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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 searching is essential for the scientific research in the field of physics and astrophysics. As the development of the radio telescope, the exploding volume and it growth speed of candidates growth have brought about several…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-27 Qingguo Zeng , Xiangru Li , Haitao Lin

The HTRU-S Low Latitude survey data within 1$^{\circ}$of the Galactic Centre (GC) were searched for pulsars using the Fast Folding Algorithm (FFA). Unlike traditional Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) pipelines, the FFA optimally folds the data…

Here we present an in-depth study of the behaviour of the Fast Folding Algorithm, an alternative pulsar searching technique to the Fast Fourier Transform. Weaknesses in the Fast Fourier Transform, including a susceptibility to red noise,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-19 A. D. Cameron , E. D. Barr , D. J. Champion , M. Kramer , W. W. Zhu

We propose a pulsar candidate cross matching algorithm to sift radio pulsar search candidates from repeated observations of the same sky location such as globular clusters, high energy sources, or supernova remnants. Our method uses both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-12 Qiuyu Yu , Yujie Wang , Zhichen Pan , Zhongli Zhang , Lei Qian , Zhongzu Wu , Ralph P. Eatough , Dejiang Yin , Baoda Li , Yujie Chen , Yinfeng Dai , Yifeng Li

As performance of dedicated facilities continually improved, massive pulsar candidates are being received, which makes selecting valuable pulsar signals from candidates challenging. In this paper, we designed a deep convolutional neural…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Yuanchao Wang , Mingtao Li , Zhichen Pan , Jianhua Zheng

We present the results of processing an additional 44% of the High Time Resolution Universe South Low Latitude (HTRU-S LowLat) pulsar survey, the most sensitive blind pulsar survey of the southern Galactic plane to date. Our…

We present 75 pulsars discovered in the mid-latitude portion of the High Time Resolution Universe survey, 54 of which have full timing solutions. All the pulsars have spin periods greater than 100 ms, and none of those with timing solutions…

Modern radio pulsar surveys produce a large volume of prospective candidates, the majority of which are polluted by human-created radio frequency interference or other forms of noise. Typically, large numbers of candidates need to be…

Pulsars have been primarily detected by their narrow pulses or periodicity in time domain data. Interferometric surveys for pulsars are challenging due to the trade-off between beam sensitivity and beam size and the corresponding tradeoff…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-26 Jitendra Salal , Shriharsh P. Tendulkar , Visweshwar Ram Marthi

In high precision pulsar timing, the accurate recovery of intrinsic pulsar profiles and their associated scattering parameters is of paramount importance. In this paper, we present a comprehensive study focused on the retrieval of intrinsic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-01 Adarsh Bathula , M. A. Krishnakumar , S. Jena

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…

The discovery of pulsars is of great significance in the field of physics and astronomy. As the astronomical equipment produces a large amount of pulsar data, an algorithm for automatically identifying pulsars becomes urgent. We propose a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 ShiChuan Zhang , XiangCong Kong , YueYing Zhou , LingYao Chen , XiaoYing Zheng , Chun-Ling Xu , Bao-Qiang Lao , Tao An

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

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

The search for pulsars produces a massive amount of data which needs to be processed and analyzed. The limited speed of manual observation necessitates the involvement of large numbers of people to keep up with data collection. This paper…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-20 Gurmehar Singh , Martin Nikolov , Jake North , Kalée Tock

Searching for periodic non-accelerated signals in presence of ideal white noise using the fully phase-coherent Fast Folding Algorithm (FFA) is theoretically established as a more sensitive search method than the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT)…

We present a method by using the phase characteristics of radio observation data for pulsar search and candidate identification. The phase characteristics are relations between the pulsar signal and the phase correction in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-04 Bo Peng , Qian-Chen Hu , Qiang Li , Lei Qian , Xiao-Bo Dong , Shi-Lin Peng , Ze-Lin Wang

Pulsar detection has become an active research topic in radio astronomy recently. One of the essential procedures for pulsar detection is pulsar candidate sifting (PCS), a procedure of finding out the potential pulsar signals in a survey.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-29 Haitao Lin , Xiangru Li

Recent discoveries of multiple long-period pulsars (periods ${\sim}10\,$s or larger) are starting to challenge the conventional notion that coherent radio emission cannot be produced by objects that are below the many theorised death lines.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-23 G. Grover , N. D. R. Bhat , S. J. McSweeney