Pulsar candidate selection using ensemble networks for FAST drift-scan survey

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SCIENCE CHINA Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy, Volume 62, Issue 5: 959507(2019) https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-018-9388-3

Pulsar candidate selection using ensemble networks for FAST drift-scan survey

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  • ReceivedDec 7, 2018
  • AcceptedMar 8, 2019
  • PublishedMar 20, 2019
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Abstract

The Commensal Radio Astronomy Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) Survey (CRAFTS) utilizes the novel drift-scan commensal survey mode of FAST and can generate billions of pulsar candidate signals. The human experts are not likely to thoroughly examine these signals, and various machine sorting methods are used to aid the classification of the FAST candidates. In this study, we propose a new ensemble classification system for pulsar candidates. This system denotes the further development of the pulsar image-based classification system (PICS), which was used in the Arecibo Telescope pulsar survey, and has been retrained and customized for the FAST drift-scan survey. In this study, we designed a residual network model comprising 15 layers to replace the convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in PICS. The results of this study demonstrate that the new model can sort $>$96% of real pulsars to belong the top 1% of all candidates and classify $>$1.6 million candidates per day using a dual-GPU and 24-core computer. This increased speed and efficiency can help to facilitate real-time or quasi-real-time processing of the pulsar-search data stream obtained from CRAFTS. In addition, we have published the labeled FAST data used in this study online, which can aid in the development of new deep learning techniques for performing pulsar searches.


Acknowledgment

This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2017YFA0402600), the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong (Grant No. ZR2015FL006), the CAS International Partnership Program (Grant No. 114A11KYSB20160008), the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. XDB23000000), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61472043, 11743002, 11873067, 11690024, and 11725313), the Joint Research Fund in Astronomy (Grant No. U1531242) under Cooperative Agreement between the NSFC and CAS and National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11673005), and the Chinese Academy of Sciences Pioneer Hundred Talents Program. The authors also thank Chavonne Bowen and Alan Ho for labeling FAST pulsar candidates, the PALFA, GBNCC team and the Arecibo Remote Command Center (ARCC) students, Cherry Ng, Meng Yu, et al. for labeling and sharing their data. The authors thank the referee's constructive comments and suggestions.


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