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The Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) aims to find technological signals of extra-solar origin. Radio frequency SETI is characterized by large unlabeled datasets and complex interference environment. The infinite…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-16 Yunfan Gerry Zhang , Ki Hyun Won , Seung Woo Son , Andrew Siemion , Steve Croft

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

Narrowband radio search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) in the 21st century suffers severely from radio frequency interference (RFI), resulting in a high number of false positives, and it could be the major reason why we have not…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-20 Bo-Lun Huang , Zhen-Zhao Tao , Tong-Jie Zhang

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

The implementation of the simultaneous combination of several telescopes (from four to eight) available at Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) will allow the new generation interferometric instrumentation to achieve interferometric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Corcione , D. Bonino , D. F. Busher , M. Gai , S. Ligori , D. Loreggia , G. Masssone , J. S. Young

Radio-frequency interference (RFI) is becoming an increasingly significant problem for most radio telescopes. Working with Green Bank Telescope data from PSR J1730+0747 in the form of complex-valued channelized voltages and their respective…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-14 Zhicheng Cao , Natalia A. Schmid , Kevin Bandura , Duncan R. Lorimer , Morgan Dameron , Katelyn Crockett , Clayton Grubick , Andreas Schmid , Shaonan Zheng

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

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

A radio telescope placed in lunar orbit, or on the surface of the Moon's farside, could be of great value to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). The advantage of such a telescope is that it would be shielded by the body of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-29 Eric J. Michaud , Andrew P. V. Siemion , Jamie Drew , S. Pete Worden

We apply classical machine vision and machine deep learning methods to prototype signal classifiers for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Our novel approach uses two-dimensional spectrograms of measured and simulated radio…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-08 G. R. Harp , Jon Richards , Seth Shostak Jill C. Tarter , Graham Mackintosh , Jeffrey D. Scargle , Chris Henze , Bron Nelson , G. A. Cox , S. Egly , S. Vinodababu , J. Voien

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

We present the first observations of the Sun with the Allen Telescope Array (ATA). We used up to six frequencies, from 1.43 to 6 GHz, and baselines from 6 to 300 m. To our knowledge, these are the first simultaneous multifrequency full-Sun…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-25 Pascal Saint-Hilaire , Gordon J. Hurford , Garrett Keating , Geoffrey C. Bower , Colby Gutierrez-Kraybill

Connected radio interferometers are sometimes used in the tied-array mode: signals from antenna elements are coherently added and the sum signal applied to a VLBI backend or pulsar processing machine. Usually there is no computer-controlled…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-09 P. A. Fridman

As a major approach to looking for life beyond the Earth, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is committed to detecting technosignatures such as engineered radio signals that are indicative of technologically capable life.…

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

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) targeted searches aim to observe specific areas and objects to find possible technosignatures. Many SETI researches have focused on nearby stars and their planets in recent years. In this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-10 Xiao-Hang Luan , Bo-Lun Huang , Zhen-Zhao Tao , Yan Cui , Tong-Jie Zhang , Pei Wang

We are designing and constructing a new SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) instrument to search for direct evidence of interstellar communications via pulsed laser signals at near-infrared wavelengths. The new instrument design…

Radio Searches for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence aim at detecting artificial transmissions from extra terrestrial communicative civilizations. The lack of prior knowledge concerning these potential transmissions increase the search…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-19 Gregory Hellbourg

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

The Atacama Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) remains unparalleled in sensitivity at radio frequencies above 35 GHz. In this paper, we explore ALMA's potential for narrowband technosignature detection, considering factors such as the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-02 Louisa A Mason , Michael A Garrett , Kelvin Wandia , Andrew P V Siemion