Pulsar surveys generate millions of candidates per run, overwhelming manual inspection. This thesis builds a deep learning pipeline for radio pulsar candidate selection that fuses array-derived features with image diagnostics. From approximately 500 GB of Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) data, raw voltages are converted to filterbanks (SIGPROC), then de-dispersed and folded across trial dispersion measures (PRESTO) to produce approximately 32,000 candidates. Each candidate yields four diagnostics--summed profile, time vs. phase, subbands vs. phase, and DM curve--represented as arrays and images. A baseline stacked model (ANNs for arrays + CNNs for images with logistic-regression fusion) reaches 68% accuracy. We then refine the CNN architecture and training (regularization, learning-rate scheduling, max-norm constraints) and mitigate class imbalance via targeted augmentation, including a GAN-based generator for the minority class. The enhanced CNN attains 87% accuracy; the final GAN+CNN system achieves 94% accuracy with balanced precision and recall on a held-out test set, while remaining lightweight enough for near--real-time triage. The results show that combining array and image channels improves separability over image-only approaches, and that modest generative augmentation substantially boosts minority (pulsar) recall. The methods are survey-agnostic and extensible to forthcoming high-throughput facilities.

This will be a journey into predicting whether or not observations, made by high powered telescopes on Earth and potentially deep space probes in the future, are pulsars. Before we jump into the machine learning model I have developed to help identify pulsars, let's talk a bit about what pulsars, or'pulsar stars', actually are since they aren't pulsating and actually aren't technically stars (anymore). Consider, for the sake of explanation, that stars have a life. If they are less massive, between 7 and 25 solar masses (7–25 times the mass of our sun) or maybe a bit larger if they are especially metal-rich, they then become neutron stars, a super-dense mass only around 10 kilometers in radius but so dense that a teaspoon full of their mass would be as heavy as Mt. Everest if placed on Earth.

It is an active topic to investigate the schemes based on machine learning (ML) methods for detecting pulsars as the data volume growing exponentially in modern surveys. To improve the detection performance, input features into an ML model should be investigated specifically. In the existing pulsar detection researches based on ML methods, there are mainly two kinds of feature designs: the empirical features and statistical features. Due to the combinational effects from multiple features, however, there exist some redundancies and even irrelevant components in the available features, which can reduce the accuracy of a pulsar detection model. Therefore, it is essential to select a subset of relevant features from a set of available candidate features and known as {\itshape feature selection.} In this work, two feature selection algorithms ----\textit{Grid Search} (GS) and \textit{Recursive Feature Elimination} (RFE)---- are proposed to improve the detection performance by removing the redundant and irrelevant features. The algorithms were evaluated on the Southern High Time Resolution University survey (HTRU-S) with five pulsar detection models. The experimental results verify the effectiveness and efficiency of our proposed feature selection algorithms. By the GS, a model with only two features reach a recall rate as high as 99\% and a false positive rate (FPR) as low as 0.65\%; By the RFE, another model with only three features achieves a recall rate 99\% and an FPR of 0.16\% in pulsar candidates classification. Furthermore, this work investigated the number of features required as well as the misclassified pulsars by our models.

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is an object storage service that offers high availability and reliability, easy scaling, security, and performance. Many companies all around the world use Amazon S3 to store and protect their data. PostgreSQL is an open-source object-relational database system. In addition to many useful features, PostgreSQL is highly extensible, and this allows to organize work with the most complicated data workloads easily. In this article, we will show how to load data into Amazon S3 and PostgreSQL, then how to connect these sources to Dremio, and how to perform data curation.