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Radio-frequency interference (RFI) presents a significant obstacle to current radio interferometry experiments aimed at the Epoch of Reionization. RFI contamination is often several orders of magnitude brighter than the astrophysical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-05 Jade M. Ducharme , Jonathan C. Pober

Intentional and unintentional interferences collectively referred to as Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) result in severe security threat to the public safety, first responder emergency rescue and military missions. Such RFI if not…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-05 Anu Jagannath , Jithin Jagannath

Radio frequency fingerprint identification (RFFI) is an emerging device authentication technique, which exploits the hardware characteristics of the RF front-end as device identifiers. RFFI is implemented in the wireless receiver and acts…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-08 Guanxiong Shen , Junqing Zhang , Alan Marshall , Roger Woods , Joseph Cavallaro , Liquan Chen

Radio frequency fingerprinting (RFF) is a promising device authentication technique for securing the Internet of things. It exploits the intrinsic and unique hardware impairments of the transmitters for RF device identification. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-26 Yuan Zeng , Yi Gong , Jiawei Liu , Shangao Lin , Zidong Han , Ruoxiao Cao , Kaibin Huang , Khaled Ben Letaief

We present a novel neural network (NN) method for the detection and removal of Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) from the raw digitized signal in the signal processing chain of a typical radio astronomy experiment. The main advantage of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 Benjamin R. B. Saliwanchik , Anže Slosar

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 fingerprint identification (RFFI) is an emerging method for authenticating Internet of Things (IoT) devices. RFFI exploits the intrinsic and unique hardware imperfections for classifying IoT devices. Deep learning-based RFFI…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Jie Ma , Junqing Zhang , Guanxiong Shen , Linning Peng , Alan Marshall

Radio-frequency interference detection and flagging is one of the most difficult and urgent problems in 21 cm Epoch of Reionization research. In this work, we present $\chi^2$ from redundant calibration as a novel method for RFI detection…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-28 Theodora Kunicki , Jonathan C. Pober

Radio frequency fingerprint identification (RFFI) is becoming increasingly popular, especially in applications with constrained power, such as the Internet of Things (IoT). Due to subtle manufacturing variations, wireless devices have…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-11 Lu Yang , Seyit Camtepe , Yansong Gao , Vicky Liu , Dhammika Jayalath

Modern radio astronomy instruments generate vast amounts of data, and the increasingly challenging radio frequency interference (RFI) environment necessitates ever-more sophisticated RFI rejection algorithms. The "needle in a haystack"…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-22 Peter Xiangyuan Ma , Steve Croft , Chris Lintott , Andrew P. V. Siemion

Context. With the arrival of the next generation of ground-based imaging interferometers combining from 4 to possibly 6 telescopes simultaneously, there is also a strong need for a new generation of fringe trackers able to cophase such…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 N. Blind , O. Absil , J. -B. Lebouquin , J. -P. Berger , A. Chelli

Radio frequency interference (RFI) mitigation and radar echo recovery are critically important for the proper functioning of ultra-wideband (UWB) radar systems using one-bit sampling techniques. We recently introduced a technique for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-22 Tianyi Zhang , Jiaying Ren , Jian Li , Lam H. Nguyen , Petre Stoica

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 presents the effects of radio frequency interference (RFI) mitigation on a radio telescope's sensitivity and beam pattern. It specifically explores the impact of subspace-projection mitigation on the phased array feed (PAF) beams…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-28 Liroy Lourenco , Aaron P Chippendale

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

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…

We investigate the effectiveness of the statistical radio frequency interference (RFI) mitigation technique spectral kurtosis (SK) in the face of simulated realistic RFI signals. SK estimates the kurtosis of a collection of M power values…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Evan T. Smith , Ryan Lynch , D. J. Pisano

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 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