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The Fourier Domain Acceleration Search (FDAS) is an effective technique for detecting faint binary pulsars in large radio astronomy datasets. This paper quantifies the sensitivity impact of reducing numerical precision in the GPU…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-01 Jack White , Karel Adamek , Jayanta Roy , Sofia Dimoudi , Scott M. Ransom , Wesley Armour

Using the Fourier Domain Acceleration Search (FDAS) method to search for binary pulsars is a computationally costly process. Next generation radio telescopes will have to perform FDAS in real time, as data volumes are too large to store.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-28 Jack White , Karel Adamek , Wes Armour

Binary pulsars are an important target for radio surveys because they present a natural laboratory for a wide range of astrophysics for example testing general relativity, including detection of gravitational waves. The orbital motion of a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-17 Karel Adámek , Jan Novotný , Sofia Dimoudi , Wesley Armour

The study of binary pulsars enables tests of general relativity. Orbital motion in binary systems causes the apparent pulsar spin frequency to drift, reducing the sensitivity of periodicity searches. Acceleration searches are methods that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 Sofia Dimoudi , Karel Adamek , Prabu Thiagaraj , Scott M. Ransom , Aris Karastergiou , Wesley Armour

While binary pulsar systems are fantastic laboratories for a wide array of astrophysics, they are particularly difficult to detect. The orbital motion of the pulsar changes its apparent spin frequency over the course of an observation,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-15 Bridget C. Andersen , Scott M. Ransom

Pulsar acceleration searches are methods for recovering signals from radio telescopes, that may otherwise be lost due to the effect of orbital acceleration in binary systems. The vast amount of data that will be produced by next generation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-25 Sofia Dimoudi , Wesley Armour

The detection of non-repeating events in the radio spectrum has become an important area of study in radio astronomy over the last decade due to the discovery of fast radio bursts (FRBs). We have implemented a single pulse detection…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-30 Karel Adámek , Wesley Armour

Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are widely used in the central signal processing design of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) as acceleration hardware. The frequency domain acceleration search (FDAS) module is an important part of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Haomiao Wang , Prabu Thiagaraj , Oliver Sinnen

Pulsar searches are computationally demanding efforts to discover dispersed periodic signals in time- and frequency-resolved data from radio telescopes. The complexity and computational expense of simultaneously determining the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 Lars Künkel , Rajat M. Thomas , Joris P. W. Verbiest

The detection of non-repeating or irregular events in time-domain radio astronomy has gained importance over the last decade due to the discovery of fast radio bursts. Existing or upcoming radio telescopes are gathering more and more data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-28 Karel Adamek , Wesley Armour

We present an improvement of our implementation of the Correlation Technique for the Fourier Domain Acceleration Search (FDAS) algorithm on Graphics Processor Units (GPUs) (Dimoudi & Armour 2015; Dimoudi et al. 2017). Our new improved…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-30 Karel Adámek , Sofia Dimoudi , Mike Giles , Wesley Armour

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

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

Pulsar timing is a powerful tool that, by accounting for every rotation of a pulsar, precisely measures the spin frequency, spin frequency derivatives, astrometric position, binary parameters when applicable, properties of the ISM, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-05 Jackson Taylor , Scott Ransom , Prajwal V. Padmanabh

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

With the increasing time and frequency resolution of modern radio telescopes and the exponential growth in observational data volumes, real-time single-pulse detection has become a critical requirement for time-domain radio astronomy.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Bingzheng Xia , Zujie Ren , Kuang Ma , Xiaoqian Li , Wenda Li , Shuibing He

Relativistic binary pulsars orbiting white dwarfs and neutron stars have already provided excellent tests of gravity. However, despite observational efforts, a pulsar orbiting a black hole has remained elusive. One possible explanation is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Vishnu Balakrishnan , David Champion , Ewan Barr , Michael Kramer , V. Venkatraman Krishnan , Ralph P. Eatough , Rahul Sengar , Matthew Bailes

We have performed a new search for radio pulsars in archival data of the intermediate and high Galactic latitude parts of the Southern High Time Resolution Universe pulsar survey. This is the first time the entire dataset has been searched…

Finding pulsars in binaries are important for measurements of the masses of neutron stars, for tests of gravity theories, and for studies of star evolution. We are carrying out the Galactic Plane Pulsar Snapshot survey (GPPS) by using the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-07 P. F. Wang , J. L. Han , Z. L. Yang , T. Wang , C. Wang , W. Q. Su , J. Xu , D. J. Zhou , Yi Yan , W. C. Jing , N. N. Cai , J. P. Yuan , R. X. Xu , H. G. Wang , X. P. You

We present the discovery of 37 pulsars from $\sim$ 20 years old archival data of the Parkes Multibeam Pulsar Survey using a new FFT-based search pipeline optimised for discovering narrow-duty cycle pulsars. When developing our pulsar search…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-01 R. Sengar , M. Bailes , V. Balakrishnan , M. C. i Bernadich , M. Burgay , E. D. Barr , C. M. L. Flynn , R. Shannon , S. Stevenson , J. Wongphechauxsorn
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