Artificial intelligence methods are indispensable to identifying pulsars from large amounts of candidates.We develop a new pulsar identification system that utilizes the CoAtNet to score two-dimensional features of ca...Artificial intelligence methods are indispensable to identifying pulsars from large amounts of candidates.We develop a new pulsar identification system that utilizes the CoAtNet to score two-dimensional features of candidates,implements a multilayer perceptron to score one-dimensional features,and relies on logistic regression to judge the corresponding scores.In the data preprocessing stage,we perform two feature fusions separately,one for one-dimensional features and the other for two-dimensional features,which are used as inputs for the multilayer perceptron and the CoAtNet respectively.The newly developed system achieves 98.77%recall,1.07%false positive rate(FPR)and 98.85%accuracy in our GPPS test set.展开更多
Timing newly discovered pulsars requires gradually building up a timing model that connects observations taken days to months apart.This sometimes can be challenging when our initial knowledge of the pulsar’s positio...Timing newly discovered pulsars requires gradually building up a timing model that connects observations taken days to months apart.This sometimes can be challenging when our initial knowledge of the pulsar’s position is arcminutes off from its true position.Such a position error leads to significant arrival time shifts as a result of the Earth’s orbital motion.Traditional down-hill fitting timing algorithms become ineffective when our model predicts the wrong pulse rotations for our next observation.For some pulsars whose model prediction is not too far off,the correct rotation number could be found by trial-and-error methods.For the remaining challenging pulsars,a more generalized method is called for.This paper proposes a GPU-based algorithm that could exhaustively search a large area of trail positions for probable timing solutions.This could help find phase-connected timing solutions for new pulsars using brute force.展开更多
In this work,we demonstrate a flexible multi-pin plasma generator with movable electrodes,which can change the shape of the electrode array freely,and then provide a large-area uniform plasma for the treatment of surf...In this work,we demonstrate a flexible multi-pin plasma generator with movable electrodes,which can change the shape of the electrode array freely,and then provide a large-area uniform plasma for the treatment of surfaces of different shapes.Discharge characteristics including U-I waveforms and discharge images and sterilization performance under three different electrode configurations(flat-flat,flat-curve,curve-curve)are investigated.Very similar results are acquired between the flat-flat configuration and the curve-curve configuration,which is much better than that under flat-curve configuration.This flexible multi-pin plasma generator offers a simple method to treat different irregularly shaped surfaces uniformly with a single device.Moreover,this device provides a foundation for developing a self-adaption large-scale uniform plasma generator by further introducing automatic adjustment of the position of every electrode driven by motors with discharge current feedback in the following study.Thus it will promote the applications of atmospheric-pressure cold plasmas significantly.展开更多
Fast radio bursts(FRBs)are bright,millisecond-duration radio emissions originating from cosmological distances.In this study,we report multi-year polarization measurements of four repeating FRBs initially discovered b...Fast radio bursts(FRBs)are bright,millisecond-duration radio emissions originating from cosmological distances.In this study,we report multi-year polarization measurements of four repeating FRBs initially discovered by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment(CHIME):FRBs 20190117A,20190208A,20190303A,and 20190417A.We observed the four repeating FRBs with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope(FAST),detecting a total of 66 bursts.Two bursts from FRB 20190417A exhibit a circular polarization signal-to-noise ratio greater than 7,with the highest circular polarization fraction recorded at 35.7%.While the bursts from FRBs 20190208A and 20190303A are highly linearly polarized,those from FRBs 20190117A and 20190417A show depolarization due to multi-path propagation,with σ_(RM)=2.78±0.05and 5.19±0.09 rad m^(-2),respectively.The linear polarization distributions among five repeating FRBs—FRBs 20190208A,20190303A,20201124A,20220912A,and 20240114A—are nearly identical but show distinct differences from those of nonrepeating FRBs.FRBs 20190117A,20190303A,and 20190417A exhibit substantial rotation measure(RM)variations between bursts,joining other repeating FRBs in this behavior.Combining these findings with published results,64% of repeating FRBs show RM variations greater than 50 rad m^(-2),and 21% exhibit RM reversals.A significant proportion of repeating FRBs reside in a dynamic magneto-ionic environment.The structure function of RM variations shows a power-law index of γ~(0-0.8),corresponding to a shallow power spectrum α=-(γ+2)~-(2.0-2.8)of turbulence,if the RM variations are attributed to turbulence.This suggests that the variations are dominated by small-scale RM density fluctuations.We perform K-S tests to compare the RMs of repeating and non-repeating FRBs,which reveal a marginal dichotomy in the distribution of their RMs.We caution that the observed dichotomy may be due to the small sample size and selection biases.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC,Nos.11988101 and 11833009)the Key Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(grant No.QYZDJ-SSW-SLH021)。
文摘Artificial intelligence methods are indispensable to identifying pulsars from large amounts of candidates.We develop a new pulsar identification system that utilizes the CoAtNet to score two-dimensional features of candidates,implements a multilayer perceptron to score one-dimensional features,and relies on logistic regression to judge the corresponding scores.In the data preprocessing stage,we perform two feature fusions separately,one for one-dimensional features and the other for two-dimensional features,which are used as inputs for the multilayer perceptron and the CoAtNet respectively.The newly developed system achieves 98.77%recall,1.07%false positive rate(FPR)and 98.85%accuracy in our GPPS test set.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(12041303)the National SKA Program of China(2020SKA0120200)+2 种基金the CAS Project for Young Scientists in Basic Research YSBR-063the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC grant Nos.12203070 and Nos.12203072)the CAS-MPG LEGACY project。
文摘Timing newly discovered pulsars requires gradually building up a timing model that connects observations taken days to months apart.This sometimes can be challenging when our initial knowledge of the pulsar’s position is arcminutes off from its true position.Such a position error leads to significant arrival time shifts as a result of the Earth’s orbital motion.Traditional down-hill fitting timing algorithms become ineffective when our model predicts the wrong pulse rotations for our next observation.For some pulsars whose model prediction is not too far off,the correct rotation number could be found by trial-and-error methods.For the remaining challenging pulsars,a more generalized method is called for.This paper proposes a GPU-based algorithm that could exhaustively search a large area of trail positions for probable timing solutions.This could help find phase-connected timing solutions for new pulsars using brute force.
文摘In this work,we demonstrate a flexible multi-pin plasma generator with movable electrodes,which can change the shape of the electrode array freely,and then provide a large-area uniform plasma for the treatment of surfaces of different shapes.Discharge characteristics including U-I waveforms and discharge images and sterilization performance under three different electrode configurations(flat-flat,flat-curve,curve-curve)are investigated.Very similar results are acquired between the flat-flat configuration and the curve-curve configuration,which is much better than that under flat-curve configuration.This flexible multi-pin plasma generator offers a simple method to treat different irregularly shaped surfaces uniformly with a single device.Moreover,this device provides a foundation for developing a self-adaption large-scale uniform plasma generator by further introducing automatic adjustment of the position of every electrode driven by motors with discharge current feedback in the following study.Thus it will promote the applications of atmospheric-pressure cold plasmas significantly.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.12588202,12203045,12233002,12403100,12103069,and 12403042)the Leading Innovation and Entrepreneurship Team of Zhejiang Province of China(Grant No.2023R01008)+3 种基金the Key R&D Program of Zhejiang(Grant No.2024SSYS0012)supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.12473047)the National SKA Program of China(Grant No.2022SKA0130100)the support from the Xinjiang Tianchi Program。
文摘Fast radio bursts(FRBs)are bright,millisecond-duration radio emissions originating from cosmological distances.In this study,we report multi-year polarization measurements of four repeating FRBs initially discovered by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment(CHIME):FRBs 20190117A,20190208A,20190303A,and 20190417A.We observed the four repeating FRBs with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope(FAST),detecting a total of 66 bursts.Two bursts from FRB 20190417A exhibit a circular polarization signal-to-noise ratio greater than 7,with the highest circular polarization fraction recorded at 35.7%.While the bursts from FRBs 20190208A and 20190303A are highly linearly polarized,those from FRBs 20190117A and 20190417A show depolarization due to multi-path propagation,with σ_(RM)=2.78±0.05and 5.19±0.09 rad m^(-2),respectively.The linear polarization distributions among five repeating FRBs—FRBs 20190208A,20190303A,20201124A,20220912A,and 20240114A—are nearly identical but show distinct differences from those of nonrepeating FRBs.FRBs 20190117A,20190303A,and 20190417A exhibit substantial rotation measure(RM)variations between bursts,joining other repeating FRBs in this behavior.Combining these findings with published results,64% of repeating FRBs show RM variations greater than 50 rad m^(-2),and 21% exhibit RM reversals.A significant proportion of repeating FRBs reside in a dynamic magneto-ionic environment.The structure function of RM variations shows a power-law index of γ~(0-0.8),corresponding to a shallow power spectrum α=-(γ+2)~-(2.0-2.8)of turbulence,if the RM variations are attributed to turbulence.This suggests that the variations are dominated by small-scale RM density fluctuations.We perform K-S tests to compare the RMs of repeating and non-repeating FRBs,which reveal a marginal dichotomy in the distribution of their RMs.We caution that the observed dichotomy may be due to the small sample size and selection biases.
