4-8 July 2016
Kramer Law building
Africa/Johannesburg timezone
<a href="http://events.saip.org.za/internalPage.py?pageId=10&confId=86">The Proceedings of SAIP2016</a> published on 24 December 2017

Rethinking IIR filters as part of real-time pulsar astronomy

7 Jul 2016, 10:20
20m
5A (Kramer Law building)

5A

Kramer Law building

UCT Middle Campus Cape Town
Oral Presentation Track D1 - Astrophysics Astrophysics (1)

Speaker

Mr Maritz Jacques (UFS)

Main supervisor (name and email)<br>and his / her institution

Prof Pieter Meintjes
meintpj@gmail.com
UFS

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The interstellar medium between the observer and a pulsar under investigation can be modeled as a cold plasma which alters the characteristics of electromagnetic radiation emitted by a pulsar event. Dispersion and scattering effects, which primarily contribute to the altered electromagnetic characteristics, ultimately influence our ability to detect pulsar events.  In this paper we propose, for the first time, an infinite impulse response filter to correct for the aforementioned effects in real-time. Computational improvements over existing finite impulse response solutions are demonstrated using an FPGA implementation. A new possibility of trading elastic storage space for reduced computational complexity is further presented.

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