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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

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

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) and malicious jammers are a significant problem in our wireless world. Detecting RFI or jamming is typically performed with model-based statistical detection or AI-empowered algorithms that use an input…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Christos Ntemkas , Antonios Argyriou

Radio frequency interference (RFI) is a significant problem for current and future radio telescopes. We describe here a method for post-correlation cancellation of RFI for the special case of an extended source observed with an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Geoffrey C. Bower

Radio frequency interference (RFI) detection and excision are key steps in the data-processing pipeline of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). Because of its high sensitivity and large data rate, FAST requires…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-14 Zhicheng Yang , Ce Yu , Jian Xiao , Bo Zhang

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

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 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

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

Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) poses a significant challenge in radio astronomy, arising from terrestrial and celestial sources, disrupting observations conducted by radio telescopes. Addressing RFI involves intricate heuristic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Nicholas J. Pritchard , Andreas Wicenec , Mohammed Bennamoun , Richard Dodson

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 CHIME radio telescope operates in the frequency bandwidth of 400 to 800 MHz. The CHIME/FRB collaboration has a data pipeline that analyzes the data in real time, suppresses radio frequency interferences (RFI) and searches for FRBs.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-21 K. J. Luke

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…

With the ongoing growth in radio communications, there is an increased contamination of radio astronomical source data, which hinders the study of celestial radio sources. In many cases, fast mitigation of strong radio frequency…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-08 Zaid Bin Tariq , Teviet Creighton , Louis P. Dartez , Naofal Al-Dhahir , Murat Torlak

We investigate characteristics of radio frequency interference (RFI) signals that can affect the excision potential of some interference mitigation algorithms. The techniques considered are those that modify signals from auxiliary reference…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-01 D. A. Mitchell , J. G. Robertson

The growing need for electromagnetic spectrum to support the next generation (xG) communication networks increasingly generate unwanted radio frequency interference (RFI) in protected bands for radio astronomy. RFI is commonly mitigated at…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Shuvam Chakraborty , Gregory Hellbourg , Maqsood Careem , Dola Saha , Aveek Dutta

We propose a novel approach for mitigating radio frequency interference (RFI) signals in radio data using the latest advances in deep learning. We employ a special type of Convolutional Neural Network, the U-Net, that enables the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-16 Joel Akeret , Chihway Chang , Aurelien Lucchi , Alexandre Refregier

Radio astronomy observational facilities are under constant upgradation and development to achieve better capabilities including increasing the time and frequency resolutions of the recorded data, and increasing the receiving and recording…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-07 Tao An , Xiao Chen , P. Mohan , Bao-Qiang Lao

Studying the universe through radio telescope observation is crucial. However, radio telescopes capture not only signals from the universe but also various interfering signals, known as Radio Frequency Interference (RFI). The presence of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-02 Fei Gu , Longfei Hao , Bo Liang , Song Feng , Shoulin Wei , Wei Dai , Yonghua Xu , Zhixuan Li , Yihang Dao
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