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Synthesis of single-wavelength temporal phase-shifting algorithms (PSA) for interferometry is well-known and firmly based on the frequency transfer function (FTF) paradigm. Here we extend the single-wavelength FTF-theory to dual and…

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In many data classification problems, there is no linear relationship between an explanatory and the dependent variables. Instead, there may be ranges of the input variable for which the observed outcome is signficantly more or less likely.…

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We present a method by using the phase characteristics of radio observation data for pulsar search and candidate identification. The phase characteristics are relations between the pulsar signal and the phase correction in the…

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Pattern matching techniques like matched filtering will be used for online extraction of gravitational wave signals buried inside detector noise. This involves cross correlating the detector output with hundreds of thousands of templates…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Anand S. Sengupta , Sanjeev V. Dhurandhar , Albert Lazzarini , Tom Prince

The sensitivity of blind gamma-ray pulsar searches in multiple years worth of photon data, as from the Fermi LAT, is primarily limited by the finite computational resources available. Addressing this "needle in a haystack" problem, we here…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-10-17 Holger J. Pletsch , Colin J. Clark

A pulsar dynamic spectrum is an inline digital hologram of the interstellar medium; it encodes information on the propagation paths by which signals have travelled from source to telescope. To decode the hologram it is necessary to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 Stefan Osłowski , Mark A. Walker

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

The search for gravitational waves using Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) is a computationally expensive complex analysis that involves source-specific noise studies. As more pulsars are added to the arrays, this stage of PTA analysis will…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-28 Lorenzo Speri , Nataliya K. Porayko , Mikel Falxa , Siyuan Chen , Jonathan R. Gair , Alberto Sesana , Stephen R. Taylor

We present fBLS -- a novel fast-folding technique to search for transiting planets, based on the fast-folding algorithm (FFA), which is extensively used in pulsar astronomy. For a given lightcurve with $N$ data points, fBLS simultaneously…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-13 Sahar Shahaf , Barak Zackay , Tsevi Mazeh , Simchon Faigler , Oryna Ivashtenko

Detecting fast radio bursts (FRBs) requires software pipelines to search for dispersed single pulses of emission in radio telescope data. In order to enable an unbiased estimation of the underlying FRB population, it is important to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Hao Qiu , Evan F. Keane , Keith W. Bannister , Clancy W. James , Ryan M. Shannon

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project will be the world largest radio telescope array. With its large number of antennas, the number of signals that need to be processed is dramatic. One important element of the SKA's Central Signal…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Haomiao Wang , Prabu Thiagaraj , Oliver Sinnen

The detection of fast radio bursts (FRBs) in radio astronomy is a complex task due to the challenges posed by radio frequency interference (RFI) and signal dispersion in the interstellar medium. Traditional search algorithms are often…

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A fitness assignment process transforms the features (such as the objective value) of a candidate solution to a scalar fitness, which then is the basis for selection. Under Frequency Fitness Assignment (FFA), the fitness corresponding to an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Thomas Weise , Zhize Wu , Xinlu Li , Yan Chen , Jörg Lässig

Supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) are expected to emit continuous gravitational waves in the pulsar timing array (PTA) frequency band ($10^{-9}$--$10^{-7}$ Hz). The development of data analysis techniques aimed at efficient…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Justin Ellis , Xavier Siemens , Jolien Creighton

We revisit the popular \emph{delayed deterministic finite automaton} (\ddfa{}) compression algorithm introduced by Kumar~et~al.~[SIGCOMM 2006] for compressing deterministic finite automata (DFAs) used in intrusion detection systems. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Philip Bille , Inge Li Gørtz , Max Rishøj Pedersen

Intrinsic Frequency (IF) has recently been introduced as an ample signal processing method for analyzing carotid and aortic pulse pressure tracings. The IF method has also been introduced as an effective approach for the analysis of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-03 Peyman Tavallali , Hana Koorehdavoudi , Joanna Krupa

Fluid antenna multiple access (FAMA) is an emerging technology in massive access designed to meet the demands of future wireless communication networks by naturally mitigating multiuser interference through the utilization of the fluid…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Hanjiang Hong , Kai-Kit Wong , Xusheng Zhu , Hao Xu , Han Xiao , Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Hyundong Shin

The matched filter (MF) is one of the most popular and reliable techniques to the detect signals of known structure and amplitude smaller than the level of the contaminating noise. Under the assumption of stationary Gaussian noise, MF…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-30 Roberto Vio , Clara Verges , Paola Andreani

Astrophysical time series often contain periodic signals. The large and growing volume of time series data from photometric surveys demands computationally efficient methods for detecting and characterizing such signals. The most efficient…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-09 John Hoffman , Jacob Vanderplas , Joel Hartman , Gaspar Bakos

Radio searches for extraterrestrial intelligence have mainly targeted the discovery of narrowband continuous-wave beacons and artificially dispersed broadband bursts. Periodic pulse trains, in comparison to the above technosignature…

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