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[Abridged] We present the results of a highly parallel Kepler equation solver using the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) on a commercial nVidia GeForce 280GTX and the "Compute Unified Device Architecture" programming environment. We apply…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-17 Eric B. Ford

By January 2025, 60 pulsars were discovered by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope globular cluster (GC) pulsar survey (GC FANS), with spin periods spanning 1.98 ms to 3960.72 ms. Of these, 55 are millisecond pulsars…

The detection of exoplanets with the radial velocity method consists in detecting variations of the stellar velocity caused by an unseen sub-stellar companion. Instrumental errors, irregular time sampling, and different noise sources…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-06 L. A. Nieto , R. F. Díaz

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will observe $\sim$150~million stars brighter than $T_{\rm mag} \approx 16$, with photometric precision from 60~ppm to 3~percent, enabling an array of exoplanet and stellar astrophysics…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Ryan J. Oelkers , Keivan G. Stassun

We report on a discovery of a promising candidate as a black widow millisecond pulsar binary, 4FGL J0336.0+7502, which shows many pulsar-like properties in the 4FGL-DR2 catalog. Within the 95% error region of the LAT source, we identified…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-28 Kwan-Lok Li , Y. X. Jane Yap , Chung Yue Hui , Albert K. H. Kong

I describe a computationally simple, efficient, and sensitive method to search long observations for pulsars in binary systems. The technique looks for orbitally induced sidebands in the power spectrum around a nominal spin frequency,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Scott M. Ransom

In this paper, we present a framework for assessing the effect of non-stationary Gaussian noise and radio frequency interference (RFI) on the signal to noise ratio, the number of false positives detected per true positive and the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-19 E. van Heerden , A. Karastergiou , S. J. Roberts

In this paper, we propose a mixed-precision convolution unit architecture which supports different integer and floating point (FP) precisions. The proposed architecture is based on low-bit inner product units and realizes higher precision…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Hamzah Abdel-Aziz , Ali Shafiee , Jong Hoon Shin , Ardavan Pedram , Joseph H. Hassoun

Compared with traditional model-based fault detection and classification (FDC) methods, deep neural networks (DNN) prove to be effective for the aerospace sensors FDC problems. However, time being consumed in training the DNN is excessive,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Zhongzhi Li , Yunmei Zhao , Jinyi Ma , Jianliang Ai , Yiqun Dong

3D intelligence leverages rich 3D features and stands as a promising frontier in AI, with 3D rendering fundamental to many downstream applications. 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), an emerging high-quality 3D rendering method, requires…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Sixu Li , Ben Keller , Yingyan Celine Lin , Brucek Khailany

Neural architecture search (NAS) with an accuracy predictor that predicts the accuracy of candidate architectures has drawn increasing attention due to its simplicity and effectiveness. Previous works usually employ neural network-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Renqian Luo , Xu Tan , Rui Wang , Tao Qin , Enhong Chen , Tie-Yan Liu

This paper introduces a phase tracking method for planetary radio science research with computational algorithm implemented fo r NVIDIA GPUs. In contrast to the phase-locked loop (PPL) phase counting method used in traditional Doppler data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-23 Nianchuan Jian , Dmitry Mikushin , Jianguo Yan

We discuss a multimessenger strategy to detect radio pulses from Galactic binary neutron stars in a very tight orbit with the period shorter than 10 min. On one hand, all-sky surveys by radio instruments are inefficient for detecting faint…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-31 Koutarou Kyutoku , Yuki Nishino , Naoki Seto

The Subaru Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) is a massively-multiplexed fiber-fed optical and near-infrared 3-arm spectrograph (N_fiber=2400, 380<lambda<1260nm, 1.3 degree diameter FoV), offering unique opportunities in survey astronomy. Here…

We present high-precision TESS photometry of V421 Peg (TIC 301747091), an early F-type eclipsing binary containing a candidate $\gamma$ Dor component. The observed short-cadence data allow the detection of pulsation signals, along with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-02 Jae Woo Lee

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

Abbreviated: We investigate the potential of detecting the gravitational wave from individual binary black hole systems using pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) and calculate the accuracy for determining the GW properties. This is done in a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 K. J. Lee , N. Wex , M. Kramer , B. W. Stappers , C. G. Bassa , G. H. Janssen , R. Karuppusamy , R. Smits

Searching for gravitational waves from stellar-mass binary black holes with LISA remains a challenging open problem. Conventional template-bank approaches to the search are impossible due to the prohibitive number of templates that would be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-22 Diganta Bandopadhyay , Christopher J. Moore

We present a fast algorithm for computing the diffracted field from arbitrary binary (sharp-edged) planar apertures and occulters in the scalar Fresnel approximation, for up to moderately high Fresnel numbers ($\lesssim 10^3$). It uses a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-18 Alex H. Barnett

We are carrying out the GPPS survey by using the FAST, the most sensitive systematic pulsar survey in the Galactic plane. In addition to about 500 pulsars already discovered through normal periodical search, we report here the discovery of…