2026AJ....171..164L


Query : 2026AJ....171..164L

2026AJ....171..164L - Astron. J., 171, 164 (2026/March-0)

PaTRNet: Low-latency Spectral Energy Distribution Radio Frequency Interference Mitigation for FAST Pulsar Searches in NGC 6517.

LI Q., LI M., YU D., HE J. and CHEN M.

Abstract (from CDS):

The increasing sensitivity and data volume of modern radio telescopes mean that mitigating radio frequency interference is critical for both accuracy and throughput. For the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), 2D image segmentation pipelines are often too slow at scale, while classical thresholding requires retuning for each site and epoch. We propose PaTRNet, a lightweight parallel Transformer-ResNet architecture operating on 1D spectral energy distribution representations obtained by time-axis accumulation, coupled with channel attention based on Kolmogorov-Arnold networks for dynamic cross-branch fusion. On real FAST data, PaTRNet attains an overall F1 of 0.888 with a per-slice inference latency of 3.04 ms, improving F1 by 14.6% over the strongest traditional baseline (ArPLS-ST) at 2.9 times lower latency, and running 20.6∼48.9 times faster than mainstream 2D segmentation networks while maintaining accuracy. Beyond offline metrics, we apply PaTRNet to FAST observations of the globular cluster NGC 6517 and run a standard PRESTO search on PaTRNet-processed data and raw data. Under identical downstream settings, PaTRNet increases the number of confirmed pulsars from five to six and recovers all five found in the raw-data search, indicating improved candidate visibility and completeness. Furthermore, we tested this pipeline system on the strong pulsar PSR J0837+0610 to ensure that genuine astrophysical signals are not mislabeled.

Abstract Copyright: © 2026. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): Radio telescopes - Astronomy data analysis

Simbad objects: 8

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Number of rows : 8
N Identifier Otype ICRS (J2000)
RA
ICRS (J2000)
DEC
Mag U Mag B Mag V Mag R Mag I Sp type #ref
1850 - 2026
#notes
1 PSR B0834+06 Psr 08 37 05.64620 +06 10 15.8700           ~ 472 0
2 NGC 6517 GlC 18 01 50.376 -08 57 34.39   11.08       ~ 215 0
3 PSR J1801-0857B Psr 18 01 50.5658 -08 57 32.810           ~ 12 0
4 PSR J1801-0857A Psr 18 01 50.6124 -08 57 31.850           ~ 11 0
5 PSR J1801-0857E Psr 18 01 50.6232 -08 57 31.290           ~ 5 0
6 PSR J1801-0857C Psr 18 01 50.7407 -08 57 32.700           ~ 10 0
7 PSR J1801-0857F Psr 18 01 50.7409 -08 57 31.270           ~ 5 0
8 PSR J1801-0857D Psr 18 01 55.3653 -08 57 24.330           ~ 15 0

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