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As performance of dedicated facilities continually improved, massive pulsar candidates are being received, which makes selecting valuable pulsar signals from candidates challenging. In this paper, we designed a deep convolutional neural…

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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

In this paper, we present a novel artificial intelligence (AI) program that identifies pulsars from recent surveys using image pattern recognition with deep neural nets---the PICS (Pulsar Image-based Classification System) AI. The AI mimics…

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

Machine learning methods are increasingly helping astronomers identify new radio pulsars. However, they require a large amount of labelled data, which is time consuming to produce and biased. Here we describe a Semi-Supervised Generative…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-14 Vishnu Balakrishnan , David Champion , Ewan Barr , Michael Kramer , Rahul Sengar , Matthew Bailes

Pulsar searching is essential for the scientific research in the field of physics and astrophysics. As the development of the radio telescope, the exploding volume and it growth speed of candidates growth have brought about several…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-27 Qingguo Zeng , Xiangru Li , Haitao Lin

Radio pulsar surveys are producing many more pulsar candidates than can be inspected by human experts in a practical length of time. Here we present a technique to automatically identify credible pulsar candidates from pulsar surveys using…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 R. P. Eatough , N. Molkenthin , M. Kramer , A. Noutsos , M. J. Keith , B. W. Stappers , A. G. Lyne

In pulsar astronomy, detecting effective pulsar signals among numerous pulsar candidates is an important research topic. Starting from space X-ray pulsar signals, the two-dimensional autocorrelation profile map (2D-APM) feature modelling…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Longqi Wang , Jing Jin , Lu Liu , Yi Shen

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

Pulsar surveys generate millions of candidates per run, overwhelming manual inspection. This thesis builds a deep learning pipeline for radio pulsar candidate selection that fuses array-derived features with image diagnostics. From…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-31 Manideep Pendyala

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

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

Pulsar detection has become an active research topic in radio astronomy recently. One of the essential procedures for pulsar detection is pulsar candidate sifting (PCS), a procedure of finding out the potential pulsar signals in a survey.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-29 Haitao Lin , Xiangru Li

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

Pulsar search with time-domain observation is very computationally expensive and data volume will be enormous with the next generation telescopes such as the Square Kilometre Array. We apply artificial neural networks (ANNs), a machine…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-17 Naoyuki Yonemaru , Keitaro Takahashi , Hiroki Kumamoto , Shi Dai , Shintaro Yoshiura , Shinsuke Ideguchi

The discovery of pulsars is of great significance in the field of physics and astronomy. As the astronomical equipment produces a large amount of pulsar data, an algorithm for automatically identifying pulsars becomes urgent. We propose a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 ShiChuan Zhang , XiangCong Kong , YueYing Zhou , LingYao Chen , XiaoYing Zheng , Chun-Ling Xu , Bao-Qiang Lao , Tao An

Quantum Machine Learning is a new computational tool that combines the quantum properties from quantum computing with the pattern recognition from machine learning. In this paper, we apply the Variational Quantum Classifier algorithm to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-22 Anna B. M. Souza , Clebson Cruz , Marcelo A. Moret

The SKA pulsar search pipeline will be used for real time detection of pulsars. Modern radio telescopes such as SKA will be generating petabytes of data in their full scale of operation. Hence experience-based and data-driven algorithms…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-10 Shashank Sanjay Bhat , Thiagaraj Prabu , Ben Stappers , Atul Ghalame , Snehanshu Saha , T. S. B Sudarshan , Zafiirah Hosenie

Well-known quantum machine learning techniques, namely quantum kernel assisted support vector machines (QSVMs) and quantum convolutional neural networks (QCNNs), are applied to the binary classification of pulsars. In this comparitive study…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-09 Donovan Slabbert , Matt Lourens , Francesco Petruccione

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
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