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Integrated sensing and communication improves the design of systems by combining sensing and communication functions for increased efficiency, accuracy, and cost savings. The optimal integration requires understanding the trade-off between…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Geon Choi , Namyoon Lee

We have conducted the Meterwavelength Single-pulse Polarimetric Emission Survey to study the radio emission properties of normal pulsars. A total of 123 pulsars with periods between 0.1 seconds and 8.5 seconds were observed in the survey at…

Context. High-precision pulsar-timing experiments are affected by temporal variations of the Dispersion Measure (DM), which are related to spatial variations in the interstellar electron content. Correcting for DM variations relies on the…

High-precision measurements of the pulsar dispersion measure (DM) are possible using telescopes with low-frequency wideband receivers. We present an initial study of the application of the wideband timing technique, which can simultaneously…

In this paper, we obtain and study typical beam entropy values for millimetre wave (mm-wave) channel models using the NYUSIM simulator for frequencies up to 100 GHz for fifth generation (5G) and beyond 5G cellular communication systems. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-22 Krishan Kumar Tiwari , Eckhard Grass , John S. Thompson , Rolf Kraemer

Radio emission propagating over an Earth-pulsar line of sight provides a unique probe of the intervening ionized interstellar medium (ISM). Variations in the integrated electron column density along this line of sight, or dispersion measure…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-08 M. T. Lam , T. J. W. Lazio , T. Dolch , M. L. Jones , M. A. McLaughlin , D. R. Stinebring , M. Surnis

Detecting fast radio bursts (FRBs) requires software pipelines to search for dispersed single pulses of emission in radio telescope data. In order to enable an unbiased estimation of the underlying FRB population, it is important to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Hao Qiu , Evan F. Keane , Keith W. Bannister , Clancy W. James , Ryan M. Shannon

Approximation of entropies of various types using machine learning (ML) regression methods are shown for the first time. The ML models presented in this study define the complexity of the short time series by approximating dissimilar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Andrei Velichko , Maksim Belyaev , Matthias P. Wagner , Alireza Taravat

Making precise measurements of pulsar dispersion measures (DMs) and applying suitable corrections for them is amongst the major challenges in high-precision timing programmes such as pulsar timing arrays (PTAs). While the advent of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-25 Dilpreet Kaur , N. D. Ramesh Bhat , Shi Dai , Samuel J. McSweeney , Ryan M. Shannon , Sanjay Kudale , Willem van Straten

The sensitivity of pulsar timing arrays to gravitational waves is, at some level, limited by timing noise. Red timing noise - the stochastic wandering of pulse arrival times with a red spectrum - is prevalent in slow-spinning pulsars and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-24 Paul D. Lasky , Andrew Melatos , Vikram Ravi , George Hobbs

We present the largest single survey to date of average profiles of radio pulsars, observed and processed using the same telescope and data reduction software. Specifically, we present measurements for 1170 pulsars, observed by the Thousand…

Maximum entropy estimation is of broad interest for inferring properties of systems across many different disciplines. In this work, we significantly extend a technique we previously introduced for estimating the maximum entropy of a set of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-01-05 Elliot A. Martin , Jaroslav Hlinka , Alexander Meinke , Filip Děchtěrenko , Jörn Davidsen

Discovery of pulsars is one of the main goals for large radio telescopes. The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), that incorporates an L-band 19-beam receiver with a system temperature of about 20~K, is the most…

To date, only 69 pulsars have been identified with a detected pulsed radio emission below 100 MHz. A LOFAR-core LBA census and a dedicated campaign with the Nan\c{c}ay LOFAR station in stand-alone mode were carried out in the years…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-18 L. Bondonneau , J. -M. Grießmeier , G. Theureau , A. V. Bilous , V. I. Kondratiev , M. Serylak , M. J. Keith , A. G. Lyne

The principle of maximum entropy provides a useful method for inferring statistical mechanics models from observations in correlated systems, and is widely used in a variety of fields where accurate data are available. While the assumptions…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-06-02 Ulisse Ferrari , Tomoyuki Obuchi , Thierry Mora

We apply the Efron-Petrosian technique to radio fluxes of pulsars detected in the Parkes multi-beam survey to test the independence of luminosity and distance. For this dataset, we find that for four different distance exponents (ranging…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-18 Pragna Mamidipaka , Shantanu Desai

Stellar coronae have been invoked to explain the apparently extragalactic dispersion measures observed in fast radio bursts. This paper demonstrates that the suggested plasma densities would lead to deviations from the standard dispersion…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-10 Artem V. Tuntsov

We report on a time-domain search for pulsars in 44 steep spectrum radio sources originally identified from recent imaging surveys. The time-domain search was conducted at 327 MHz using the Ooty radio telescope, and utilized a semi-coherent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-05 Yogesh Maan , Cees Bassa , Joeri van Leeuwen , M. A. Krishnakumar , Bhal Chandra Joshi

In this paper, the general radar measurement probfilems of determining range, Doppler frequency and scatteringproperties parameters are investigated from the viewpoint of Shannons information theory. We adopt the mutual information to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-02 Chao Shi , Dazhuan Xu , Ying Zhou , Weilin Tu

We determine spectral indices of 228 pulsars by using Parkes pulsar data observed at 1.4 GHz, among which 200 spectra are newly determined. The indices are distributed in the range from -4.84 to -0.46.Together with known pulsar spectra from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-21 Jun Han , Chen Wang , Jun Xu , Jinlin Han