GPU accelerated image quality assessment-based software for transient detection

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Fast imaging localises celestial transients using source finders in the image domain. The need for high computational throughput in this process is driven by nextgeneration telescopes such as Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which, upon completion, will be the world’s largest aperture synthesis radio telescope. It will collect data at unprecedented velocity and volume. Due to the vast amounts of data the SKA will produce, current source finders based on source extraction may be inefficient in a wide-field search. In this paper, we focus on the software development of GPUaccelerated transient finders based on Image Quality Assessment (IQA) methods — Low-Information Similarity Index (LISI) and augmented LISI (augLISI). We accelerate the algorithms using GPUs, achieving kernel time of approximately 0.1 milliseconds for transient finding in 2048 × 2048 images.

Authors: Li, X; Adamek, K; Armour, W

• Publication status: Accepted
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Astronomical Society of the Pacific
• Series: ADASS Conference Series
• Acceptance date: 2024-09-06
• Event title: 34th Annual Conference on Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS 2024)
• Event location: Valetta, Malta
• Event website: https://www.um.edu.mt/events/adass2024/
• Event start date: 2024-11-10
• Event end date: 2024-11-14
• Language: English