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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

We investigate the effect of radio-frequency interference (RFI) excision in estimating the cosmological \hi\ 21 cm power spectrum. Flagging of RFI-contaminated channels results in a non-uniform sampling of the instrumental bandpass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-27 Arnab Chakraborty , Abhirup Datta , Aishrila Mazumder

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

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

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

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

We describe the design and implementation of an extremely scalable real-time RFI mitigation method, based on the offline AOFlagger. All algorithms scale linearly in the number of samples. We describe how we implemented the flagger in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-31 Rob V. van Nieuwpoort

Radio frequency fingerprint identification (RFFI) is a promising device authentication technique based on the transmitter hardware impairments. In this paper, we propose a scalable and robust RFFI framework achieved by deep learning powered…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-08 Guanxiong Shen , Junqing Zhang , Alan Marshall , Joseph Cavallaro

Increasing levels of Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) are a problem for research in radio astronomy. Various techniques to suppress RFI and extract astronomical signals from data affected by interference are being tried out. However,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Jeeva Priya , D. Anish Roshi

In-correlator techniques offer the possibility of identifying and/or excising radio frequency interference (RFI) from interferometric observations at much higher time and/or frequency resolution than is generally possible with the final…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-03 Adam T. Deller

A new L-band 7 feed array at the 100-m telescope is used to perform an unbiased, fully sampled HI survey of the whole northern hemisphere - the Effelsberg-Bonn HI Survey (EBHIS). The use of state-of-the-art digital Fast Fourier Transform…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-15 L. Flöer , B. Winkel , J. Kerp

The "search for extraterrestrial intelligence" (SETI) commensal surveys aim to scan the sky to find possible technosignatures from the extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI). The mitigation of radio frequency interference (RFI) is an important…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-21 Yu-Chen Wang , Zhen-Zhao Tao , Zhi-Song Zhang , Cheqiu Lyu , Tingting Zhang , Tong-Jie Zhang , Dan Werthimer

Extragalactic fast radio bursts (FRBs) are a new class of astrophysical transients with unknown origins that have become a main focus of radio observatories worldwide. FRBs are highly energetic ($\sim 10^{36}$-$10^{42}$ ergs) flashes that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-18 Masoud Rafiei-Ravandi , Kendrick M. Smith

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 presents an overview of methods for mitigating radio frequency interference (RFI) in radio science data. The primary purpose of mitigation is to assist observatories to take useful data outside frequency bands allocated to the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-01 Willem A. Baan

Passive space-borne radiometers operating in the 1400-1427 MHz protected frequency band face radio frequency interference (RFI) from terrestrial sources. With the growth of wireless devices and the appearance of new technologies, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Ali Owfi , Fatemeh Afghah

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

Current and upcoming radio telescopes are being designed with increasing sensitivity to detect new and mysterious radio sources of astrophysical origin. While this increased sensitivity improves the likelihood of discoveries, it also makes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-17 Alessio Sclocco , Dany Vohl , Rob V. van Nieuwpoort

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

Radio interferometry calibration and Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) removal are usually done separately. Here we show that jointly modelling the antenna gains and RFI has significant benefits when the RFI follows precise trajectories,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-19 Chris Finlay , Bruce A. Bassett , Martin Kunz , Nadeem Oozeer