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Polarization-based online interference mitigation in radio interferometry

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2020-07-24 v2 Applications

Abstract

Mitigation of radio frequency interference (RFI) is essential to deliver science-ready radio interferometric data to astronomers. In this paper, using dual polarized radio interferometers, we propose to use the polarization information of post-correlation interference signals to detect and mitigate them. We use the directional statistics of the polarized signals as the detection criteria and formulate a distributed, wideband spectrum sensing problem. Using consensus optimization, we solve this in an online manner, working with mini-batches of data. We present extensive results based on simulations to demonstrate the feasibility of our method.

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@article{arxiv.2006.00062,
  title  = {Polarization-based online interference mitigation in radio interferometry},
  author = {Sarod Yatawatta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.00062},
  year   = {2020}
}

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EUSIPCO 2020 accepted

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