ICTS:32942

Making sure that your new transient is really what you think it is...

(2025). Making sure that your new transient is really what you think it is... . SciVideos. https://scivideos.org/index.php/icts-tifr/32942

Making sure that your new transient is really what you think it is... . SciVideos, Oct. 13, 2025, https://scivideos.org/index.php/icts-tifr/32942 

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            title = {Making sure that your new transient is really what you think it is... },
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Scott Ransom
Talk numberICTS:32942
Source RepositoryICTS-TIFR

Abstract

Modern instrumentation is allowing absolutely spectacular new surveys of large portions of the sky for time-domain astrophysical signals such as bursts and pulsations. However, the noise and background environments are also the worst they've ever been (and they aren't going to get better). In this talk I'll go over some tips for how you can make sure that your new super-duper algorithm and code is really finding the astrophysical signals that you think it is or should be. Amongst other things, I'll very briefly cover testing, statistics, injections, and the importance of making your software available to others.