Accurate simulation of pulsar flux variability is critical for testing Square Kilometre Array (SKA) interferometric pipelines. However, most existing simulators neglect the effects of integration time and related observational parameters, limiting their realism and utility for interferometric end-to-end testing. To address these shortcomings, we develop a Pulsar Simulator for SKA-scale interferometric observations (PulSKASim), which models pulsar flux evolution across pulsar period, maximum flux, duty cycle, and noise, accounting for integration time, sampling, and observation duration, and naturally models flux smoothing that arises from finite integration within each dump time. PulSKASim generates synthetic measurement sets using functions in simulators for radio interferometers, such as OSKAR and Pyuvsim, where each snapshot contains pulsars with controlled flux levels, enabling realistic per-time-slot experiments. This simulator allows for detailed assessment of calibration, imaging, and detection pipelines under realistic SKA-like conditions, bridging pulsar variability modelling with interferometric simulation in a way not achievable by existing tools.
The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) would be the world's largest radio telescope with eventually over a square kilometer of collecting area. However, there are enormous challenges in its data processing. The using of modern distributed computing techniques to solve the problem of massive data processing in SKA is one of the most important challenges. In this study, basing on the Dask distribution computational framework, and taking the visibility function integral processing as an example, we adopt a multi-level parallelism method to implement distributed averaging over time and channel. Dask Arr…
A Non-Negativity Iterative Approach to Image Deconvolution for SKA
School of Physics and Astronomy, Sun Yat-sen University(中山大学物理与天文学院);CSST Science Center for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area(粤港澳大湾区宇宙大尺度结构与星系中心科学中心)
Detection of the redshifted 21-cm signal of neutral hydrogen from the Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization is one of the final frontiers of modern observational cosmology. The inherently faint signal makes it susceptible to contamination by several sources like astrophysical foregrounds and instrumental systematics. Nevertheless, developments achieved in the recent times will combine to make signal detection possible with the upcoming Square Kilometer Array (SKA), both statistically and via tomography. This review describes an indigenously developed end-to-end pipeline that simulates sens…
We show that the use of a superstation (a phased array created using multiple stations of an interferometric array) created in post-processing for LOFAR-VLBI observations introduces a direction-dependent loss of signal in the image. We show this effect using simulations and real data. Using the RIME formalism, we characterise it fully, and give limits under which this signal loss is negligible. Finally, we show that we are able to fully predict this effect. We close with guidelines for interferometric observers to avoid this effect in their observations, and a discussion of techniques which co…
Prospects for Discovering Pulsars in Future Continuum Surveys Using Variance Imaging
在Dai等人(2016)中,我们开发了一种形式主义,用于从包含时间和频率信息的标准干涉无线电图像计算方差图像。方差成像与未来的无线电连续调查,使我们能够识别无线电脉冲星,并作为一个补充,传统的脉冲星搜索是最敏感的严格的周期性信号。在这里,我们进行模拟来预测我们可以在未来的连续调查中使用方差成像发现的卫星数量。我们表明,澳大利亚SKA探路者(ASKAP)的宇宙进化图(EMU)调查可以发现$\sim30$正常的恒星和$\sim40$毫秒恒星(MSP)超过和超过今天已知的数量,同样的,一个全天空连续调查与SKA-MID可以发现$\sim140$正常的恒星和$\sim110$ MSP与此技术。EMU和SKA-MID的方差成像将检测具有大占空比的双星,因此是在相对论双星系统中寻找MSP和双星的潜在工具。与目前在南半球银河系高纬度地区进行的脉冲星调查相比,EMU和SKA-MID的方差成像将更加灵敏,并将能够探测色散测量值在$\sim10$和100 cm $^{-3}$ pc之间的脉冲星。
A Formalism for Calibrating the Instrumental Polarization of Radio Interferometric Arrays at Meter Wavelengths using Unpolarized Sky: A Demonstration using the MWA Observations
A limiting systematic effect in 21-cm interferometric experiments is the chromaticity due to the coupling between the sky and the instrument. This coupling is sourced by the instrument primary beam; therefore it is important to know the beam to extremely high precision. Here we demonstrate how known beam uncertainties can be characterized using databases of beam models. In this introductory work, we focus on beam errors arising from physically offset and/or broken antennas within a station. We use the public code OSKAR to generate an "ideal" SKA beam formed from 256 antennas regularly-spaced i…
Learned radio interferometric imaging for varying visibility coverage
Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL)(穆尔空间科学实验室);University College London (UCL)(伦敦大学学院);Leiden Observatory Leiden University(莱顿大学莱顿天文台);Department of Computer Science University College London (UCL)(计算机科学系伦敦大学学院);Alan Turing Institute(艾伦·图灵研究所)
Compressing radio interferometric visibility data into a probabilistic model using sparse Gaussian processes
Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo(东京大学宇宙物理数学研究所(WPI));Center for Data-Driven Discovery, Kavli IPMU (WPI), UTIAS, The University of Tokyo(东京大学数据驱动发现中心,Kavli IPMU(WPI),UTIAS)
The Murchison Widefield Array Phase III upgrade: Sensitivity Doubled, Number of Baselines Quadrupled, Flexibility Enhanced, and EoR Observations Optimised
International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, Curtin University(国际射电天文研究中心,科廷大学);Curtin Institute for Data Science, Curtin University(科廷数据科学研究所,科廷大学);SKA Observatory(平方公里阵列巡天望远镜观测站);Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D)(三维全天空天体物理学卓越中心 (ASTRO 3D))