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Radio astronomy observations in the coming decade will require new levels of sensitivity while mapping large regions of space with much greater efficiency than is achieved with current telescopes. This requires new instrumentation with the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-30 Matthew A. Morgan , J. Richard Fisher

We describe and compare several post-correlation radio frequency interference classification methods. As data sizes of observations grow with new and improved telescopes, the need for completely automated, robust methods for radio frequency…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-14 A. R. Offringa , A. G. de Bruyn , M. Biehl , S. Zaroubi , G. Bernardi , V. N. Pandey

We present a novel neural network (NN) method for the detection and removal of Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) from the raw digitized signal in the signal processing chain of a typical radio astronomy experiment. The main advantage of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 Benjamin R. B. Saliwanchik , Anže Slosar

The dynamics of quantum systems are unavoidably influenced by their environment and in turn observing a quantum system (probe) can allow one to measure its environment: Measurements and controlled manipulation of the probe such as dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-16 Matthias M. Müller , Stefano Gherardini , Filippo Caruso

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-24 Sarod Yatawatta

This paper focuses on robust transceiver design for throughput enhancement on the interference channel (IC), under imperfect channel state information (CSI). In this paper, two algorithms are proposed to improve the throughput of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Ali Dalir , Hassan Aghaeinia , Mohammad Kazemi

Matter-wave interferometry with solids is highly susceptible to minute fluctuations of environmental fields, including gravitational effects from distant sources. Hence, experiments require a degree of shielding that is extraordinarily…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-23 Julen S. Pedernales , Martin B. Plenio

Radio frequency interference (RFI) detection and excision are key steps in the data-processing pipeline of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). Because of its high sensitivity and large data rate, FAST requires…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-14 Zhicheng Yang , Ce Yu , Jian Xiao , Bo Zhang

Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) is threatening modern radio astronomy. A classic approach to mitigate its impact on astronomical data involves discarding the corrupted time and frequency data samples through a process called flagging and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-28 Gregory Hellbourg , Ian Morrison

Future wireless networks and sensing systems will benefit from access to large chunks of spectrum above 100 GHz, to achieve terabit-per-second data rates in 6th Generation (6G) cellular systems and improve accuracy and reach of Earth…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-14 Paolo Testolina , Michele Polese , Josep M. Jornet , Tommaso Melodia , Michele Zorzi

Several post-detection approaches to the mitigation of radio-frequency interference (RFI) are compared by applying them to the strong RFI from the Iridium satellites. These provide estimates for the desired signal in the presence of RFI, by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-02 Avinash A. Deshpande , B. M. Lewis

Active Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) mitigation becomes a necessity for radio astronomy. The solution commonly applied by the community consists in monitoring the statistics of the received signal, and flag out the detected corrupted…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-12 Gregory Hellbourg

Increasing data volumes delivered by a new generation of radio interferometers require computationally efficient and robust calibration algorithms. In this paper, we propose distributed calibration as a way of improving both computational…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Sarod Yatawatta

Many scientific deliverables of the next generation low frequency radio telescopes require high dynamic range imaging. Next generation telescopes under construction indeed promise at least a ten-fold increase in the sensitivity compared…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-03 S. Bhatnagar

State filtering is a key problem in many signal processing applications. From a series of noisy measurement, one would like to estimate the state of some dynamic system. Existing techniques usually adopt a Gaussian noise assumption which…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-12-16 Bin Liu

The spatial-frequency coverage of a radio interferometer is increased by combining samples acquired at different times and observing frequencies. However, astrophysical sources often contain complicated spatial structure that varies within…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 U. Rau

Complex systems exhibit rich equilibrium states, yet the universal principles governing these systems remain unrevealed, motivating the search for novel experimental platforms. Random fiber lasers (RFLs), which generate partially-coherent…

As radio telescopes become sensitive, radio frequency interference (RFI) is more and more serious for interesting signals of radio astronomy. There exist demands for developing an automatic, accurate and efficient RFI mitigation method.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-27 Qingguo Zeng , Xue Chen , Xiangru Li , J. L. Han , Chen Wang , D. J. Zhou , Tao Wang

Studying the universe through radio telescope observation is crucial. However, radio telescopes capture not only signals from the universe but also various interfering signals, known as Radio Frequency Interference (RFI). The presence of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-02 Fei Gu , Longfei Hao , Bo Liang , Song Feng , Shoulin Wei , Wei Dai , Yonghua Xu , Zhixuan Li , Yihang Dao

Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) from anthropogenic radio sources poses significant challenges to current and future radio telescopes. Contemporary approaches to detecting RFI treat the task as a semantic segmentation problem on radio…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Nicholas J Pritchard , Andreas Wicenec , Mohammed Bennamoun , Richard Dodson