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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

Detection and mitigation of radio frequency interference (RFI) is the first and also the key step for data processing in radio observations, especially for ongoing low frequency radio experiments towards the detection of the cosmic dawn and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-02 Yan Huang , Xiang-Ping Wu , Qian Zheng , Jun-Hua Gu , Haiguang Xu

Contamination by Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) is a ubiquitous challenge for radio astronomy. In particular, transient RFI is difficult to detect and avoid, especially in large data sets with many time bins. In this work, we present a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-04 Dominic Anstey , Samuel A. K. Leeney

Radio frequency interference (RFI) is a significant problem for current and future radio telescopes. We describe here a method for post-correlation cancellation of RFI for the special case of an extended source observed with an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Geoffrey C. Bower

Impulsive radio-frequency signals from astronomical sources are dispersed by the frequency dependent index of refraction of the interstellar media and so appear as chirped signals when they reach earth. Searches for dispersed impulses have…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 John Hogden , Scott Vander Wiel , Geoffrey C. Bower , Sarah Michalak , Andrew Siemion , Daniel Werthimer

Radio frequency interference (RFI) and malicious jammers are a significant problem in our wireless world. Detecting RFI or jamming is typically performed with model-based statistical detection or AI-empowered algorithms that use an input…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Christos Ntemkas , Antonios Argyriou

Radio-frequency interference (RFI) is a major systematic limitation in radio astronomy, particularly for science cases requiring high sensitivity, such as 21 cm cosmology. Traditionally, RFI is dealt with by identifying its signature in the…

Radio Frequency Interference (RFI), the presence of artificial and/or terrestrial signals in astronomical data, poses a great challenge to the search for pulsars and radio transients, such as Rotating Radio Transients (RRATs) and Fast Radio…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-15 R. S. Hombal , L. Levin , B. W. Stappers , M. Droog , A. Karastergiou , D. Lumbaa , M. B. Mickaliger , A. Naidu , K. M. Rajwade , J. Sepulveda , B. Shaw , S. Singh , T. Prabu

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

The growing level of radio frequency interference (RFI) is a recognized problem for research in radio astronomy. This paper describes an intuitive but powerful RFI cancellation technique that is suitable for radio spectroscopy where…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. H. Briggs , J. F. Bell , M. J. Kesteven

In radio astronomy, radio frequency interference (RFI) becomes more and more serious for radio observational facilities. The RFI always influences the search and study of the interesting astronomical objects. Mitigating the RFI becomes an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-03 Chuan-Peng Zhang , Jin-Long Xu , Jie Wang , Yingjie Jing , Ziming Liu , Ming Zhu , Peng Jiang

RFI mitigation in Radioastronomy can be achieved adopting cryogenic filters in appropriate typologies. A study has been conducted in L, C and X band with the evaluation of the filter architecture in copper, with theoretical estimation,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Tuccari , A. Caddemi , S. Barbarino , G. Nicotra , F. Consoli , F. Schilliro , F. Catalfamo

We propose a novel approach for mitigating radio frequency interference (RFI) signals in radio data using the latest advances in deep learning. We employ a special type of Convolutional Neural Network, the U-Net, that enables the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-16 Joel Akeret , Chihway Chang , Aurelien Lucchi , Alexandre Refregier

Radio frequency interference (RFI) is a significant challenge faced by today's radio astronomers. While most past efforts were devoted to cleaning the RFI from the data, we develop a novel method for categorizing and cataloguing RFI for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-07 Mao Yuan , Weiwei Zhu , Haiyan Zhang , Shijie Huang , Mengyao Xue , Di Li , Youling Yue , Pei Wang , 1 Jiarui Niu , Yuxuan Hu , Chunjiang Li , Chenchen Miao , Yu Wang , Lingqi Meng , Bo Peng

This paper studies analog beamforming in active sensing applications, such as millimeter-wave radar or ultrasound imaging. Analog beamforming architectures employ a single RF-IF chain connected to all array elements via inexpensive phase…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-24 Robin Rajamäki , Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri , Visa Koivunen

The knowledge of receiver beam shapes is essential for accurate radio interferometric imaging. Traditionally, this information is obtained by holographic techniques or by numerical simulation. However, such methods are not feasible for an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-19 Sarod Yatawatta

Hybrid beamforming via large antenna arrays has shown a great potential for increasing data rate in cellular networks by delivering multiple data streams simultaneously. In this paper, several beamforming design algorithms are proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Shahram Shahsavari , S. Amir Hosseini , Chris Ng , Elza Erkip

Because of the denser active use of the spectrum, and because of radio telescopes higher sensitivity, radio frequency interference (RFI) mitigation has become a sensitive topic for current and future radio telescope designs. Even if quite…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-03 Dumez-Viou Cédric , Weber Rodolphe , Ravier Philippe

Transient radio frequency interference (RFI) is detrimental to radio astronomy. It is particularly difficult to identify the sources of transient RFI, which is broadband and intermittent. Such RFI is often generated by devices like…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-08 Daniel Czech , Amit Mishra , Michael Inggs

Context. Multi-element phased-array radio telescopes use digital beamforming to widen their field-of-view with numerous tied-array beams (TABs). These beams share bandpass variations and radio frequency interference (RFI). Yet, most pulsar…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-16 Dirk Kuiper , Cees Bassa , Ziggy Pleunis , Jason Hessels