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We present initial results from the low-latitude Galactic plane region of the High Time Resolution Universe pulsar survey conducted at the Parkes 64-m radio telescope. We discuss the computational challenges arising from the processing of…

Dedicated 'Stage IV' observatories will soon observe the entire extragalactic sky, to measure the 'cosmic shear' distortion of galaxy shapes by weak gravitational lensing. To measure the apparent shapes of those galaxies, we present an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-08 Xiangchong Li , Yin Li , Richard Massey

As most of the companions in the double neutron star systems should be normal pulsars, the Fast Folding Algorithm (FFA), which is suitable for finding these long spin period pulsars, was used to search their possible radio signals. A time…

We present the results of processing an additional 44% of the High Time Resolution Universe South Low Latitude (HTRU-S LowLat) pulsar survey, the most sensitive blind pulsar survey of the southern Galactic plane to date. Our…

We have performed a new search for radio pulsars in archival data of the intermediate and high Galactic latitude parts of the Southern High Time Resolution Universe pulsar survey. This is the first time the entire dataset has been searched…

We conducted a sensitive acceleration search using Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) techniques on full-length and segmented data from 84 observations of the globular cluster M13 with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-15 Dejiang Yin , Lin Wang , Li-yun Zhang , Lei Qian , Baoda Li , Kuo Liu , Bo Peng , Yinfeng Dai , Yaowei Li , Zhichen Pan

We employed the Fast Folding Algorithm (FFA) on L-Band Globular Cluster (GC) observations taken with Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) to search for new pulsars, especially those with a long rotational period. We…

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

Searching for gravitational waves in pulsar timing array data is computationally intensive. The data is unevenly sampled, and the noise is heteroscedastic, necessitating the use of a time-domain likelihood function with attendant expensive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-22 Bence Bécsy , Neil J. Cornish , Matthew C. Digman

The Fast Folding Algorithm (FFA) is a phase-coherent search technique for periodic signals. It has rarely been used in radio pulsar searches, having been historically supplanted by the less computationally expensive Fast Fourier Transform…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-12 V. Morello , E. D. Barr , B. W. Stappers , E. F. Keane , A. G. Lyne

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…

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

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

We present the discovery of 24 pulsars in 15 Globular Clusters (GCs) using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). These include the first pulsar discoveries in M2, M10, and M14. Most of the new systems are either…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-21 Zhichen Pan , Lei Qian , Xiaoyun Ma , Kuo Liu , Lin Wang , Jintao Luo , Zhen Yan , Scott Ransom , Duncan Lorimer , Di Li , Peng Jiang

Binary pulsars can be used to probe Galactic potential gradients through calculating their line-of-sight accelerations. We present the first data release of direct line-of-sight acceleration measurements for 29 binary pulsars. We validate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-12 Abigail Moran , Chiara M. F. Mingarelli , Ken Van Tilburg , Deborah Good

Time-domain radio astronomy utilizes a harmonic sum algorithm as part of the Fourier domain periodicity search, this type of search is used to discover single pulsars. The harmonic sum algorithm is also used as part of the Fourier domain…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-07 Karel Adámek , Wesley Armour

The detection of non-repeating or irregular events in time-domain radio astronomy has gained importance over the last decade due to the discovery of fast radio bursts. Existing or upcoming radio telescopes are gathering more and more data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-28 Karel Adamek , Wesley Armour

Pulsar searches are computationally demanding efforts to discover dispersed periodic signals in time- and frequency-resolved data from radio telescopes. The complexity and computational expense of simultaneously determining the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 Lars Künkel , Rajat M. Thomas , Joris P. W. Verbiest

The F-statistic is an established method to search for continuous gravitational waves from spinning neutron stars. Prix et al. (2011) introduced a variant for transient quasi-monochromatic signals. Possible astrophysical scenarios for such…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-20 David Keitel , Gregory Ashton

It is difficult to discover pulsars via their gamma-ray emission because current instruments typically detect fewer than one photon per million rotations. This creates a significant computing challenge for isolated pulsars, where the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-23 L. Nieder , B. Allen , C. J. Clark , H. J. Pletsch