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Toward the very long baseline interferometric calibration of the CHIME/FRB Outriggers

2024· dissertation· en· W7025255901 on OpenAlexaffabout

Bibliographic record

VenueeScholarship@McGill (McGill) · 2024
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicPrenatal Screening and Diagnostics
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCalibrationBaseline (sea)InterferometryNoise (video)
DOInot available

Abstract

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Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are extremely luminous radio signals of micro-to-millisecond duration with an unknown extragalactic origin.An important step towards constraining models for their progenitors is identifying their host galaxies, or even better, their positions within their hosts.This requires skylocalising FRBs to sub-arcsecond precision which would give a clue about the type of galaxies and local environments in which FRBs occur.The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment Fast Radio Burst (CHIME/FRB) project has observed a large sample of FRBs with its unique design optimised for rapid wide-field observations.The CHIME/FRB Outriggers are a VLBI network of three CHIME-like antennas which will enable the localisation of FRBs to milli-arcsec precision.For calibrating the VLBI network, we plan to employ a novel approach of using pulsars spread over the entire sky as calibrators.The implementation of this approach requires the real-time beamforming of pulsars every second to track a pulsar calibrator as it transits through the sky and saving the beamformed voltage data upon an FRB event to enable offline phase referencing.In this thesis, we describe upgrades made to the rudimentary realtime beamformer to meet these requirements.KKO, the first CHIME/FRB Outrigger, saw first light in June 2022, and has been in commissioning ever since.With a 66-km line of sight distance to CHIME, it can provide a sky-localisation accuracy of 1 arcsecond.As the pathfinder for the Outriggers, KKO enabled the development and testing of software pipelines aimed at FRB localisation.In this thesis, we will also discuss the pipelines set up to acquire FRB data at the Outriggers, and an analysis carried out to obtain the accuracy and estimated errors of our VLBI calibration techniques.i ABRÉGÉ Les sursauts radio rapides (FRB) sont des signaux radio extrêmement lumineux d'une durée de l'ordre de la microseconde à la milliseconde avec une origine extragalactique inconnue.Une étape importante vers des modèles contraignants pour leurs progéniteurs consiste à identifier leurs galaxies hôtes, ou mieux encore, leurs positions au sein de leurs hôtes.Cela nécessite de localiser les FRB dans le ciel avec une précision inférieure à la seconde d'arc, ce qui donnerait une idée du type de galaxies et des environnements locaux dans lesquels les FRB se produisent.Le projet Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment Fast Radio Burst (CHIME/FRB) a observé un large échantillon de FRB grâce à sa conception unique optimisée pour des observations rapides à grand champ.Les Outriggers CHIME/FRB sont un réseau VLBI de trois antennes de type CHIME qui permettront au localisation des FRB avec une précision au millième d'arcsec.Pour calibrer le réseau VLBI, nous prévoyons d'employer une nouvelle approche consistant à utiliser des pulsars répartis dans tout le ciel comme calibrateurs.La mise en œuvre de cette approche nécessite la formation de faisceaux en temps réel de pulsars chaque seconde pour suivre un calibrateur de pulsar alors qu'il transite à travers le ciel et enregistre les données de tension formées par le faisceau lors d'un événement FRB pour les activer hors ligne référencement de phase.Dans cette thèse, nous décrivons les améliorations apportées au formateur de faisceaux rudimentaire en temps réel pour répondre à ces exigences.KKO, le premier Outrigger CHIME/FRB, a vu sa première lumière en juin 2022 et est en mise en service depuis cette date.Avec une distance de visibilité directe de 66 km par rapport à CHIME, il peut fournir une précision de localisation du ciel de 1 seconde d'arc.En tant qu'éclaireur pour les Outriggers, KKO a permis le développement et le test de logiciels pipelines destinés à la localisation des FRB.Dans cette thèse, nous aborderons également les pipelines mis en place pour acquérir des données des FRBs aux Outriggers, et une analyse effectuée pour obtenir l'exactitude et les erreurs estimées de nos techniques d'étalonnage VLBI.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.029
Threshold uncertainty score0.057

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.004

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.023
GPT teacher head0.260
Teacher spread0.236 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2024
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