Removal and replacement of interference in tied-array radio pulsar observations using the spectral kurtosis estimator

Purver, M.; Bassa, C. G.; Cognard, I.; Janssen, G. H.; Karuppusamy, R.; Kramer, M.; Lee, K. J.; Liu, K.; McKee, J. W.; Perrodin, D.; Sanidas, S.; Smits, R.; Stappers, B. W.

doi:10.1093/mnras/stab3434

The Large Dispersion and Scattering of FRB 20190520B Are Dominated by the Host Galaxy (2022)
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Koch Ocker, S., Cordes, J. M., Chatterjee, S., Niu, C. H., Li, D., McKee, J. W., Law, C. J., Tsai, C. W., Anna-Thomas, R., Yao, J. M., & Cruces, M. (2022). The Large Dispersion and Scattering of FRB 20190520B Are Dominated by the Host Galaxy. The Astrophysical journal, 931(2), Article 87. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac6504

The repeating fast radio burst FRB 20190520B is localized to a galaxy at z = 0.241, much closer than expected given its dispersion measure DM = 1205 ± 4 pc cm-3. Here we assess implications of the large DM and scattering observed from FRB 20190520B f... Read More about The Large Dispersion and Scattering of FRB 20190520B Are Dominated by the Host Galaxy.

A theoretical analysis of the scale separation in a model to predict solid tumour growth (2022)
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de Melo Quintela, B., Hervas-Raluy, S., Garcia-Aznar, J. M., Walker, D., Wertheim, K. Y., & Viceconti, M. (2022). A theoretical analysis of the scale separation in a model to predict solid tumour growth. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 547, Article 111173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2022.111173

Solid tumour growth depends on a host of factors which affect the cell life cycle and extracellular matrix vascularization that leads to a favourable environment. The whole solid tumour can either grow or wither in response to the action of the immun... Read More about A theoretical analysis of the scale separation in a model to predict solid tumour growth.

Searches for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars at Two Harmonics in the Second and Third LIGO-Virgo Observing Runs (2022)
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Abbott, R., Abe, H., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adhikari, N., Adhikari, R., Adkins, V., Adya, V., Affeldt, C., Agarwal, D., Agathos, M., Agatsuma, K., Aggarwal, N., Aguiar, O., Aiello, L., Ain, A., Ajith, P., Akutsu, T., Albanesi, S., Alfaidi, R., …Weltevrede, P. (2022). Searches for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars at Two Harmonics in the Second and Third LIGO-Virgo Observing Runs. The Astrophysical journal, 935(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac6acf

We present a targeted search for continuous gravitational waves (GWs) from 236 pulsars using data from the third observing run of LIGO and Virgo (O3) combined with data from the second observing run (O2). Searches were for emission from the l = m = 2... Read More about Searches for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars at Two Harmonics in the Second and Third LIGO-Virgo Observing Runs.

AI-based Twitter framework for assessing the involvement of government schemes in electoral campaigns (2022)
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Dhiman, A., & Toshniwal, D. (2022). AI-based Twitter framework for assessing the involvement of government schemes in electoral campaigns. Expert Systems with Applications, 203, Article 117338. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2022.117338

The government schemes (also known as programs and plans) or social welfare policies can be defined as the set of assistance and aids provided by the country's governance body. These schemes focus on the improved well-being of needful citizens. Some... Read More about AI-based Twitter framework for assessing the involvement of government schemes in electoral campaigns.

Detection of quasi-periodic micro-structure in three millisecond pulsars with the Large European Array for Pulsars (2022)
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Liu, K., Antoniadis, J., Bassa, C. G., Chen, S., Cognard, I., Gaikwad, M., Hu, H., Jang, J., Janssen, G. H., Karuppusamy, R., Kramer, M., Lee, K. J., Main, R. A., Mall, G., Mckee, J. W., Mickaliger, M. B., Perrodin, D., Sanidas, S. A., Stappers, B. W., Wang, L., …Possenti, A. (2022). Detection of quasi-periodic micro-structure in three millisecond pulsars with the Large European Array for Pulsars. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 513(3), 4037-4044. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac1082

We report on the detection of quasi-periodic micro-structure in three millisecond pulsars (MSPs), PSRs J1022+1001, J2145-0750, and J1744-1134, using high time resolution data acquired with the Large European Array for Pulsars at a radio frequency of... Read More about Detection of quasi-periodic micro-structure in three millisecond pulsars with the Large European Array for Pulsars.

Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): Self-Organizing Map application on nearby galaxies (2022)
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Holwerda, B. W., Smith, D., Porter, L., Henry, C., Porter-Temple, R., Cook, K., Pimbblet, K. A., Hopkins, A. M., Bilicki, M., Turner, S., Acquaviva, V., Wang, L., Wright, A. H., Kelvin, L. S., & Grootes, M. W. (2022). Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): Self-Organizing Map application on nearby galaxies. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 513(2), 1972-1984. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac889

Galaxy populations show bimodality in a variety of properties: stellar mass, colour, specific star-formation rate, size, and Sérsic index. These parameters are our feature space. We use an existing sample of 7556 galaxies from the Galaxy and Mass Ass... Read More about Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): Self-Organizing Map application on nearby galaxies.

Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): The Weak Environmental Dependence of Quasar Activity at 0.1< z <0.35 (2022)
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Wethers, C. F., Acharya, N., De Propris, R., Kotilainen, J., Baldry, I. K., Brough, S., Driver, S. P., Graham, A. W., Holwerda, B. W., Hopkins, A. M., López-Sánchez, A. R., Loveday, J., Phillipps, S., Pimbblet, K. A., Taylor, E., Wang, L., & Wright, A. H. (2022). Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): The Weak Environmental Dependence of Quasar Activity at 0.1< z

Understanding the connection between nuclear activity and galaxy environment remains critical in constraining models of galaxy evolution. By exploiting extensive catalogued data from the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey, we identify a represent... Read More about Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): The Weak Environmental Dependence of Quasar Activity at 0.1< z <0.35.

Resilience of sloshing cold fronts against subsequent minor mergers (2022)
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Vaezzadeh, I., Roediger, E., Cashmore, C., Hunt, M., Zuhone, J., Forman, W., Jones, C., Kraft, R., Nulsen, P., Su, Y., & Churazov, E. (2022). Resilience of sloshing cold fronts against subsequent minor mergers. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 514(1), 518-534. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac784

Minor mergers are common in galaxy clusters. They have the potential to create sloshing cold fronts (SCFs) in the intracluster medium of the cluster. However, the resilience of SCFs to subsequent minor mergers is unknown. Here we investigate the exte... Read More about Resilience of sloshing cold fronts against subsequent minor mergers.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Data Release 4 and the z < 0.1 total and z < 0.08 morphological galaxy stellar mass functions (2022)
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Driver, S. P., Bellstedt, S., Robotham, A. S. G., Baldry, I. K., Davies, L. J., Liske, J., Obreschkow, D., Taylor, E. N., Wright, A. H., Alpaslan, M., Bamford, S. P., Bauer, A. E., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Bilicki, M., Bravo, M., Brough, S., Casura, S., Cluver, M. E., Colless, M., Conselice, C. J., …Wilkins, S. M. (2022). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Data Release 4 and the z < 0.1 total and z < 0.08 morphological galaxy stellar mass functions. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 513(1), 439-467. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac472

In Galaxy And Mass Assembly Data Release 4 (GAMA DR4), we make available our full spectroscopic redshift sample. This includes 248 682 galaxy spectra, and, in combination with earlier surveys, results in 330 542 redshifts across five sky regions cove... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Data Release 4 and the z < 0.1 total and z < 0.08 morphological galaxy stellar mass functions.

Probing the Local Interstellar Medium with Scintillometry of the Bright Pulsar B1133 + 16 (2022)
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McKee, J. W., Zhu, H., Stinebring, D. R., & Cordes, J. M. (2022). Probing the Local Interstellar Medium with Scintillometry of the Bright Pulsar B1133 + 16. The Astrophysical journal, 927(1), Article 99. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac460b

The interstellar medium hosts a population of scattering screens, most of unknown origin. Scintillation studies of pulsars provide a sensitive tool for resolving these scattering screens and a means of measuring their properties. In this paper, we re... Read More about Probing the Local Interstellar Medium with Scintillometry of the Bright Pulsar B1133 + 16.

The Detection of a Massive Chain of Dark H i Clouds in the GAMA G23 Field (2022)
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Józsa, G. I., Jarrett, T. H., Cluver, M. E., Wong, O. I., Havenga, O., Yao, H. F., Marchetti, L., Taylor, E. N., Kamphuis, P., MacCagni, F. M., Ramaila, A. J., Serra, P., Smirnov, O. M., White, S. V., Kilborn, V., Holwerda, B. W., Hopkins, A. M., Brough, S., Pimbblet, K. A., Driver, S. P., & Kuijken, K. (2022). The Detection of a Massive Chain of Dark H i Clouds in the GAMA G23 Field. The Astrophysical journal, 926(2), Article 167. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac402b

We report on the detection of a large, extended H i cloud complex in the Galaxy and Mass Survey G23 field, located at a redshift of z ∼0.03, observed as part of the MeerKAT Habitat of Galaxies Survey campaign (a pilot survey to explore the mosaicing... Read More about The Detection of a Massive Chain of Dark H i Clouds in the GAMA G23 Field.

Dual-frequency single-pulse study of PSR B0950+08 (2022)
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Bilous, A. V., Grießmeier, J. M., Pennucci, T., Wu, Z., Bondonneau, L., Kondratiev, V., Van Leeuwen, J., Maan, Y., Connor, L., Oostrum, L. C., Petroff, E., Verbiest, J. P., Vohl, D., Mckee, J. W., Shaifullah, G., Theureau, G., Ulyanov, O. M., Cecconi, B., Coolen, A. H., Corbel, S., …Ziemke, J. (2022). Dual-frequency single-pulse study of PSR B0950+08. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 658, Article A143. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202142242

PSR B0950+08 is a bright nonrecycled pulsar whose single-pulse fluence variability is reportedly large. Based on observations at two widely separated frequencies, 55 MHz (NenuFAR) and 1.4 GHz (Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope), we review the prop... Read More about Dual-frequency single-pulse study of PSR B0950+08.

Time Series of Quad-Pol C-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar for the Forecasting of Crop Biophysical Variables of Barley Fields Using Statistical Techniques (2022)
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Sipols, A. E., Valcarce-Diñeiro, R., Santos-Martín, M. T., Sánchez, N., & de Blas, C. S. (2022). Time Series of Quad-Pol C-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar for the Forecasting of Crop Biophysical Variables of Barley Fields Using Statistical Techniques. Remote Sensing, 14(3), Article 614. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14030614

This paper aims to both fit and predict crop biophysical variables with a SAR image series by performing a factorial experiment and estimating time series models using a combination of forecasts. Two plots of barley grown under rainfed conditions in... Read More about Time Series of Quad-Pol C-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar for the Forecasting of Crop Biophysical Variables of Barley Fields Using Statistical Techniques.

The International Pulsar Timing Array second data release: Search for an isotropic gravitational wave background (2022)
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Antoniadis, J., Arzoumanian, Z., Babak, S., Bailes, M., Bak Nielsen, A. S., Baker, P. T., Bassa, C. G., Bécsy, B., Berthereau, A., Bonetti, M., Brazier, A., Brook, P. R., Burgay, M., Burke-Spolaor, S., Caballero, R. N., Casey-Clyde, J. A., Chalumeau, A., Champion, D. J., Charisi, M., Chatterjee, S., …Shaifullah, G. (2022). The International Pulsar Timing Array second data release: Search for an isotropic gravitational wave background. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 510(4), 4873-4887. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab3418

We searched for an isotropic stochastic gravitational wave background in the second data release of the International Pulsar Timing Array, a global collaboration synthesizing decadal-length pulsar-timing campaigns in North America, Europe, and Austra... Read More about The International Pulsar Timing Array second data release: Search for an isotropic gravitational wave background.

Modelling annual scintillation arc variations in PSR J1643-1224 using the Large European Array for Pulsars (2022)
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Mall, G., Main, R. A., Antoniadis, J., Bassa, C. G., Burgay, M., Chen, S., Cognard, I., Concu, R., Corongiu, A., Gaikwad, M., Hu, H., Janssen, G. H., Karuppusamy, R., Kramer, M., Lee, K. J., Liu, K., McKee, J. W., Melis, A., Mickaliger, M. B., Perrodin, D., …Zhu, W. W. (2022). Modelling annual scintillation arc variations in PSR J1643-1224 using the Large European Array for Pulsars. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 511(1), 1104-1114. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac096

In this work, we study variations in the parabolic scintillation arcs of the binary millisecond pulsar PSR J1643-1224 over five years using the Large European Array for Pulsars (LEAP). The two-dimensional (2D) power spectrum of scintillation, called... Read More about Modelling annual scintillation arc variations in PSR J1643-1224 using the Large European Array for Pulsars.

Localizing FRBs through VLBI with the Algonquin Radio Observatory 10 m Telescope (2022)
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Cassanelli, T., Leung, C., Rahman, M., Vanderlinde, K., Mena-Parra, J., Cary, S., Masui, K. W., Luo, J., Lin, H. H., Bij, A., Gill, A., Baker, D., Bandura, K., Berger, S., Boyle, P. J., Brar, C., Chatterjee, S., Cubranic, D., Dobbs, M., Fonseca, E., …Tendulkar, S. P. (2022). Localizing FRBs through VLBI with the Algonquin Radio Observatory 10 m Telescope. Astronomical Journal, 163(2), Article 65. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ac3d2f

The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME)/FRB experiment has detected thousands of fast radio bursts (FRBs) due to its sensitivity and wide field of view; however, its low angular resolution prevents it from localizing events to thei... Read More about Localizing FRBs through VLBI with the Algonquin Radio Observatory 10 m Telescope.

Study of 72 Pulsars Discovered in the PALFA Survey: Timing Analysis, Glitch Activity, Emission Variability, and a Pulsar in an Eccentric Binary (2022)
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Parent, E., Sewalls, H., Freire, P. C., Matheny, T., Lyne, A. G., Perera, B. B., Cardoso, F., McLaughlin, M. A., Allen, B., Brazier, A., Camilo, F., Chatterjee, S., Cordes, J. M., Crawford, F., Deneva, J. S., Dong, F. A., Ferdman, R. D., Fonseca, E., Hessels, J. W., Kaspi, V. M., …Zhu, W. W. (2022). Study of 72 Pulsars Discovered in the PALFA Survey: Timing Analysis, Glitch Activity, Emission Variability, and a Pulsar in an Eccentric Binary. The Astrophysical journal, 924(2), Article 135. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac375d

We present new discoveries and results from long-term timing of 72 pulsars discovered in the Pulsar Arecibo L-band Feed Array (PALFA) survey, including precise determination of astrometric and spin parameters, and flux density and scatter broadening... Read More about Study of 72 Pulsars Discovered in the PALFA Survey: Timing Analysis, Glitch Activity, Emission Variability, and a Pulsar in an Eccentric Binary.

The First Large Absorption Survey in H i (FLASH): I. Science goals and survey design (2022)
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Allison, J. R., Sadler, E. M., Amaral, A. D., An, T., Curran, S. J., Darling, J., Edge, A. C., Ellison, S. L., Emig, K. L., Gaensler, B. M., Garratt-Smithson, L., Glowacki, M., Grasha, K., Koribalski, B. S., Lagos, C. D. P., Lah, P., Mahony, E. K., Mao, S. A., Morganti, R., Moss, V. A., …Zwaan, M. A. (2022). The First Large Absorption Survey in H i (FLASH): I. Science goals and survey design. Publications / Astronomical Society of Australia, 39, Article e010. https://doi.org/10.1017/pasa.2022.3

We describe the scientific goals and survey design of the First Large Absorption Survey in H i (FLASH), a wide field survey for 21-cm line absorption in neutral atomic hydrogen (H i) at intermediate cosmological redshifts. FLASH will be carried out w... Read More about The First Large Absorption Survey in H i (FLASH): I. Science goals and survey design.

Common-red-signal analysis with 24-yr high-precision timing of the European Pulsar Timing Array: inferences in the stochastic gravitational-wave background search (2021)
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Chen, S., Caballero, R. N., Guo, Y. J., Chalumeau, A., Liu, K., Shaifullah, G., Lee, K. J., Babak, S., Desvignes, G., Parthasarathy, A., Hu, H., Van Der Wateren, E., Antoniadis, J., Bak Nielsen, A. S., Bassa, C. G., Berthereau, A., Burgay, M., Champion, D. J., Cognard, I., Falxa, M., …Xu, H. (2021). Common-red-signal analysis with 24-yr high-precision timing of the European Pulsar Timing Array: inferences in the stochastic gravitational-wave background search. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 508(4), 4970-4993. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab2833

We present results from the search for a stochastic gravitational-wave background (GWB) as predicted by the theory of General Relativity using six radio millisecond pulsars from the Data Release 2 (DR2) of the European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA) cove... Read More about Common-red-signal analysis with 24-yr high-precision timing of the European Pulsar Timing Array: inferences in the stochastic gravitational-wave background search.

Removal and replacement of interference in tied-array radio pulsar observations using the spectral kurtosis estimator (2021)
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Purver, M., Bassa, C. G., Cognard, I., Janssen, G. H., Karuppusamy, R., Kramer, M., Lee, K. J., Liu, K., McKee, J. W., Perrodin, D., Sanidas, S., Smits, R., & Stappers, B. W. (2022). Removal and replacement of interference in tied-array radio pulsar observations using the spectral kurtosis estimator. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 510(2), 1597-1611. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab3434

We describe how to implement the spectral kurtosis method of interference removal (zapping) on a digitized signal of averaged power values. Spectral kurtosis is a hypothesis test, analogous to the t-test, with a null hypothesis that the amplitudes fr... Read More about Removal and replacement of interference in tied-array radio pulsar observations using the spectral kurtosis estimator.

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