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astro-ph.IM2026

How to Craft the Right Language AI Policy For Your Research Group (Some Assembly Required)

Michelle Ntampaka, S. Burke-Spolaor, Ioana Ciucă +14

Language AI is rapidly becoming part of the astronomy research ecosystem, prompting research teams to develop policies governing its use. But resources and advice for AI adoption a…

astro-ph.IM2023

The Petabyte Project

Evan F. Lewis, Sarah Burke-Spolaor, Maura McLaughlin +6

Transient radio sources, such as fast radio bursts, intermittent pulsars, and rotating radio transients, can offer a wealth of information regarding extreme emission physics as wel…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 6 cited

Robust Assessment of Clustering Methods for Fast Radio Transient Candidates

Kshitij Aggarwal, Sarah Burke-Spolaor, Casey J. Law +7

Fast radio transient search algorithms identify signals of interest by iterating and applying a threshold on a set of matched filters. These filters are defined by properties of th…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 15 cited

Pulsar Timing Array Experiments

J. P. W. Verbiest, S. Oslowski, S. Burke-Spolaor

Pulsar timing is a technique that uses the highly stable spin periods of neutron stars to investigate a wide range of topics in physics and astrophysics. Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 25 cited

Your: Your Unified Reader

Kshitij Aggarwal, Devansh Agarwal, Joseph W Kania +9

The advancement in signal processing and GPU based systems has enabled new transient detectors at various telescopes to perform much more sensitive searches than their predecessors…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 98 cited

A pulsar-based timescale from the International Pulsar Timing Array

G. Hobbs, L. Guo, R. N. Caballero +56

We have constructed a new timescale, TT(IPTA16), based on observations of radio pulsars presented in the first data release from the International Pulsar Timing Array (IPTA). We us…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 14 cited

The Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array Sky Survey (VLASS). Science case and survey design

M. Lacy, S. A. Baum, C. J. Chandler +75

The Very Large Array Sky Survey (VLASS) is a synoptic, all-sky radio sky survey with a unique combination of high angular resolution (2.5"), sensitivity (a 1 goal of 70…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 143 cited

FETCH: A deep-learning based classifier for fast transient classification

Devansh Agarwal, Kshitij Aggarwal, Sarah Burke-Spolaor +2

With the upcoming commensal surveys for Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), and their high candidate rate, usage of machine learning algorithms for candidate classification is a necessity. S…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 84 cited

The High Time Resolution Universe survey XIV: Discovery of 23 pulsars through GPU-accelerated reprocessing

V. Morello, E. D. Barr, S. Cooper +21

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.…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 7 cited

Multi-Messenger Astrophysics: Harnessing the Data Revolution

Gabrielle Allen, Warren Anderson, Erik Blaufuss +27

The past year has witnessed discovery of the first identified counterparts to a gravitational wave transient (GW 170817A) and a very high-energy neutrino (IceCube-170922A). These s…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 71 cited

Realfast: Real-Time, Commensal Fast Transient Surveys with the Very Large Array

C. J. Law, G. C. Bower, S. Burke-Spolaor +8

Radio interferometers have the ability to precisely localize and better characterize the properties of sources. This ability is having a powerful impact on the study of fast radio…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 17 cited

VOEvent Standard for Fast Radio Bursts

Emily Petroff, Leon Houben, Keith Bannister +13

Fast radio bursts are a new class of transient radio phenomena currently detected as millisecond radio pulses with very high dispersion measures. As new radio surveys begin searchi…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 106 cited

The SUrvey for Pulsars and Extragalactic Radio Bursts I: Survey Description and Overview

E. F. Keane, E. D. Barr, A. Jameson +19

We describe the Survey for Pulsars and Extragalactic Radio Bursts (SUPERB), an ongoing pulsar and fast transient survey using the Parkes radio telescope. SUPERB involves real-time…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 27 cited

Wide-band Profile Domain Pulsar Timing Analysis

L. Lentati, M. Kerr, S. Dai +22

We extend profile domain pulsar timing to incorporate wide-band effects such as frequency-dependent profile evolution and broadband shape variation in the pulse profile. We also in…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 9 cited

Rare Event Statistics Applied to Fast Radio Bursts

Scott Vander Wiel, Sarah Burke-Spolaor, Earl Lawrence +2

Statistical interpretation of sparsely sampled event rates has become vital for new transient surveys, particularly those aimed at detecting fast radio bursts (FRBs). We provide an…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 457 cited

The International Pulsar Timing Array: First Data Release

J. P. W. Verbiest, L. Lentati, G. Hobbs +89

The highly stable spin of neutron stars can be exploited for a variety of (astro-)physical investigations. In particular arrays of pulsars with rotational periods of the order of m…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 31 cited

Gravitational-Wave Detection and Astrophysics with Pulsar Timing Arrays

Sarah Burke-Spolaor

We have begun an exciting era for gravitational wave detection, as several world-leading experiments are breaching the threshold of anticipated signal strengths. Pulsar timing arra…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 40 cited

Versatile Directional Searches for Gravitational Waves with Pulsar Timing Arrays

D. R. Madison, X. -J. Zhu, G. Hobbs +23

By regularly monitoring the most stable millisecond pulsars over many years, pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are positioned to detect and study correlations in the timing behaviour of…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 219 cited

The NANOGrav Nine-year Data Set: Observations, Arrival Time Measurements, and Analysis of 37 Millisecond Pulsars

Z. Arzoumanian, A. Brazier, S. Burke-Spolaor +41

We present high-precision timing observations spanning up to nine years for 37 millisecond pulsars monitored with the Green Bank and Arecibo radio telescopes as part of the North A…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 90 cited

Identifying the source of perytons at the Parkes radio telescope

E. Petroff, E. F. Keane, E. D. Barr +12

"Perytons" are millisecond-duration transients of terrestrial origin, whose frequency-swept emission mimics the dispersion of an astrophysical pulse that has propagated through ten…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 10 cited

Detection of fast transients with radio interferometric arrays

N. D. R. Bhat, J. N. Chengalur, P. J. Cox +7

Next-generation radio arrays, including the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and its pathfinders, will open up new avenues for exciting transient science at radio wavelengths. Their in…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 187 cited

Development of a pulsar-based timescale

G. Hobbs, W. Coles, R. N. Manchester +21

Using observations of pulsars from the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA) project we develop the first pulsar-based timescale that has a precision comparable to the uncertainties in…