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We present and implement the concept of the Fourier-domain dedispersion (FDD) algorithm, a brute-force incoherent dedispersion algorithm. This algorithm corrects the frequency-dependent dispersion delays in the arrival time of radio…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 C. G. Bassa , J. W. Romein , B. Veenboer , S. van der Vlugt , S. J. Wijnholds

The Palomar High-precision Astrometric Search for Exoplanet Systems (PHASES) monitored 51 sub-arcsecond binary systems to determine precision binary orbits, study the geometries of triple and quadruple star systems, and discover previously…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Matthew W. Muterspaugh , Benjamin F. Lane , S. R. Kulkarni , Maciej Konacki , Bernard F. Burke , M. M. Colavita , M. Shao , Sloane J. Wiktorowicz , J. O'Connell

Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) is an essential tool in scientific and engineering computation. The increasing demand for mixed-precision FFT has made it possible to utilize half-precision floating-point (FP16) arithmetic for faster speed and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Binrui Li , Shenggan Cheng , James Lin

The existing single-pulse search algorithms for fast radio bursts (FRBs) do not adequately consider the frequency bandpass pattern of the pulse, rendering them incomplete for the relatively narrow-spectrum detection of pulses. We present a…

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-04 Bo Peng , Qian-Chen Hu , Qiang Li , Lei Qian , Xiao-Bo Dong , Shi-Lin Peng , Ze-Lin Wang

Some pulsating stars are good clocks. When they are found in binary stars, the frequencies of their luminosity variations are modulated by the Doppler effect caused by orbital motion. For each pulsation frequency this manifests itself as a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Hiromoto Shibahashi , Donald W. Kurtz

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

We developed a GPU based single-pulse search pipeline (GSP) with candidate-archiving database. Largely based upon the infrastructure of Open source pulsar search and analysis toolkit (PRESTO), GSP implements GPU acceleration of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-19 Shanping You , Pei Wang , Xuhong Yu , Xiaoyao Xie , Di Li , Zhijie Liu , Zhichen Pan , Youling Yue , Lei Qian , Bin Zhang , Zonghao Chen

Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) experiments are expected to be sensitive to gravitational waves (GWs) emitted by individual supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) inspiralling along eccentric orbits. We compare the computational cost of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-03 Abhimanyu Susobhanan

We have used the 150 MHz radio continuum survey (TGSS ADR) from the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) to search for phase-averaged emission toward all well-localized radio pulsars north of -53deg Declination. We detect emission toward…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-05 D. A. Frail , P. Jagannathan , K. P. Mooley , H. T. Intema

We describe a comprehensive pulsar monitoring campaign for the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the {\em Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope} (formerly GLAST). The detection and study of pulsars in gamma rays give insights into the populations of…

Observations of low-frequency gravitational waves will require the highest possible timing precision from an array of the most spin-stable pulsars. We can improve the sensitivity of a pulsar timing array (PTA) to different…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-28 M. T. Lam

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

We introduce a new computational technique for searching for faint moving sources in astronomical images. Starting from a maximum likelihood estimate for the probability of the detection of a source within a series of images, we develop a…

We introduce FPG-NAS, a FLOPs-aware Gated Differentiable Neural Architecture Search framework for efficient 6DoF object pose estimation. Estimating 3D rotation and translation from a single image has been widely investigated yet remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Nassim Ali Ousalah , Peyman Rostami , Anis Kacem , Enjie Ghorbel , Emmanuel Koumandakis , Djamila Aouada

Pulsar search is always the basis of pulsar navigation, gravitational wave detection and other research topics. Currently, the volume of pulsar candidates collected by Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) shows an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-15 Zi-Yi You , Yun-Rong Pan , Zhi Ma , Li Zhang , Shuo Xiao , Dan-Dan Zhang , Shi-Jun Dang , Ru-Shuang Zhao , Pei Wang , Ai-Jun Dong , Jia-Tao Jiang , Ji-Bing Leng , Wei-An Li , Si-Yao Li

Finding and characterizing gravitational waves from individual supermassive black hole binaries is a central goal of pulsar timing array experiments, which will require analysis methods that can be efficient on our rapidly growing datasets.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-28 Bence Bécsy

The Pulsar Arecibo L-Band Feed Array (PALFA) survey, the most sensitive blind search for radio pulsars yet conducted, is ongoing at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. The vast majority of the 180 pulsars discovered by PALFA have spin…

Largely due to their increased native capacity for numerical intensity and power efficiency, reduced-precision floating-point computing resources, primarily used in artificial intelligence (AI) applications, have expanded at a greater rate…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Harun Bayraktar , Cole Brower , John Gunnels , Greg Henry , Cherin Joseph , Jack Kosaian , Dmitry Lyakh , Lukas Mosimann , Victor Podlozhnyuk , Addison Richards , Paul Springer , Haicheng Wu

We present a robust approach to incorporating models for the time-variable broadening of the pulse profile due to scattering in the ionized interstellar medium into profile-domain pulsar timing analysis. We use this approach to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-12 L. Lentati , M. Kerr , S. Dai , R. M. Shannon , G. Hobbs , S. Oslowski