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A technique is described that is used to improve the detection of radio-frequency interference in astronomical radio observatories. It is applied on a two-dimensional interference mask after regular detection in the time-frequency domain…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-01 A. R. Offringa , J. J. van de Gronde , J. B. T. M. Roerdink

The sensitivity of radio astronomical stations is often limited by man-made radio frequency interference (RFI) due to a variety of terrestrial activities. An RFI mitigation subsystem (RFIMS) based on real-time digital signalprocessing is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 P. A. Fridman , W. A. Baan , R. P. Millenaar

Radio interferometers consisting of identical antennas arranged on a regular lattice permit fast Fourier transform beamforming, which reduces the correlation cost from $\mathcal{O}(n^2)$ in the number of antennas to $\mathcal{O}(n\log n)$.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-20 Kiyoshi W. Masui , J. Richard Shaw , Cherry Ng , Kendrick M. Smith , Keith Vanderlinde , Adiv Paradise

Context. Apertif is a multi-beam receiver system for the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope that operates at 1.1-1.5 GHz, which overlaps with various radio services, resulting in contamination of astronomical signals with radio-frequency…

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

DiFX is a correlator for VLBI data based on the FX architecture (first Fourier transform and then cross-multiply). DiFX is a free licensed software written in C++, developed and maintened by an international group of programmers. A new DiFX…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-03 G. Bruni , J. M. Anderson , W. Alef , A. Lobanov , J. A. Zensus

Signal artefacts due to Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) are a common nuisance in radio astronomy. Conventionally, the RFI-affected data are tagged by an expert data analyst in order to warrant data quality. In view of the increasing data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-30 Paul Ray Burd , Karl Mannheim , Tobias März , Jonas Ringholz , Alexander Kappes , Matthias Kadler

Very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) is a challenging observational technique, which requires in-depth knowledge about radio telescope instrumentation, interferometry, and the handling of noisy data. The reduction of the raw data is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Michael Janssen , Jack F. Radcliffe , Jan Wagner

Ramsey interferometry is a widely used tool for precisely measuring transition frequencies between two energy levels of a quantum system, with applications in time-keeping, precision spectroscopy, quantum optics, and quantum information.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-21 H. Hainzer , D. Kiesenhofer , T. Ollikainen , M. Bock , F. Kranzl , M. K. Joshi , G. Yoeli , R. Blatt , T. Gefen , C. F. Roos

Radio Frequency Fingerprinting Identification (RFFI) is a lightweight physical layer identity authentication technique. It identifies the radio-frequency device by analyzing the signal feature differences caused by the inevitable minor…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Donghong Cai , Jiahao Shan , Ning Gao , Bingtao He , Yingyang Chen , Shi Jin , Pingzhi Fan

Techniques to improve the data quality of interferometric radio observations are considered. Fundaments of fringe frequencies in the uv-plane are discussed and filters are used to attenuate radio-frequency interference (RFI) and off-axis…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-02 A. R. Offringa , A. G. de Bruyn , S. Zaroubi

Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) is one of the systematic challenges preventing 21cm interferometric instruments from detecting the Epoch of Reionization. To mitigate the effects of RFI on data analysis pipelines, numerous inpaint…

A Spectral Correlator is the main component of the real time signal processing for a Radio Telescope array. The correlation of signals received at each element with every other element of the array is a classic case of an application…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-02 Peeyush Prasad , C. R. Subrahmanya

In a search for short timescale astrophysical transients in time-domain data, radio-frequency interference (RFI) causes both large quantities of false positive candidates and a significant reduction in sensitivity if not correctly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-07 V. Morello , K. M. Rajwade , B. W. Stappers

Recently, correlation filters have demonstrated the excellent performance in visual tracking. However, the base training sample region is larger than the object region,including the Interference Region(IR). The IRs in training samples from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Nana Fan , Zhenyu He

Contemporary real-time RFI mitigation is carried out at different stages primarily using regulatory and technical approaches. Regulatory approaches include spectrum management, radio quiet zones, and ensuring protection from self-generated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-08 Kaushal D. Buch , Ruta Kale , Kishor D. Naik , Ajithkumar B. , Thushara Gunaratne , N. Habana , Gregory Hellbourg , Jane Kaczmarek , L. Petrov , Cedric Viou , Benjamin Winkel

Many important techniques for investigating the properties of extragalactic radio sources, such as spectral-index and rotation-measure mapping, involve the comparison of images at two or more frequencies. In the case of radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. M. Croke , D. C. Gabuzda

Future generations of radio interferometers targeting the 21\,cm signal at cosmological distances with $N\gg 1000$ antennas could face a significant computational challenge in building correlators with the traditional architecture, whose…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 Deepthi B. Gorthi , Aaron R. Parsons , Joshua S. Dillon

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 rapid development of new generation radio interferometers such as the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) has opened up unprecedented opportunities for astronomical research. However, anthropogenic Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-02 Haomin Sun , Hui Deng , Feng Wang , Ying Mei , Tingting Xu , Oleg Smirnov , Linhua Deng , Shoulin Wei