Transient PULSE: Code for the Transient Propagation of UltraLight (pseudo)Scalars to Earth

arXiv:2610.20601 · hep-ph, astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.IM, physics.comp-ph · Submitted 2026-10-14 · Read on arXiv

hep-ph, astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.IM, physics.comp-ph

Submitted: 2026-10-14

Updated: 2026-10-14

Comments: 17 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The gist: We present Transient PULSE, a software package that numerically implements a previously developed source-to-detector framework for transient ultralight bosonic signals from astrophysical bursts.

Abstract

We present Transient PULSE, a software package that numerically implements a previously developed source-to-detector framework for transient ultralight bosonic signals from astrophysical bursts. Predicting these signals relies on connecting the source emission spectrum to its evolution during propagation and the resulting observables at a terrestrial detector. The package discretizes a user supplied energy spectrum into momentum modes, propagates them through a specified matter density profile and constructs the time-frequency energy density distribution at Earth, accounting for dispersion and in-medium screening effects. This treatment accommodates non-Gaussian source spectra and provides inputs for detector specific analyses. A complementary analytical module estimates coupling sensitivities, arrival time delays and screening thresholds from parameterized source and detector properties.

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