Denoising radio pulses from air showers using machine-learning methods

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Main Authors: Benoit-Lévy, Aurélien, Lai, Zhisen, Macias, Oscar, Ferrière, Arsène
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author Benoit-Lévy, Aurélien
Lai, Zhisen
Macias, Oscar
Ferrière, Arsène
author_facet Benoit-Lévy, Aurélien
Lai, Zhisen
Macias, Oscar
Ferrière, Arsène
contents The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) aims to detect radio signals from extensive air showers (EAS) caused by ultra-high-energy (UHE) cosmic particles. Galactic, hardware-like, and anthropogenic noise are expected to contaminate these signals. To address this problem, we propose training a supervised convolutional network known as an encoder-decoder. This network is used to learn a coded representation of the data and remove specific features from it. This denoiser is trained using high-fidelity air shower simulations specifically tailored to replicate the characteristics of signals detected by GRAND. In this contribution, we describe our machine-learning model and report initial results demonstrating the sensitivity enhancement resulting from our denoising algorithm when applied to realistically simulated GRAND signals with varying signal-to-noise ratios.
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spellingShingle Denoising radio pulses from air showers using machine-learning methods
Benoit-Lévy, Aurélien
Lai, Zhisen
Macias, Oscar
Ferrière, Arsène
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) aims to detect radio signals from extensive air showers (EAS) caused by ultra-high-energy (UHE) cosmic particles. Galactic, hardware-like, and anthropogenic noise are expected to contaminate these signals. To address this problem, we propose training a supervised convolutional network known as an encoder-decoder. This network is used to learn a coded representation of the data and remove specific features from it. This denoiser is trained using high-fidelity air shower simulations specifically tailored to replicate the characteristics of signals detected by GRAND. In this contribution, we describe our machine-learning model and report initial results demonstrating the sensitivity enhancement resulting from our denoising algorithm when applied to realistically simulated GRAND signals with varying signal-to-noise ratios.
title Denoising radio pulses from air showers using machine-learning methods
topic Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06688