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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170103T160000
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SUMMARY:Zackay Barak (Weizmann Institute of Science) Algorithms for searching Fast radio bursts\, pulsars in tight binary systems and "Planet 9"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nFast radio bursts (FRB’s) are an exciting\, recently discovered\, astrophysical transients which their origins are unknown.\nCurrently\, these bursts are believed to be coming from cosmological distances\, potentially allowing us to probe the electron content on cosmological length scales. Even though their precise localization is crucial for the determination of their origin\, radio interferometers were not extensively employed in searching for them due to computational limitations.\nI will briefly present the Fast Dispersion Measure Transform (FDMT) algorithm\, allowing to reduce the operation count in blind incoherent dedispersion by 2-3 orders of magnitude.\nIn addition\, FDMT enables to probe the unexplored domain of sub-microsecond astrophysical pulses.Pulsars in tight binary systems are among the most important astrophysical objects as they provide us our best tests of general relativity in the strong field regime.\nI will provide a preview to a novel algorithm that enables the detection of pulsars in short binary systems using observation times longer than an orbital period.\nCurrent pulsar search programs limit their searches for integration times shorter than a few percents of the orbital period.\nUntil now\, searching for pulsars in binary systems using observation times longer than an orbital period was considered impossible as one has to blindly enumerate all options for the Keplerian parameters\, the pulsar rotation period\, and the unknown DM.\nUsing the current state of the art pulsar search techniques and all computers on the earth\, such an enumeration would take longer than a Hubble time. I will demonstrate that using the new algorithm\, (called Pruning) it is possible to conduct such an enumeration on a laptop using real data of the double pulsar\, PSR J0737-3039.\nAmong the other (astronomical) applications of the Pruning technique are:\n1) Searching for all pulsars on all sky positions in gamma ray observations of the Fermi LAT satellite.\n2) Blind searching for continuous gravitational wave sources emitted by pulsars with non-axis-symmetric matter distribution.\n\n3) Blind searching for planets in the outskirts of the solar system (AKA “Planet 9”)\, both in imaging data and on GAIA data (through astrometric deflection of background stars).\n \n4) Blind searching for asteroids and Kuiper belt objects in imaging data.\n \n5) Searching for stars in close orbits around the super massive black hole in the galactic center. \n\n\nPrevious attempts to conduct all of the above searches (if even considered) contained substantial sensitivity compromises.
URL:https://rpm.physics.lbl.gov/event/zackay-barak-weizmann-institute-of-science-tba/
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