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20192026
most citedSpatial dispersion of light rays propagating through a plasma in Kerr spacetime

30 citations · 118 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

cs.CR2026

Detecting AI Training in Datacentre Power

Tom Kimpson, Mauricio Baker, Emlyn Graham

AI governance agreements require methods to detect large model training runs on a monitored computing cluster, without trusting the operator. We develop a method to detect synchron…

cs.CY2026

Can Power Draw Constrain Covert Compute? Limits of Analogue Verification for AI Governance

Tom Kimpson, Mauricio Baker, Emlyn Graham

Frontier AI treaties or agreements on limiting computation require external verification; an external auditor must be able to confirm how much computation actually ran and that par…

astro-ph.IM2026

Narrow spectral artifact investigation and mitigation in LIGO data from the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run

E. Goetz, A. Neunzert, A. M. Knee +258

We present efforts to identify, characterize, and mitigate narrow spectral artifacts in LIGO detector data during the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run. Narrow spectral artifac…

astro-ph.HE2026

Temporal Memory in Repeating Fast Radio Bursts: Epsilon-Machine Reconstruction of Causal Structure in Burst Timing

Tom Kimpson, Joseph O'Leary

The emission mechanism of fast radio bursts (FRBs) remains unknown. Whether the bursts from a repeating FRB arrive at random or in a structured sequence is a key constraint on that…

q-bio.QM2026

Reduced-Precision Stochastic Simulation for Mathematical Biology

Tom Kimpson, Mark B. Flegg, Jennifer A. Flegg

The stochastic simulation algorithm (SSA) is widely used to perform exact forward simulation of discrete stochastic processes in biology. However, the computational cost, driven by…

gr-qc2026

Search for continuous gravitational waves from neutron stars in five globular clusters in the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run

Damon H. T. Cheung, Keith Riles, Rafel Amengual +15

We present the results of directed searches for continuous gravitational waves from unknown neutron stars in five Milky Way globular clusters. We carry out these searches in the LI…

q-bio.PE2026

Multiscale Modelling of Birth-Death Processes

Tom Kimpson, Domenic P. J. Germano, Jennifer A. Flegg +1

Many biological systems exhibit multiscale dynamics, where some species occur in high copy numbers while others remain rare. This heterogeneity necessitates hybrid modelling approa…

astro-ph.HE2025

Is there a retrograde accretion disk around 4U 162667? Tracking torque reversals with a state-space model

Joseph O'Leary, Andrew Melatos, Tom Kimpson +5

X-ray timing studies of the persistent, Galactic, accretion-powered pulsar 4U 162667 reveal torque reversals, during which the pulse frequency alternates between multiyea…

astro-ph.IM2025

Argus: JAX state-space filtering for gravitational wave detection with a pulsar timing array

Tom Kimpson, Nicholas J. O'Neill, Patrick M. Meyers +1

Argus is a high-performance Python package for detecting and characterising nanohertz gravitational waves in pulsar timing array data. The package provides a complete Bayesian infe…

astro-ph.IM2025

State-space algorithm for detecting the nanohertz gravitational wave background

Tom Kimpson, Andrew Melatos, Joseph O'Leary +11

The stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) can be observed in the nanohertz band using a pulsar timing array (PTA). Here a computationally efficient state-space framework…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 4 cited

Observing Rayleigh-Taylor stable and unstable accretion through a Kalman filter analysis of X-ray pulsars in the Small Magellanic Cloud

Joseph O'Leary, Andrew Melatos, Tom Kimpson +5

Global, three-dimensional, magnetohydrodynamic simulations of Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities at the disk-magnetosphere boundary of rotating, magnetized, compact stellar objects reve…

gr-qc2024

Adaptive cancellation of mains power interference in continuous gravitational wave searches with a hidden Markov model

Tom Kimpson, Sofia Suvorova, Hannah Middleton +4

Continuous gravitational wave searches with terrestrial, long-baseline interferometers are hampered by long-lived, narrowband features in the power spectral density of the detector…

astro-ph.HE2024

State-space analysis of a continuous gravitational wave source with a pulsar timing array: inclusion of the pulsar terms

Tom Kimpson, Andrew Melatos, Joseph O'Leary +11

Pulsar timing arrays can detect continuous nanohertz gravitational waves emitted by individual supermassive black hole binaries. The data analysis procedure can be formulated withi…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 1 cited

Kalman tracking and parameter estimation of continuous gravitational waves with a pulsar timing array

Tom Kimpson, Andrew Melatos, Joseph O'Leary +11

Continuous nanohertz gravitational waves from individual supermassive black hole binaries may be detectable with pulsar timing arrays. A novel search strategy is developed, wherein…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 4 cited

Measuring the magnetic dipole moment and magnetospheric fluctuations of accretion-powered pulsars in the Small Magellanic Cloud with an unscented Kalman filter

Joseph O'Leary, Andrew Melatos, Tom Kimpson +5

Many accretion-powered pulsars rotate in magnetocentrifugal disequilibrium, spinning up or down secularly over multi-year intervals. The magnetic dipole moment of such systems…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 1 cited

RelativisticDynamics.jl: Relativistic Spin-Orbital Dynamics in Julia

Tom Kimpson

RelativisticDynamics.jl is an open-source Julia package for relativistic spin-orbital dynamics in the gravitational strong-field of a Kerr spacetime. Existing codes for modelling t…

physics.ao-ph2022★ 8 cited

Deep learning for quality control of surface physiographic fields using satellite Earth observations

Tom Kimpson, Margarita Choulga, Matthew Chantry +4

A purposely built deep learning algorithm for the Verification of Earth-System ParametERisation (VESPER) is used to assess recent upgrades of the global physiographic datasets unde…

physics.ao-ph2022★ 14 cited

Climate Change Modelling at Reduced Float Precision with Stochastic Rounding

Tom Kimpson, E. Adam Paxton, Matthew Chantry +1

Reduced precision floating point arithmetic is now routinely deployed in numerical weather forecasting over short timescales. However the applicability of these reduced precision t…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 7 cited

Radio timing in a millisecond pulsar-extreme/intermediate mass ratio binary system

Tom Kimpson, Kinwah Wu, Silvia Zane

Radio timing observations of a millisecond pulsar in orbit around the Galactic centre black hole (BH) or a BH at the centre of globular clusters could answer foundational questions…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 14 cited

Orbital spin dynamics of a millisecond pulsar around a massive black hole with an general mass quadrupole

Tom Kimpson, Kinwah Wu, Silvia Zane

We investigate the spin dynamics of a millisecond pulsar (MSP) in compact orbit around a Kerr-like massive black hole with an general mass quadrupole. We use the Mathisson-Papetrou…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 7 cited

Gravitational Burst Radiation from Pulsars in the Galactic centre and stellar clusters

Tom Kimpson, Kinwah Wu, Silvia Zane

Pulsars (PSRs) orbiting intermediate or supermassive black holes at the centre of galaxies and globular clusters are known as Extreme Mass Ratio Binaries (EMRBs) and have been iden…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 28 cited

Pulsar timing in extreme mass ratio binaries: a general relativistic approach

Tom Kimpson, Kinwah Wu, Silvia Zane

The detection of a pulsar (PSR) in a tight, relativistic orbit around a supermassive or intermediate mass black hole - such as those in the Galactic centre or in the centre of Glob…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 30 cited

Spatial dispersion of light rays propagating through a plasma in Kerr spacetime

Tom Kimpson, Kinwah Wu, Silvia Zane

We investigate the propagation of light through a plasma on a background Kerr spacetime via a Hamiltonian formulation. The behaviour of light when propagating through a vacuum and…