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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

Searching for fleeting radio transients like fast radio bursts (FRBs) with wide-field radio telescopes has become a common challenge in data-intensive science. Conventional algorithms normally cost enormous time to seek candidates by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-23 Yao Chen , Rui Luo , Chen Wang , Yong-Kun Zhang , Shiqian Zhao , Chengbing Lyu , ZePeng Zheng , Hai Lei , DeJiang Zhou , Chenhui Niu , JinLin Han , George Hobbs , Di Li , Chengwei Liang , Siyi Tan , Ting Tian

Traditionally, fast radio transient searches are conducted on dedispersed time series using thresholding techniques based on the statistical properties of the data. However, peaks in dedispersed time series do not directly provide…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-25 Sergio Belmonte Diaz , Rene P. Breton , Zafiirah Hosenie , Ben W. Stappers

With the installation of next-generation phased array feed (PAF) receivers on radio telescopes, there is an urgent need to develop effective and computationally efficient radio frequency interference (RFI) mitigation methods for large-scale…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Juntao Bai , Shi Dai , Na Wang , Stefan Osłowski , Shuangqiang Wang , George Hobbs , Jianping Yuan , Wenming Yan , Qijun Zhi , Lunhua Shang , Xin Xu , Shijun Dang , De Zhao

We demonstrate a new technique for detecting radio transients based on interferometric closure quantities. The technique uses the bispectrum, the product of visibilities around a closed-loop of baselines of an interferometer. The bispectrum…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Casey J. Law , Geoffrey C. Bower

Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) increasingly contaminates the radio astronomy spectrum, often exceeding astronomical signal amplitudes by 50-70 dB. Reliable detection and mitigation are therefore essential for studies of faint transient…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-08 Natalia A. Schmid , Sasanka Katreddi , Yechan Kweon

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

Radio transients are sporadic signals and their detection requires that the backends of radio telescopes be equipped with the appropriate hardware and software to undertake this. Observational programs to detect transients can be dedicated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 P. A. Fridman

We present an implementation of the coherent dedispersion algorithm capable of dedispersing high-time-resolution radio observations to many different dispersion measures (DMs). This approach allows the removal of the dispersive effects of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-05 C. G. Bassa , Z. Pleunis , J. W. T. Hessels

In index modulation schemes, information bits are conveyed through indexing of transmission entities such as antennas, subcarriers, times slots, precoders, subarrays, and radio frequency (RF) mirrors. Index modulation schemes are attractive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-13 Bharath Shamasundar , Swaroop Jacob , Sandeep Bhat , A. Chockalingam

A distributed detection scheme where the sensors transmit with constant modulus signals over a Gaussian multiple access channel is considered. The deflection coefficient of the proposed scheme is shown to depend on the characteristic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Cihan Tepedelenlioglu , Sivaraman Dasarathan

Isolated, short dispersed pulses of radio emission of unknown origin have been reported and there is strong interest in wide-field, sensitive searches for such events. To achieve high sensitivity, large collecting area is needed and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-12 Nathan Clarke , Larry D'Addario , Robert Navarro , Joseph Trinh

As radio telescopes become more sensitive, the damaging effects of radio frequency interference (RFI) become more apparent. Near radio telescope arrays, RFI sources are often easily removed or replaced; the challenge lies in identifying…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-01 Daniel Czech , Amit Mishra , Michael Inggs

Recent investigations reveal an important new class of transient radio phenomena that occur on sub-millisecond timescales. Often transient surveys' data volumes are too large to archive exhaustively. Instead, an on-line automatic system…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 David R. Thompson , Kiri L. Wagstaff , Walter Brisken , Adam T. Deller , Walid A. Majid , Steven J. Tingay , Randall B. Wayth

Blind modulation classification is an important step to implement cognitive radio networks. The multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technique is widely used in military and civil communication systems. Due to the lack of prior information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Weiheng Jiang , Xiaogang Wu , Bolin Chen , Wenjiang Feng , Yi Jin

The problem of efficient modulation classification (MC) in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems is considered. Per-layer likelihood-based MC is proposed by employing subspace decomposition to partially decouple the transmitted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-12 Hadi Sarieddeen , Mohammad M. Mansour , Ali Chehab

Pulsar searches are computationally demanding efforts to discover dispersed periodic signals in time- and frequency-resolved data from radio telescopes. The complexity and computational expense of simultaneously determining the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 Lars Künkel , Rajat M. Thomas , Joris P. W. Verbiest

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

Astronomical radio bursts disperse while traveling through the interstellar medium. To optimally detect a short-duration signal within a frequency band, we have to precisely compensate for the pulse dispersion, which is a computationally…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 Barak Zackay , Eran O. Ofek

We demonstrate a hybrid distributed fiber sensing system for multi-parameter detection. The integration of phase-sensitive optical time domain reflectometry ({\Phi}-OTDR) and Brillouin optical time domain reflectometry (B-OTDR) enables…

Optics · Physics 2016-09-02 Jingdong Zhang , Tao Zhu , Huan Zhou , Yang Li , Min Liu , Wei Huang
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