ASTRA synthetic gating demo (preprint + reproducibility package)

ASTRA synthetic gating demo (v5) is a synthetic, fixed-seed demonstration of how an amplitude-based gating (preprocessing) step can suppress a short burst-like transient before downstream scoring, and how to audit that effect with fully reproducible artifacts. Motivating context: this synthetic demonstration was inspired by the reported micro-glitch candidate in PSR J0900–3144 (Bhat et al., 2025); no detector data are analyzed here and no detection is claimed. This deposit is method-focused: it does not contain proprietary detector data and it does not claim any astrophysical detection. The goal is to provide a transparent, citable reference implementation and an audited reproduction package. What’s included: paper.pdf — the preprint manuscript describing the setup, gate, and reported proxy statistics ASTRA_Source_v5.zip — clean LaTeX sources (includes paper.bbl and references.bib) ASTRA_Ancillary_v5.zip — reproducibility artifacts (logs/tables and generated outputs used in the paper) COMPILE_AUDIT_25X_v5.txt — 25× clean-room compilation audit (25/25 passes) SHA256SUMS.txt — SHA-256 checksums for integrity verification Reproducibility (PDF build): Extract ASTRA_Source_v5.zip Run: pdflatex paper.tex; bibtex paper; pdflatex paper.tex; pdflatex paper.tex Versioning note: this Zenodo record provides a stable DOI-backed archive for citation.