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Detection of short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) is critically important for the research of compact object mergers and multi-messenger astrophysics, but a significant part of SGRBs fall below the trigger threshold of GRB detectors, and thus are…

We investigate whether a novel method of quantum machine learning (QML) can identify anomalous events in X-ray light curves as transient events and apply it to detect such events from the XMM-Newton 4XMM-DR14 catalog. The architecture we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-14 Taiki Kawamuro , Shinya Yamada , Shigehiro Nagataki , Shunji Matsuura , Yusuke Sakai , Satoshi Yamada

We present an enhanced method for the application of Gaussian Mixture Modelling (GMM) to the coherent WaveBurst (cWB) algorithm in the search for short-duration gravitational wave (GW) transients. The supervised Machine Learning method of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-06 Leigh Smith , Sayantan Ghosh , Jiyoon Sun , V. Gayathri , Ik Siong Heng , Archana Pai

Gamma-Ray Transient Monitor (GTM) is an all-sky monitor onboard the Distant Retrograde Orbit-A (DRO-A) satellite, with the scientific objective of detecting gamma-ray bursts in the energy range of 20 keV to 1 MeV. GTM is equipped with five…

The first Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) catalog presented by the Fermi-Large Area Telescope (LAT) collaboration includes 28 GRBs, detected above 100 MeV over the first three years since the launch of the Fermi mission. However, more than 100 GRBs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-07 Elisabetta Bissaldi , Tristano Di Girolamo , Francesco Longo , Piero Vallania , Carlo Vigorito

This thesis comprises the first three chapters dedicated to providing an overview of Gamma Ray-Bursts (GRBs), their properties, the instrumentation used to detect them, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications in the context of GRBs,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-30 Riccardo Crupi

Modern time-domain surveys continuously monitor large swaths of the sky to look for astronomical variability. Astrophysical discovery in such data sets is complicated by the fact that detections of real transient and variable sources are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Henrik Brink , Joseph W. Richards , Dovi Poznanski , Joshua S. Bloom , John Rice , Sahand Negahban , Martin Wainwright

This is a follow-up sensitivity study on r-mode gravitational wave signals from newborn neutron stars illustrating the applicability of machine learning algorithms for the detection of long-lived gravitational-wave transients. In this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Antonis Mytidis , Athanasios Aris Panagopoulos , Orestis P. Panagopoulos , Andrew Miller , Bernard Whiting

To investigate GRBs in depth, it is crucial to develop an effective method for identifying GRBs accurately. Current criteria, e.g., onboard blind search, ground blind search, and target search, are limited by manually set thresholds and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-20 Peng Zhang , Bing Li , RenZhou Gui , Shaolin Xiong , Ze-Cheng Zou , Xianggao Wang , Xiaobo Li , Ce Cai , Yi Zhao , Yanqiu Zhang , Wangchen Xue , Chao Zheng , Hongyu Zhao

In this paper, we consider the detection of a small change in the frequency of sinusoidal signals, which arises in various signal processing applications. The generalized likelihood ratio test (GLRT) for this problem uses the maximum…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-24 Eyal Levy , Tirza Routtenberg

Studies of high-redshift gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) provide important information about the early Universe such as the rates of stellar collapsars and mergers, the metallicity content, constraints on the re-ionization period, and probes of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 T. N. Ukwatta , P. R. Wozniak , N. Gehrels

In imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope (IACT) arrays, the standard method of statistically inferring the existence of a source is based on the maximum likelihood method of Li&Ma (1983). We present a new statistical approach, also based…

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We present detailed, multi-wavelength analysis of GRB 210704A: a Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor discovered and Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) detected gamma-ray burst (GRB). The burst is dominated by a short ($\approx 2$ s) pulse followed…

Maximum likelihood (ML) detection is an optimal signal detection scheme, which is often difficult to implement due to its high computational complexity, especially in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) scenario. In a system with $N_t$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Sharan Mourya , Amit Kumar Dutta

A novel application of machine-learning (ML) based image processing algorithms is proposed to analyze an all-sky map (ASM) obtained using the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. An attempt was made to simulate a one-year ASM from a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-02 Shogo Sato , Jun Kataoka , Soichiro Ito , Jun'ichi Kotoku , Masato Taki , Asuka Oyama , Takaya Toyoda , Yuki Nakamura , Marino Yamamoto

The Rapid and accurate identification of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) is crucial for unraveling their origins. However, current burst search algorithms frequently miss low-threshold signals or lack universality for observations. In this study,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-27 Peng Zhang , Bing Li , Ren-zhou Gui , Shao-lin Xiong , Yu Wang , Yan-qiu Zhang , Chen-wei Wang , Jia-cong Liu , Wang-chen Xue , Chao Zheng , Zheng-hang Yu , Wen-long Zhang

Time domain radio astronomy observing campaigns frequently generate large volumes of data. Our goal is to develop automated methods that can identify events of interest buried within the larger data stream. The V-FASTR fast transient system…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-29 Kiri L. Wagstaff , Benyang Tang , David R. Thompson , Shakeh Khudikyan , Jane Wyngaard , Adam T. Deller , Divya Palaniswamy , Steven J. Tingay , Randall B. Wayth

The current data acquisition rate of astronomical transient surveys and the promise for significantly higher rates during in the next decade necessitate the development of novel approaches to analyze astronomical data sets and promptly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-28 Robert Strausbaugh , Antonino Cucchiara , Michael Dow , Sara Webb , Jielai Zhang , Simon Goode , Jeff Cooke