Pulsar Candidate Identification with Artificial Intelligence Techniques

Understand

Discovering pulsars is a significant and meaningful research topic in the field of radio astronomy.

• With the advent of astronomical instruments such as he Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in China, data volumes and data rates are exponentially growing.
• This fact necessitates a focus on artificial intelligence (AI) technologies that can perform the automatic pulsar candidate identification to mine large astronomical data sets.
• Automatic pulsar candidate identification can be considered as a task of determining potential candidates for further investigation and eliminating noises of radio frequency interferences or other non-pulsar signals.