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Pulse profile modelling (PPM) is a technique for inferring mass, radius and hotspot properties of millisecond pulsars. PPM is now regularly used for analysis of rotation-powered millisecond pulsars (RMPs) with data from the Neutron Star…

Pulse profile modelling (PPM) is a comprehensive relativistic ray-tracing technique employed to determine the properties of neutron stars. In this study, we apply this technique to the Type I X-ray burster and accretion-powered millisecond…

We have conducted a GPU accelerated reprocessing of $\sim 87\%$ of the archival data from the High Time Resolution Universe South Low Latitude (HTRU-S LowLat) pulsar survey by implementing a pulsar search pipeline that was previously used…

Abridged) We model the X-ray properties of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) by considering hot spot emission from a weakly magnetized rotating neutron star (NS) covered by an optically-thick hydrogen atmosphere. We investigate the limitations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Slavko Bogdanov , Jonathan E. Grindlay , George B. Rybicki

We present an analysis of polarized X-ray pulses based on simulated data for accreting millisecond pulsars (AMPs). We used the open-source X-ray Pulse Simulation and Inference code (previously applied to NICER observations), which we…

Pulse profile modelling is a relativistic ray-tracing technique that has provided constraints on parameters, with a focus on mass and radius, of five rotation-powered millisecond pulsars. While the technique can also be applied to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-23 Bas Dorsman , Tuomo Salmi , Anna L. Watts , Mason Ng , Anna Bobrikova , Vladislav Loktev , Juri Poutanen , Joern Wilms

The paper presents model pulse profiles from binary accreting X-ray pulsars using high-resolution numerical simulations for pencil and fan emission beam geometries, each with two different optical depths obtained using a new numerical code…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-19 Parisee S. Shirke , Swarnim S. Shirke

Accurate thermal emission models of neutron stars are essential for constraining the dense matter equation of state. However, incorporating realistic magnetic field structures is computationally prohibitive, severely constraining feasible…

In recent years graphical processing units (GPUs) have become a powerful tool in scientific computing. Their potential to speed up highly parallel applications brings the power of high performance computing to a wider range of users.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Uldis Locans , Andreas Adelmann , Andreas Suter , Jannis Fischer , Werner Lustermann , Gunther Dissertori , Qiulin Wang

In cryo-electron microscopy (EM), molecular structures are determined from large numbers of projection images of individual particles. To harness the full power of this single-molecule information, we use the Bayesian inference of EM…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2018-01-17 Pilar Cossio , David Rohr , Fabio Baruffa , Markus Rampp , Volker Lindenstruth , Gerhard Hummer

We demonstrate a GPU-accelerated nested sampling framework for efficient high-dimensional Bayesian inference in cosmology. Using JAX-based neural emulators and likelihoods for cosmic microwave background and cosmic shear analyses, our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-08 Toby Lovick , David Yallup , Davide Piras , Alessio Spurio Mancini , Will Handley

Large-language models (LLMs) are rapidly being applied to radiology, enabling automated image interpretation and report generation tasks. Their deployment in clinical practice requires both high diagnostic accuracy and low inference…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-11 Jyun-Ping Kao

Pulse profile modelling via relativistic ray-tracing can constrain the system parameters of neutron stars, notably their mass and radius. Among these objects, accreting millisecond pulsars (AMPs) are promising targets, because they are…

4D flow magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a reliable, non-invasive approach for estimating blood flow velocities, vital for cardiovascular diagnostics. Unlike conventional MRI focused on anatomical structures, 4D flow MRI requires high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Sun Jo , Seok Young Hong , JinHyun Kim , Seungmin Kang , Ahjin Choi , Don-Gwan An , Simon Song , Je Hyeong Hong

Bayesian spectral deconvolution provides a data-driven framework for mathematical model selection and parameter estimation from spectral data. Although highly versatile, it becomes computationally expensive as the number of model…

Computation · Statistics 2026-04-07 Tomohiro Nabika , Yui Hayashi , Masato Okada

Simulations of physical phenomena are essential to the expedient design of precision components in aerospace and other high-tech industries. These phenomena are often described by mathematical models involving partial differential equations…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-01-05 Daniel Magee , Kyle E Niemeyer

Pulse profile modelling is a relativistic ray-tracing technique that can be used to infer masses, radii and geometric parameters of neutron stars. In a previous study, we looked at the performance of this technique when applied to…

We present a robust approach to incorporating models for the time-variable broadening of the pulse profile due to scattering in the ionized interstellar medium into profile-domain pulsar timing analysis. We use this approach to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-12 L. Lentati , M. Kerr , S. Dai , R. M. Shannon , G. Hobbs , S. Oslowski

Structural parameters are normally extracted from observed galaxies by fitting analytic light profiles to the observations. Obtaining accurate fits to high-resolution images is a computationally expensive task, requiring many model…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Benjamin R. Barsdell , David G. Barnes , Christopher J. Fluke

The pulse shapes simulated in the accompanying paper Part $-$ I are compared with observations of a model binary accreting X-ray pulsar, Centaurus X-3. With known Cen X-3 inclination angles provided as input to the $\texttt{AXP4}$ code, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-15 Parisee S. Shirke , Gulab C. Dewangan
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