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In this paper we describe and demonstrate a C++ code written to determine the trajectory of particles traversing oriented single crystals and a CUDA code written to evaluate the radiation spectra from charged particles with arbitrary…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-24 Christian Flohr Nielsen

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

The search of fast radio burst (FRB) is a hot topic in current radio astronomy study. In this work, we carry out single pulse search for a VLBI pulsar observation data set using both auto spectrum and cross spectrum search method. The cross…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 Lei Liu , Weimin Zheng , Zhen Yan , Juan Zhang

We present a highly parallel implementation of the cross-correlation of time-series data using graphics processing units (GPUs), which is scalable to hundreds of independent inputs and suitable for the processing of signals from "Large-N"…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-02 M. A. Clark , P. C. La Plante , L. J. Greenhill

We present a novel two-stage approach which combines unsupervised and supervised machine learning to automatically identify and classify single pulses in radio pulsar search data. In the first stage, we identify astrophysical pulse…

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The identification, and subsequent discovery, of fast radio transients through blind-search surveys requires a large amount of processing power, in worst cases scaling as $\mathcal{O}(N^3)$. For this reason, survey data are generally…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-04 Alessio Magro , Aris Karastergiou , Stefano Salvini , Benjamin Mort , Fred Dulwich , Kristian Zarb Adami

Astronomical radio bursts disperse while traveling through the interstellar medium. To optimally detect a short-duration signal within a frequency band, we have to precisely compensate for the pulse dispersion, which is a computationally…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 Barak Zackay , Eran O. Ofek

Binary pulsars are an important target for radio surveys because they present a natural laboratory for a wide range of astrophysics for example testing general relativity, including detection of gravitational waves. The orbital motion of a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-17 Karel Adámek , Jan Novotný , Sofia Dimoudi , Wesley Armour

Exploration of the time-domain radio sky has huge potential for advancing our knowledge of the dynamic universe. Past surveys have discovered large numbers of pulsars, rotating radio transients and other transient radio phenomena; however,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-02 Benjamin R. Barsdell , Matthew Bailes , David G. Barnes , Christopher J. Fluke

Dedispersion, the removal of deleterious smearing of impulsive signals by the interstellar matter, is one of the most intensive processing steps in any radio survey for pulsars and fast transients. We here present a study of the…

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An efficient algorithm is presented for the identification of short bursts of gravitational radiation in the data from broad-band interferometric detectors. The algorithm consists of three steps: pixels of the time-frequency representation…

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We report the detection of 72 new pulses from the repeating fast radio burst FRB 121102 in Breakthrough Listen C-band (4-8 GHz) observations at the Green Bank Telescope. The new pulses were found with a convolutional neural network in data…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-31 Yunfan Gerry Zhang , Vishal Gajjar , Griffin Foster , Andrew Siemion , James Cordes , Casey Law , Yu Wang

Pulse-profile modeling (PPM) of thermal X-ray emission from rotation-powered millisecond pulsars enables simultaneous constraints on the mass $M$, radius $R$, and hence the equation of state of cold, dense matter. However, Bayesian PPM has…

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The field of remote sensing is nowadays faced with huge amounts of data. While this offers a variety of exciting research opportunities, it also yields significant challenges regarding both computation time and space requirements. In…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Malte von Mehren , Fabian Gieseke , Jan Verbesselt , Sabina Rosca , Stéphanie Horion , Achim Zeileis

Various pulse shape discrimination methods have been used to solve the neutron-gamma discrimination problem. But most of them are limited to off-line calculation due to the computation amount and FPGA performance. In order to realize real…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-01-26 Haoqi Ye , Ge Jin , Lian Chen

Astrophysical radio transients are excellent probes of extreme physical processes originating from compact sources within our Galaxy and beyond. Radio frequency signals emitted from these objects provide a means to study the intervening…

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The increased bandwidth coupled with the large numbers of antennas of several new radio telescope arrays has resulted in an exponential increase in the amount of data that needs to be recorded and processed. In many cases, it is necessary…

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