The High Time Resolution Universe survey XIV: Discovery of 23 pulsars through GPU-accelerated reprocessing. (arXiv:1811.04929v1 [astro-ph.IM])
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We have performed a new search for radio pulsars in archival data of the
intermediate and high Galactic latitude parts of the Southern High Time
Resolution Universe pulsar survey. This is the first time the entire dataset
has been searched for binary pulsars, an achievement enabled by GPU-accelerated
dedispersion and periodicity search codes nearly 50 times faster than the
previously used pipeline. Candidate selection was handled entirely by a Machine
Learning algorithm, allowing for the assessment of 17.6 million candidates in a
few person-days. We have also introduced an outlier detection algorithm for
efficient radio-frequency interference (RFI) mitigation on folded data, a new
approach that enabled the discovery of pulsars previously masked by RFI. We
discuss implications for future searches, particularly the importance of
expanding work on RFI mitigation to improve survey completeness. In total we
discovered 23 previously unknown sources, including 6 millisecond pulsars and
at least 4 pulsars in binary systems. We also found an elusive but credible
redback candidate that we have yet to confirm.

We have performed a new search for radio pulsars in archival data of the
intermediate and high Galactic latitude parts of the Southern High Time
Resolution Universe pulsar survey. This is the first time the entire dataset
has been searched for binary pulsars, an achievement enabled by GPU-accelerated
dedispersion and periodicity search codes nearly 50 times faster than the
previously used pipeline. Candidate selection was handled entirely by a Machine
Learning algorithm, allowing for the assessment of 17.6 million candidates in a
few person-days. We have also introduced an outlier detection algorithm for
efficient radio-frequency interference (RFI) mitigation on folded data, a new
approach that enabled the discovery of pulsars previously masked by RFI. We
discuss implications for future searches, particularly the importance of
expanding work on RFI mitigation to improve survey completeness. In total we
discovered 23 previously unknown sources, including 6 millisecond pulsars and
at least 4 pulsars in binary systems. We also found an elusive but credible
redback candidate that we have yet to confirm.

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