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Real-Time Burst Search Agreed With Offline Processing

Heimdall's ring-buffer and file modes stayed within 3% on arrival time and dispersion measure, and within 10% on signal-to-noise.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-09-19-017
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Summary

Heimdall's ring-buffer and file modes stayed within 3% on arrival time and dispersion measure, and within 10% on signal-to-noise.

Tests on Northern Cross telescope data compared PSRDADA memory buffers with SIGPROC files. Real-time execution kept pace for most runs containing true fast radio bursts, while the authors frame the work as preparatory for beamformer integration rather than a finished observatory pipeline.

Why it matters

Heimdall's ring-buffer and file modes stayed within 3% on arrival time and dispersion measure, and within 10% on signal-to-noise.

Limits and context

No additional limitation was separately recorded.

Key claims

  1. Heimdall's ring-buffer and file modes stayed within 3% on arrival time and dispersion measure, and within 10% on signal-to-noise.

    Evidence: source-2026-09-19-019

Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2609.20635arXiv · primary research

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