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20142022
most citedA bright millisecond-duration radio burst from a Galactic magnetar

745 citations · 2k across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

astro-ph.IM2022

An Overview of CHIME, the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment

The CHIME Collaboration, Mandana Amiri, Kevin Bandura +40

The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) is a drift scan radio telescope operating across the 400-800 MHz band. CHIME is located at the Dominion Radio Astrophysic…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 83 cited

The CHIME Pulsar Project: System Overview

Pulsar Collaboration, M. Amiri, K. M. Bandura +42

We present the design, implementation and performance of a digital backend constructed for the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) that uses accelerated computin…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 745 cited

A bright millisecond-duration radio burst from a Galactic magnetar

FRB Collaboration, B. C. Andersen, K. M. Bandura +68

Magnetars are highly magnetized young neutron stars that occasionally produce enormous bursts and flares of X-rays and gamma-rays. Of the approximately thirty magnetars currently k…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 12 cited

A GPU Spatial Processing System for CHIME

Nolan Denman, Andre Renard, Keith Vanderlinde +4

We present an overview of the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) based spatial processing system created for the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME). The design empl…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 392 cited

Periodic activity from a fast radio burst source

FRB Collaboration, M. Amiri, B. C. Andersen +70

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright, millisecond-duration radio transients originating from extragalactic distances. Their origin is unknown. Some FRB sources emit repeat bursts, r…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 21 cited

Spectral Kurtosis Based RFI Mitigation for CHIME

Jacob Taylor, Nolan Denman, Kevin Bandura +5

We present the implementation of a spectral kurtosis based Radio Frequency Interference detection system on the CHIME instrument and its reduced-scale pathfinder. Our implementatio…