1. Radio Astronomical Monitoring in Virtual Environment
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Kira Konich, S. A. Tyul’bashev, Stanislav Klimenko, V. M. Malofeev, Igor Nikitin, and Publica
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Big Data ,business.industry ,Computer science ,Interface (computing) ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Real-time computing ,Celestial sphere ,radio astronomy ,computer.software_genre ,Signal ,Radio telescope ,symbols.namesake ,Pulsar ,virtual environments ,Virtual machine ,symbols ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,Telecommunications ,business ,computer ,Doppler effect ,scientific visualization ,Search for extraterrestrial intelligence ,General Environmental Science ,Radio astronomy - Abstract
We present StarWatch, our application for real-time analysis of radio astronomical data in Virtual Environment. Serving as an interface to radio astronomical databases or being applied to live data from the radio telescopes, the application supports various data filters measuring signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), Doppler's drift, degree of signal localization on celestial sphere and other useful tools for signal extraction and classification. Originally designed for the database of narrow band signals from SETI Institute (setilive.org), the application has been recently extended for the detection of wide band periodic signals, necessary for the search of pulsars. We will also address the detection of week signals possessing arbitrary waveforms and present several data filters suitable for this purpose.
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- 2015
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