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V-FASTR:VLBA快速无线电瞬变实验

V-FASTR: The VLBA Fast Radio Transients Experiment

Randall B. Wayth, Walter F. Brisken, Adam T. Deller, Walid A. Majid, David R. Thompson, Steven J. Tingay, Kiri L. Wagstaff

摘要:

最近用单碟射电望远镜发现了分散的非周期性脉冲无线电信号,这引发了人们对探索快速瞬变无线电信号相对未知空间的极大兴趣。在这里,我们描述了V-FASTR,一个实验,使用甚长基线阵列(VLBA)进行快速瞬态无线电信号的盲搜索。该实验完全以一种并行模式运行,同时进行正常的VLBA观测和操作。这是由于用于处理VLBA数据的DiFX软件相关器的功能和灵活性。使用VLBA进行这种类型的实验比单碟实验具有显着的优势,包括更大的视野,能够轻松区分本地射频干扰和真实信号,以及将天空中检测到的事件定位到毫弧秒精度的可能性。我们描述了我们的软件管道,它接受短积分(~ms)光谱仪数据从每个天线在实时相关,并执行一个不相干的去色散分别为每个天线,在一个范围内的试验色散措施。去分散的数据由复杂的检测器处理,并记录候选事件。在关联结束时,存储事件发生时的原始数据的小片段以供进一步分析。我们提出了我们的事件检测管道的一些测试观测的恒星B 0329 +54和B 0531 +21(螃蟹脉冲星)的结果。

英文摘要:

Recent discoveries of dispersed, non-periodic impulsive radio signals with single-dish radio telescopes have sparked significant interest in exploring the relatively uncharted space of fast transient radio signals. Here we describe V-FASTR, an experiment to perform a blind search for fast transient radio signals using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). The experiment runs entirely in a commensal mode, alongside normal VLBA observations and operations. It is made possible by the features and flexibility of the DiFX software correlator that is used to process VLBA data. Using the VLBA for this type of experiment offers significant advantages over single-dish experiments, including a larger field of view, the ability to easily distinguish local radio-frequency interference from real signals and the possibility to localize detected events on the sky to milliarcsecond accuracy. We describe our software pipeline, which accepts short integration (~ms) spectrometer data from each antenna in real time during correlation and performs an incoherent dedispersion separately for each antenna, over a range of trial dispersion measures. The dedispersed data are processed by a sophisticated detector and candidate events are recorded. At the end of the correlation, small snippets of the raw data at the time of the events are stored for further analysis. We present the results of our event detection pipeline from some test observations of the pulsars B0329+54 and B0531+21 (the Crab pulsar).

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