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Interferometry techniques are essential for extracting phase information from optical systems, enabling precise measurements of dispersion and highly sensitive detection of perturbations. While phase sensing offers enhanced sensitivity…

Searching for dispersed radio pulses in interferometric data is of great scientific interest, but poses a formidable computational burden. Here we present two efficient, new antenna-coherent solutions: The Chirpolator and The Chimageator.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Keith W. Bannister , Tim J. Cornwell

Diffusion Transformers (DiT) are renowned for their impressive generative performance; however, they are significantly constrained by considerable computational costs due to the quadratic complexity in self-attention and the extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Shuning Chang , Pichao Wang , Jiasheng Tang , Fan Wang , Yi Yang

In this paper we present the results of a survey for radio transients using data obtained from the Very Large Array archive. We have reduced, using a pipeline procedure, 5037 observations of the most common pointings - i.e. the calibrator…

We present a novel two-stage approach which combines unsupervised and supervised machine learning to automatically identify and classify single pulses in radio pulsar search data. In the first stage, we identify astrophysical pulse…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-07 Di Pang , Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova , Thomas Devine , Maura McLaughlin

Modern radio interferometers such as the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) are capable of producing data at hundreds of gigabits to terabits per second. This high data rate makes the analysis of radio data cumbersome and computationally…

Oversampling combined with low quantization resolutions has been shown to be a viable option when aiming for energy efficiency in multigigabit/s communications systems. This work considers the case of 1-bit quantization combined with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-14 Tim Hälsig , Lukas Landau , Gerhard Fettweis

The paper provides a characterization of the complex monopulse ratio in terms of autocorrelation and power spectral density of its fluctuations during satellite tracking, taking into account the presence of additive noise on sum and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Marco Lanucara

We have re-processed single pulse candidates from the first four years (1997-2001) of the Parkes Multibeam receiver system observations, creating a new Parkes transient database (PTD II) that contains 165,592 single pulses from 363 known…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-21 Xuan Yang , S. B. Zhang , Le-Yu Tang , L. Toomey , Xue-Feng Wu

We report on the detection of pulsed, broad-band, X-ray emission from the transient source RX J0117.6-7330. The pulse period of 22 seconds is detected by the ROSAT/PSPC instrument in a 1992 Sep 30 - Oct 2 observation and by the CGRO/BATSE…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. J. Macomb , M. H. Finger , B. A. Harmon , R. C. Lamb , T. A. Prince

Next generation radio interferometric telescopes are entering an era of big data with extremely large data sets. While these telescopes can observe the sky in higher sensitivity and resolution than before, computational challenges in image…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-17 Luke Pratley , Jason D. McEwen , Mayeul d'Avezac , Xiaohao Cai , David Perez-Suarez , Ilektra Christidi , Roland Guichard

The ongoing optical time-domain astronomy surveys are routinely reporting fifty transient candidates per night. Here, I investigate the demographics of astronomical transients and supernova classifications reported to the Transient Name…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-14 S. R. Kulkarni

We report the experimental setup and overall results of the AARTFAAC wide-field radio survey, which consists of observing the sky within 50$^\circ$ of Zenith, with a bandwidth of 3.2$\,$MHz, at a cadence of 1$\,$s, for 545$\,$h. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-25 Mark Kuiack , Ralph A. M. J. Wijers , Aleksandar Shulevski , Antonia Rowlinson , Folkert Huizinga , Gijs Molenaar , Peeyush Prasad

The High Time Resolution Universe (HTRU) survey is an all-sky survey looking for pulsars and other radio transients. A new single-pulse (SP) search pipeline is presented, tailored to the northern part of the HTRU survey collected with the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-04 L. J. M. Houben , H. Falcke , L. G. Spitler , E. D. Barr , M. Berezina , D. J. Champion , R. Karuppusamy , M. Kramer

Optical transient surveys continue to generate increasingly large datasets, prompting the introduction of machine-learning algorithms to search for quality transient candidates efficiently. Existing machine-learning infrastructure can be…

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

We present the SARAO MeerKAT Galactic Plane Survey (SMGPS), a 1.3 GHz continuum survey of almost half of the Galactic Plane (251\deg $\le l \le$ 358\deg and 2\deg $\le l \le$ 61\deg at $|b| \le 1.5\deg $). SMGPS is the largest, most…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-03 S. Goedhart , W. D. Cotton , F. Camilo , M. A. Thompson , G. Umana , M. Bietenholz , P. A. Woudt , L. D. Anderson , C. Bordiu , D. A. H. Buckley , C. S. Buemi , F. Bufano , F. Cavallaro , H. Chen , J. O. Chibueze , D. Egbo , B. S. Frank , M. G. Hoare , A. Ingallinera , T. Irabor , R. C. Kraan-Korteweg , S. Kurapati , P. Leto , S. Loru , M. Mutale , W. O. Obonyo , A. Plavin , S. H. A. Rajohnson , A. Rigby , S. Riggi , M. Seidu , P. Serra , B. M. Smart , B. W. Stappers , N. Steyn , M. Surnis , C. Trigilio , G. M. Williams , T. D. Abbott , R. M. Adam , K. M. B. Asad , T. Baloyi , E. F. Bauermeister , T. G. H. Bennet , H. Bester , A. G. Botha , L. R. S. Brederode , S. Buchner , J. P. Burger , T. Cheetham , K. Cloete , M. S. de Villiers , D. I. L. de Villiers , L. J. du Toit , S. W. P. Esterhuyse , B. L. Fanaroff , D. J. Fourie , R. R. G. Gamatham , T. G. Gatsi , M. Geyer , M. Gouws , S. C. Gumede , I. Heywood , A. Hokwana , S. W. Hoosen , D. M. Horn , L. M. G. Horrell , B. V. Hugo , A. I. Isaacson , G. I. G. Józsa , J. L. Jonas , J. D. B. L. Jordaan , A. F. Joubert , R. P. M. Julie , F. B. Kapp , N. Kriek , H. Kriel , V. K. Krishnan , T. W. Kusel , L. S. Legodi , R. Lehmensiek , R. T. Lord , P. S. Macfarlane , L. G. Magnus , C. Magozore , J. P. L. Main , J. A. Malan , J. R. Manley , S. J. Marais , M. D. J. Maree , A. Martens , P. Maruping , K. McAlpine , B. C. Merry , M. Mgodeli , R. P. Millenaar , O. J. Mokone , T. E. Monama , W. S. New , B. Ngcebetsha , K. J. Ngoasheng , G. D. Nicolson , M. T. Ockards , N. Oozeer , S. S. Passmoor , A. A. Patel , A. Peens-Hough , S. J. Perkins , A. J. T. Ramaila , S. M. Ratcliffe , R. Renil , L. L. Richter , S. Salie , N. Sambu , C. T. G. Schollar , L. C. Schwardt , R. L. Schwartz , M. Serylak , R. Siebrits , S. K. Sirothia , M. J. Slabber , O. M. Smirnov , A. J. Tiplady , T. J. van Balla , A. van der Byl , V. Van Tonder , A. J. Venter , M. Venter , M. G. Welz , L. P. Williams

Cross-correlation is a popular signal processing technique used in numerous location tracking systems for obtaining reliable range information. However, its efficient design and practical implementation has not yet been achieved on mote…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Prasant Misra , Wen Hu , Mingrui Yang , Marco Duarte , Sanjay Jha

This paper addresses trash detection on the TACO dataset under strict TinyML constraints using an iterative hardware-aware neural architecture search framework targeting edge and IoT devices. The proposed method constructs a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Tony Tran , Bin Hu

We present the first blind interferometric detection and imaging of a millisecond radio transient with an observation of transient pulsar J0628+0909. We developed a special observing mode of the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Casey J. Law , Geoffrey C. Bower , Martin Pokorny , Michael P. Rupen , Ken Sowinski