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Machine learning methods are increasingly helping astronomers identify new radio pulsars. However, they require a large amount of labelled data, which is time consuming to produce and biased. Here we describe a Semi-Supervised Generative…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-14 Vishnu Balakrishnan , David Champion , Ewan Barr , Michael Kramer , Rahul Sengar , Matthew Bailes

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

Pulsar detection has become an active research topic in radio astronomy recently. One of the essential procedures for pulsar detection is pulsar candidate sifting (PCS), a procedure of finding out the potential pulsar signals in a survey.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-29 Haitao Lin , Xiangru Li

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

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…

Pulsar candidate sifting is an essential process for discovering new pulsars. It aims to search for the most promising pulsar candidates from an all-sky survey, such as High Time Resolution Universe (HTRU), Green Bank Northern Celestial Cap…

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

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

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

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

Pulsar surveys generate millions of candidates per run, overwhelming manual inspection. This thesis builds a deep learning pipeline for radio pulsar candidate selection that fuses array-derived features with image diagnostics. From…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-31 Manideep Pendyala

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

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

Searching for extraterrestrial, transient signals in astronomical data sets is an active area of current research. However, machine learning techniques are lacking in the literature concerning single-pulse detection. This paper presents a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 Thomas Devine , Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova , Maura McLaughlin

Radio pulsar surveys are producing many more pulsar candidates than can be inspected by human experts in a practical length of time. Here we present a technique to automatically identify credible pulsar candidates from pulsar surveys using…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 R. P. Eatough , N. Molkenthin , M. Kramer , A. Noutsos , M. J. Keith , B. W. Stappers , A. G. Lyne

In this work, we explore the possibility of using probabilistic learning to identify pulsar candidates. We make use of Deep Gaussian Process (DGP) and Deep Kernel Learning (DKL). Trained on a balanced training set in order to avoid the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Sambatra Andrianomena

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

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

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

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…

It is an active topic to investigate the schemes based on machine learning (ML) methods for detecting pulsars as the data volume growing exponentially in modern surveys. To improve the detection performance, input features into an ML model…

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