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We demonstrate a new technique for detecting radio transients based on interferometric closure quantities. The technique uses the bispectrum, the product of visibilities around a closed-loop of baselines of an interferometer. The bispectrum…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Casey J. Law , Geoffrey C. Bower

The sensitivity and field of view of the MeerKAT radio telescope provides excellent opportunities for commensal transient searches. We carry out a commensal transient search in supernova and short gamma-ray burst fields using methodologies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-24 S. I. Chastain , A. J. van der Horst , A. Horesh , A. Rowlinson , A. Andersson , R. Diretse , M. Vaccari , R. P. Fender , P. A. Woudt

We have discovered 21 Rotating Radio Transients (RRATs) in data from the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) 350-MHz Drift-scan and the Green Bank North Celestial Cap pulsar surveys using a new candidate sifting algorithm. RRATs are pulsars with…

Dedispersion is the computational process of correcting for the frequency-dependent time delay affecting a radio signal that propagates through the interstellar and intergalactic media. It is a crucial component of transient search…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-05 Cristian Di Pietrantonio , Marcin Sokolowski , Christopher Harris , Danny C. Price , Randall Wayth

In this study, we present a transformer-based multi-task model for Fast Radio Burst (FRB) detection, signal segmentation, and parameter estimation directly from time-frequency data, without requiring computationally expensive de-dispersion…

A new generation of radio telescopes with excellent sensitivity, instantaneous {\it uv} coverage, and large fields of view, are providing unprecedented opportunities for performing commensal transient searches. Here we present such a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-18 S. I. Chastain , A. J. van der Horst , A. Rowlinson , L. Rhodes , A. Andersson , R. Diretse , R. P. Fender , P. A. Woudt

We present the Living Swift-XRT Point Source catalogue (LSXPS) and real-time transient detector. This system allows us for the first time to carry out low-latency searches for new transient X-ray events fainter than those available to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-26 P. A. Evans , K. L. Page , A. P. Bearmore , R. A. J. Eyles-Ferris , J. P. Osborne , S. Campana , J. A. Kennea , S. B. Cenko

Rotating radio transients (RRATs) are sporadically emitting pulsars detectable only through searches for single pulses. While over 100 RRATs have been detected, only a small fraction (roughly 20\%) have phase-connected timing solutions,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-13 Min Jiang , Bingyi Cui , Natalia Schmid , Maura McLaughlin , Zhicheng Cao

We describe system verification tests and early science results from the pulsar processor (PTUSE) developed for the newly-commissioned 64-dish SARAO MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa. MeerKAT is a high-gain (~2.8 K/Jy) low-system…

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) provides an excellent opportunity for low cost searches for fast radio transients. The increased sensitivity and field of view of the SKA compared with other radio telescopes will make it an ideal instrument…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 T. M. Colegate , N. Clarke

Astronomical radio bursts disperse while traveling through the interstellar medium. To optimally detect a short-duration signal within a frequency band, we have to precisely compensate for the pulse dispersion, which is a computationally…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 Barak Zackay , Eran O. Ofek

We developed a pulsar search pipeline based on PRESTO (PulsaR Exploration and Search Toolkit). This pipeline simply runs dedispersion, FFT (Fast Fourier Transformation), and acceleration search in process-level parallel to shorten the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 Qiuyu Yu , Zhichen Pan , Lei Qian , Shen Wang , Youling Yue , Menglin Huang , Qiaoli Hao , Shanping You , Bo Peng , Yan Zhu , Lei Zhang , Zhijie Liu

Recent investigations reveal an important new class of transient radio phenomena that occur on sub-millisecond timescales. Often transient surveys' data volumes are too large to archive exhaustively. Instead, an on-line automatic system…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 David R. Thompson , Kiri L. Wagstaff , Walter Brisken , Adam T. Deller , Walid A. Majid , Steven J. Tingay , Randall B. Wayth

We have realised a simple prototype system to perform searches for short timescale optical transients, utilising the novel drift scan imaging technique described by Tingay (2020). We used two coordinated and aligned cameras, with an overlap…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-27 S. J. Tingay , W. Joubert

We are performing a transient, microsecond timescale radio sky survey, called "Astropulse," using the Arecibo telescope. Astropulse searches for brief (0.4 {\mu}s to 204.8 {\mu}s), wideband (relative to its 2.5 MHz bandwidth) radio pulses…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 J. Von Korff , P. Demorest , E. Heien , E. Korpela , D. Werthimer , J. Cobb , M. Lebofsky , D. Anderson , B. Bankay , A. Siemion

The MeerKAT telescope represents an outstanding opportunity for radio pulsar timing science with its unique combination of a large collecting area and aperture efficiency (effective area $\sim$7500 m$^2$), system temperature ($T<20$K), high…

The exponential growth of data from modern radio telescopes presents a significant challenge to traditional single-pulse search algorithms, which are computationally intensive and prone to high false-positive rates due to Radio Frequency…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-15 Bin Zhang , Yabiao Wang , Xiaoyao Xie , Shanping You , Xuhong Yu , Qiuhua Li , Hongwei Li , Shaowen Du , Chenchen Miao , Dengke Zhou , Jianhua Fang , Jiafu Wu , Pei Wang , Di Li

Exploration of the time-domain radio sky has huge potential for advancing our knowledge of the dynamic universe. Past surveys have discovered large numbers of pulsars, rotating radio transients and other transient radio phenomena; however,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-02 Benjamin R. Barsdell , Matthew Bailes , David G. Barnes , Christopher J. Fluke

[...] We present a singlepulse search method, improving on commonly used neural network classifiers thanks to the filtering of radio frequency interference based on its spectral variance and the magnetar's rotation. With this approach, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-05 Marlon L. Bause , Wolfgang Herrmann , Laura G. Spitler

An imaging technique with sensitivity to short duration optical transients is described. The technique is based on the use of wide-field cameras operating in a drift scanning mode, whereby persistent objects produce trails on the sensor and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 Steven Tingay