Neural network (NN) based methods are applied to the detection of radio frequency interference (RFI) in post-correlation,post-calibration time/frequency data. While calibration doesaffect RFI for the sake of this work a reduced dataset inpost-calibration is used. Two machine learning approachesfor flagging real measurement data are demonstrated usingthe existing RFI flagging technique AOFlagger as a groundtruth. It is shown that a single layer fully connects networkcan be trained using each time/frequency sample individuallywith the magnitude and phase of each polarization and Stokesvisibilities as features. This method was able to predict aBoolean flag map for each baseline to a high degree of accuracy achieving a Recall of 0.69 and Precision of 0.83 and anF1-Score of 0.75.
@article{arxiv.2007.14996,
title = {Supervised Neural Networks for RFI Flagging},
author = {Kyle Harrison and Amit Kumar Mishra},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.14996},
year = {2020}
}
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This paper has been published in the Proceedings of RFI 2019 Workshop by IEEE Xplorer at: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/9108774/proceeding