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We combine pulsar population synthesis with simulation-based inference (SBI) to constrain the magnetorotational properties of isolated Galactic radio pulsars. We first develop a framework to model neutron star birth properties and their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-06 Vanessa Graber , Michele Ronchi , Celsa Pardo-Araujo , Nanda Rea

This thesis work represents the first efforts to combine population synthesis studies of the Galactic isolated neutron stars with deep-learning techniques with the aim of better understanding neutron-star birth properties and evolution. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-25 Michele Ronchi

Population synthesis studies constitute a powerful method to reconstruct the birth distribution of periods and magnetic fields of the pulsar population. When this method is applied to populations in different wavelengths, it can break the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-30 M. Gullón , J. A. Pons , J. A. Miralles , D. Viganò , N. Rea , R. Perna

Galactic binary neutron stars (BNSs) are a unique laboratory to probe the evolution of BNSs and their progenitors. Here, we use a new version of the population synthesis code SEVN to evolve the population of Galactic BNSs, by modeling the…

We present results of our pulsar population synthesis of normal pulsars from the Galactic disk using our previously developed Monte-Carlo code. From our studies of observed radio pulsars that have clearly identifiable core and cone…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-08 Peter L. Gonthier , Erin Nagelkirk , Melanie Stam , Alice K. Harding

Gravitational-wave parameter estimation for binary neutron star (BNS) systems poses severe computational challenges due to the extended signal duration, which can reach several minutes in current detectors. Neural posterior estimation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-27 Masaki Iwaya , Vivien Raymond , Soichiro Morisaki , Kazuki Takada

We perform population synthesis studies of different types of neutron stars (thermally emitting isolated neutron stars, normal radio pulsars, magnetars) taking into account the magnetic field decay and using results from the most recent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 S. B. Popov , J. A. Pons , J. A. Miralles , P. A. Boldin , B. Posselt

Our understanding of the neutron star population is informed to a great degree by large-scale surveys that have been carried out by radio facilities during the past fifty years. We summarize some of the recent breakthroughs in our…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-20 D. R. Lorimer , N. Pol , K. Rajwade , K. Aggarwal , D. Agarwal , J. Strader , N. Lewandowska , D. Kaplan , T. Cohen , P. Demorest , E. Fonseca , S. Chatterjee

We explore the possibility of inferring the properties of the Galactic neutron star population through machine learning. In particular, in this paper we focus on their dynamical characteristics and show that an artificial neural network is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-11 Michele Ronchi , Vanessa Graber , Alberto Garcia-Garcia , Jose A. Pons , Nanda Rea

We present results of our pulsar population synthesis of normal pulsars from the Galactic disk using our previously developed computer code. On the same footing, we use slot gap and outer gap models for gamma-ray emission from normal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Peter L. Gonthier , Caleb Billman , Alice K. Harding , Isabelle A. Grenier , Marco Pierbattista

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are the oldest but fastest pulsars known to date. In the 1980s, to explain how these pulsars could be formed, a new hypothesis was formulated: the recycling of pulsars, i.e the fact that a pulsar could accrete…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-16 Mattéo Sautron , Jérôme Pétri , Dipanjan Mitra , Adélie Dupuy--Junet , Marie-Eloïse Pietrin

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…

The next generation of space- and ground-based facilities promise to reveal an entirely new picture of the gravitational wave sky: thousands of galactic and extragalactic binary signals, as well as stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-03 James Alvey , Uddipta Bhardwaj , Valerie Domcke , Mauro Pieroni , Christoph Weniger

The computation of theoretical pulsar populations has been a major component of pulsar studies since the 1970s. However, the majority of pulsar population synthesis has only regarded isolated pulsar evolution. Those that have examined…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Paul Kiel , Jarrod Hurley , Matthew Bailes , James Murray

Analyses of extended arcs in strong gravitational lensing images to date have constrained the properties of dark matter by measuring the parameters of one or two individual subhalos. However, since such analyses are reliant on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-19 Adam Coogan , Noemi Anau Montel , Konstantin Karchev , Meiert W. Grootes , Francesco Nattino , Christoph Weniger

We present results of our pulsar population synthesis of ordinary isolated and millisecond pulsars in the Galactic plane. Over the past several years, a program has been developed to simulate pulsar birth, evolution and emission using Monte…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Peter L. Gonthier , Sarah A. Story , Brian D. Clow , Alice K. Harding

Current wisdom accounts to the diversity of neutron star observational manifestations to their birth scenarios, influencing their thermal and magnetic field evolution. Among the kind of observed neutron stars, radio pulsars represent by far…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-16 Ludmilla Dirson , Jérôme Pétri , Dipanjan Mitra

Simulation-based inference (SBI) solves statistical inverse problems by repeatedly running a stochastic simulator and inferring posterior distributions from model-simulations. To improve simulation efficiency, several inference methods take…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-11 Michael Deistler , Pedro J Goncalves , Jakob H Macke

In our previous paper, we developed a technique for identifying pulsar candidates in interferometric radio images using their distinctive scintillation signatures. Building on this technique, the present study simulates a pulsar population…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-06 Jitendra Salal , Shriharsh P. Tendulkar , Visweshwar Ram Marthi

Precise measurement of stellar properties through the observation of continuous gravitational waves from spinning non-axisymmetric neutron stars can shed light onto new physics beyond terrestrial laboratories. Although hitherto undetected,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-09 Yuhan Hua , Karl Wette , Susan M. Scott , Matthew D. Pitkin
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