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A new high time resolution observing mode for the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is described, enabling full polarimetric observations with up to 30.72 MHz of bandwidth and a time resolution of ~0.8 $\mu$s. This mode makes use of a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 S. J. McSweeney , S. M. Ord , N. D. R. Bhat , B. W. Meyers , S. E. Tremblay , J. Jones , B. Crosse , K. R. Smith

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

The sensitivity and wide area reached by ongoing and future wide-field optical surveys allows for the detection of an increasing number of galaxy clusters uniquely through their weak lensing (WL) signal. This motivates the development of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-18 G. Leroy , S. Pires , G. W. Pratt , C. Giocoli

This work is part of ongoing efforts to detect Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) in a spectral window below 300 MHz. We used an image-based method based on the pilot study of Tingay et al. 2015, scaled up…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-06 Ian Kemp , Steven Tingay , Stuart Midgley , Daniel Mitchell

Modified versions of two "standard" pulsar search techniques are presented that allow large-scale searches for pulsations in long duration high-energy data sets using relatively modest amounts of computer time. For small numbers of photons…

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

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

Discovering pulsars is a significant and meaningful research topic in the field of radio astronomy. With the advent of astronomical instruments such as he Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in China, data volumes and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-24 Ping Guo , Fuqing Duan , Pei Wang , Yao Yao , Qian Yin , Xin Xin

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

We present an overview of the Southern-sky MWA Rapid Two-metre (SMART) pulsar survey that exploits the MWA's large field of view and voltage capture system to survey the sky south of 30 degree in declination for pulsars and fast transients…

In radio astronomy, the science output of a telescope is often limited by computational resources. This is especially true for transient and technosignature surveys that need to search high-resolution data across a large parameter space.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-11 Danny C. Price

We present techniques developed to calibrate and correct Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) low frequency (72-300 MHz) radio observations for polarimetry. The extremely wide field-of-view, excellent instantaneous (u, v)-coverage and…

We report the first astrophysical application of the technique of wide-field Interplanetary Scintillation (IPS) with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). This powerful technique allows us to identify and measure sub-arcsecond compact…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-10 R. Chhetri , J. Morgan , R. D. Ekers , J-P Macquart , E. M. Sadler , M. Giroletti , J. R. Callingham , S. J. Tingay

We present results from the first all-sky radio survey in circular polarisation. The survey uses the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) to cover 30900 sq. deg., over declinations south of +30$^{\circ}$ and north of -86$^{\circ}$ centred at 200…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-06 Emil Lenc , Tara Murphy , Christene R. Lynch , David L. Kaplan , Suinan Zhang

We describe the parameters of a low-frequency all-sky survey of compact radio sources using Interplanetary Scintillation (IPS), undertaken with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). While this survey gives important complementary information…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-08 J. S. Morgan , J-P. Macquart , R. Chhetri , R. D. Ekers , S. J. Tingay , E. M. Sadler

The standard Bayesian technique for searching pulsar timing data for gravitational wave (GW) bursts with memory (BWMs) using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling is very computationally expensive to perform. In this paper, we explain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-02 Jerry Sun , Paul T. Baker , Aaron D. Johnson , Dustin R. Madison , Xavier Siemens

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

The search for pulsars in a sample of pulsar candidates found based on a multi-year survey conducted with low (6 channels; sampling 0.1s) time-frequency resolution on declinations -9^o < \delta < +42^o was carried out. A Large Phased Array…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-26 S. A. Tyul'bashev , M. A. Kitaeva , G. E. Tyul'basheva

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) detect low-frequency gravitational waves (GWs) by looking for correlated deviations in pulse arrival times. Current Bayesian searches use Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods, which struggle to sample the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Gabriel E. Freedman , Aaron D. Johnson , Rutger van Haasteren , Sarah J. Vigeland

We describe several new techniques which accelerate Bayesian searches for continuous gravitational-wave emission from supermassive black-hole binaries using pulsar timing arrays. These techniques mitigate the problematic increase of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-25 Stephen Taylor , Justin Ellis , Jonathan Gair

Image-based searches have become a complementary approach for identifying pulsars, particularly at MHz frequencies where scattering and high dispersion measures affect high-time resolution observations. In this work, we searched the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-04 Silvia Mantovanini , N. Hurley-Walker , G. Anderson , K. Ross , S. W. Duchesne , T. J. Galvin