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FRB candidate optimizer for SPOTLIGHT, enabling real-time commensal searches

BANE, Kshitij; Jyotirmoy DAS; Arpan PAL; Ujjwal PANDA; Deepak BHONG et al.

Basic information

Original name

FRB candidate optimizer for SPOTLIGHT, enabling real-time commensal searches

Authors

BANE, Kshitij; Jyotirmoy DAS; Arpan PAL; Ujjwal PANDA; Deepak BHONG; Santaji N. KATORE; Sanjay S. KUDALE; Mekhala MULEY; S Harshavardhan REDDY; Jayanta ROY; Jayaram CHENGALUR; Karel ADÁMEK; Kenil AJUDIYA; Wes ARMOUR; Siddhartha BHATTACHARYYA; Ritavash DEBNATH; Nishant P. DEO; Chahat DUDEJA; Shelton GNANARAJ; Ajith KUMAR; Sangita KUMARI; Shilkumar MESHRAM; Raghav WANI; Bhaswati BHATTACHARYYA; Yash BHUSARE; Ankita GHOSH; Ruta KALE; Ajay KUMAR; Banshi LAL; Krishnakumar MA; Yogesh MAAN; Puja MAJEE; Visweshwar RAM; Ram MARTHI; Sapan Kumar SAHOO; Saptarshi SARKAR and Rahul SHARAN

Edition

Washington, 2025 URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Meeting, AP-RASC 2025, p. "213575-1"-"213575-4", 4 pp. 2025

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Proceedings paper

Field of Study

10308 Astronomy

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

is not subject to a state or trade secret

Publication form

electronic version available online

References:

URL

Marked to be transferred to RIV

Yes

Organization unit

Institute of physics in Opava

ISBN

978-94-63968-15-7

DOI

https://doi.org/10.46620/URSIAPRASC25/PNGW9526

EID Scopus

2-s2.0-105019921181

Keywords in English

Domain detections; Field of views; Localisation; Optimizers; Petaflops; Radio bursts; Radio pulsars; Real- time; Second imaging; Time domain

Tags

RIV26, UF
Changed: 17/2/2026 13:05, Mgr. Pavlína Jalůvková

Abstract

In the original language

The SPOTLIGHT project is a commensal survey for Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) and pulsars at the uGMRT using real-time HPC and AI for simultaneous time-domain detection and arc-second imaging localisation across 300 to 1460 MHz. FRBs are searched within 2,000 post-correlation beams steered across the Field of View (FoV), with SPOTLIGHT leveraging its PetaFlops of computing power to process PetaBytes of data per day in real time. The AI-powered trigger for genuine astronomical signals enables capturing voltage samples spanning the burst duration to study the spectro-temporal-polarimetric properties at microsecond time resolution as well as high-time resolution visibility for event localisation. With an unprecedented sensitivity, SPOTLIGHT is expected to find hundreds of localised FRBs. This paper presents the FRB candidate optimiser for SPOTLIGHT's FRB detection pipeline, which incorporates candidate clustering, classification, and triggering for visibility and raw voltage recording.
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