Detecting anomalous transients in meertrap data

dc.contributor.authorPetersen-Charles, Jade Lindsay
dc.contributor.supervisorLochner, Michelle
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-06T08:55:15Z
dc.date.available2024-11-06T08:55:15Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractIn an era distinguished by significant technological progress, the prevalence of large and complex datasets characterizes the "big data" era across various disciplines. With improved telescopes being built aimed at generating datasets of unprecedented volumes, there is incredible potential for discovery. The MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa has proven to be an excellent telescope to search for fast radio transients such as pulsars and fast radio bursts (FRBs). MeerTRAP (more TRAnsients and Pulsars), which commensally uses MeerKAT to search for fast radio transients, detects tens of thousands of candidate objects daily (on average), although the vast majority are not of astrophysical origin. Automated techniques such as machine learning are routinely used to identify targeted astrophysical transients. However, an emerging application of machine learning is to aid the detection of unidentified or rare sources, referred to as anomalies.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/17635
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversty of the Western Cape
dc.subjectMeerTRAP
dc.subjectRadio frequency interference
dc.subjectSouth Africa
dc.subjectMachine learning
dc.subjectDimension Reduction
dc.titleDetecting anomalous transients in meertrap data
dc.typeThesis

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