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We present here a simple, systematic method for determining the correct global rotation count of a radio pulsar; an essential step for the derivation of an accurate phase-coherent ephemeris. We then build on this method by developing a new…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 Paulo C. C. Freire , Alessandro Ridolfi

The phenomenon of pulsar nulling, observed as the temporary inactivity of a pulsar, remains poorly understood both observationally and theoretically. Most observational studies that quantify nulling employ a variant of Ritchings (1976)'s…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-15 Akash Anumarlapudi , Joseph K. Swiggum , David L. Kaplan , Travis D. J. Fichtenbauer

We present high signal-to-noise ratio, multi-frequency polarization pulse profiles for 24 millisecond pulsars that are being observed as part of the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA) project. The pulsars are observed in three bands, centred…

Using observations from GMRT and FAST, we conducted multi-wavelength studies on PSR J1948+3540 and analyzed its intensity modulation characteristics in detail. We found that the intensity modulation of this pulsar exhibits broad…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-07 Kaige Chang , Na Wang , Feifei Kou , Wenming Yan , Jianping Yuan , Shijun Dang , Jumei Yao , Vishal Gajjar , Xia Zhou

Timing analysis of PSR J1705$-$1906 using data from Nanshan 25-m and Parkes 64-m radio telescopes, which span over fourteen years, shows that the pulsar exhibits significant proper motion, and rotation instability. We updated the astrometry…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-23 Y. L. Liu , J. P. Yuan , J. B. Wang , X. W. Liu , N. Wang , R. Yuen

We present a time-domain method to detect and correct spectral alterations of signals by employing statistical characterization of waveforms and a pattern-recognition procedure using simple Artificial Neural Networks. The proposed strategy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-29 Guillermo H. Bustos , Héctor H. Segnorile

Pulsars are known to manifest complex phenomena, such as nulling, sub-pulse drifting, and periodicity. Within the purview of this investigation, we have harnessed the wavelet analysis technique to scrutinize the multifaceted periodicities…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-19 Peng-Fu Tian , Ping Zhang , Wen Yang , Wei Wang , Pei Wang

We present timing solutions spanning nearly two decades for five redback (RB) systems found in globular clusters (GC), created using a novel technique that effectively "isolates" the pulsar. By accurately measuring the time of passage…

To model the periodicity of beats, state-of-the-art beat tracking systems use "post-processing trackers" (PPTs) that rely on several empirically determined global assumptions for tempo transition, which work well for music with a steady…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-22 Ching-Yu Chiu , Meinard Müller , Matthew E. P. Davies , Alvin Wen-Yu Su , Yi-Hsuan Yang

We report on the results of multi-frequency follow-up observations of three pulsars (PSRs J0026+6320, J2208+5500 and J2217+5733) discovered with the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT). These observations were carried out with the GMRT…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-07 Mayuresh P. Surnis , Bhal Chandra Joshi , Maura A. McLaughlin , Krishnakumar M. A. , Manoharan P. K. , Arun Naidu

We present an updated timing solution for the young, energetic pulsar PSR B1509-58 based on 21.3 years of radio timing data and 7.6 years of X-ray timing data. No glitches have occurred in this time span, in contrast to other well-studied…

This paper proposes a novel sparse principal component analysis algorithm with self-learning ability for successive modes, where synaptic intelligence is employed to measure the importance of variables and a regularization term is added to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Jingxin Zhang , Donghua Zhou , Maoyin Chen

Accurate motion estimation for tracking deformable tissues in echocardiography is essential for precise cardiac function measurements. While traditional methods like block matching or optical flow struggle with intricate cardiac motion,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Md Abulkalam Azad , John Nyberg , Håvard Dalen , Bjørnar Grenne , Lasse Lovstakken , Andreas Østvik

Timing results for the black-widow pulsar J2051-0827 are presented, using a 21-year dataset from four European Pulsar Timing Array telescopes and the Parkes radio telescope. This dataset, which is the longest published to date for a…

We describe a new and efficient technique which we call sideband or phase-modulation searching that allows one to detect short period binary pulsars in observations longer than the orbital period. The orbital motion of the pulsar during…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Scott M. Ransom , James M. Cordes , Stephen S. Eikenberry

We have carried out a sensitive radio pulsar survey along the northern Galactic plane ($50^{\circ} < l < 60^{\circ}$ and $|b| \lapp 2^{\circ}$) using the Parkes 20-cm multibeam system. We observed each position for 70-min on two separate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 D. R. Lorimer , F. Camilo , M. A. McLaughlin

We propose novel methods for predictive (sparse) PCA with spatially misaligned data. These methods identify principal component loading vectors that explain as much variability in the observed data as possible, while also ensuring the…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-09-04 Roman A. Jandarov , Lianne A. Sheppard , Paul D. Sampson , Adam A. Szpiro

Pulsar timing is a technique that uses the highly stable spin periods of neutron stars to investigate a wide range of topics in physics and astrophysics. Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) use sets of extremely well-timed pulsars as a Galaxy-scale…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-05 J. P. W. Verbiest , S. Oslowski , S. Burke-Spolaor

PSR J0751+1807 is a millisecond pulsar in a circular 6 hr binary system with a helium white dwarf secondary. Through high precision pulse timing measurements with the Arecibo and Effelsberg radio telescopes, we have detected the decay of…

Pulse profile stability in millisecond pulsars (MSPs) is a key factor in achieving high-precision timing essential for detecting nanohertz gravitational waves with Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs). In this work, we present a systematic analysis…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-17 Ankita Ghosh , Bhaswati Bhattacharyya , Rahul Sharan , Patrick Weltevrede , Jayanta Roy , Sangita Kumari