Dutta , Sayan Ghosh , Satyaki Bhattacharya , Satyajit Saha

With a collecting area of 70 000 m^2, the Five hundred metre Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) will allow for great advances in pulsar astronomy. We have performed simulations to estimate the number of previously unknown pulsars FAST will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Smits , D. R. Lorimer , M. Kramer , R. Manchester , B. Stappers , C. J. Jin , R. D. Nan , D. Li

The search of pulsars in monitoring observations being carried out for 5 years using LPA LPI radio telescope was done in 96 spatial beams covering daily 17,000 square degrees. Five new pulsars were detected. Candidates into pulsars were…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-21 S. A. Tyul'bashev , M. A. Kitaeva , V. S. Tyul'bashev , V. M. Malofeev , G. E. Tyul'basheva

Over the past few decades, the measurement precision of some pulsar-timing experiments has advanced from ~10 us to ~10 ns, revealing many subtle phenomena. Such high precision demands both careful data handling and sophisticated timing…

Discovery of pulsars is one of the main goals for large radio telescopes. The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), that incorporates an L-band 19-beam receiver with a system temperature of about 20~K, is the most…

The Parkes Multibeam (PM) survey has found nearly 50% of the >1400 known pulsars and detected 20% of the pulsars in binary systems (75% within the survey area), few of these are millisecond pulsars with orbits of less than one day. It is…

We report on the results of an image-based search for pulsar candidates toward the Galactic bulge. We used mosaic images from the MeerKAT radio telescope, that were taken as part of a 173 deg**2 survey of the bulge and Galactic center of…

We propose a pulsar candidate cross matching algorithm to sift radio pulsar search candidates from repeated observations of the same sky location such as globular clusters, high energy sources, or supernova remnants. Our method uses both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-12 Qiuyu Yu , Yujie Wang , Zhichen Pan , Zhongli Zhang , Lei Qian , Zhongzu Wu , Ralph P. Eatough , Dejiang Yin , Baoda Li , Yujie Chen , Yinfeng Dai , Yifeng Li

The on-going PALFA survey at the Arecibo Observatory began in 2004 and is searching for radio pulsars in the Galactic plane at 1.4 GHz. Observations since 2009 have been made with new wider-bandwidth spectrometers than were previously…

Searches for millisecond-duration, dispersed single pulses have become a standard tool used during radio pulsar surveys in the last decade. They have enabled the discovery of two new classes of sources: rotating radio transients and fast…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-17 D. Michilli , J. W. T. Hessels , R. J. Lyon , C. M. Tan , C. Bassa , S. Cooper , V. I. Kondratiev , S. Sanidas , B. W. Stappers , J. van Leeuwen

Traditional pulsar surveys have primarily employed time-domain periodicity searches. However, these methods are susceptible to effects like scattering, eclipses and orbital motion. At lower radio frequencies (<= 300 MHz), factors such as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-20 S. Sett , M. Sokolowski , E. Lenc , N. D. R. Bhat