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Many astronomical sources produce transient phenomena at radio frequencies, but the transient sky at low frequencies (<300 MHz) remains relatively unexplored. Blind surveys with new widefield radio instruments are setting increasingly…

Radio frequency interference (RFI) have been an enduring concern in radio astronomy, particularly for the observations of pulsars which require high timing precision and data sensitivity. In most works of the literature, RFI mitigation has…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-22 Xiao Zhang , Ismaël Cognard , Nicolas Dobigeon

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

Radio frequency interference (RFI) is the principal factor limiting the sensitivities of radio telescopes, particularly at frequencies below 1 GHz. I present a conceptually new approach to mitigation of RFI in interferometric data. This has…

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Radio interferometers are phased arrays producing high-resolution images from the covariance matrix of measurements. Calibration of such instruments is necessary and is a critical task. This is how the estimation of instrumental errors is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-26 Yassine Mhiri , Mohammed Nabil El Korso , Arnaud Breloy , Pascal Larzabal

In this paper we present the results of a survey for radio transients using data obtained from the Very Large Array archive. We have reduced, using a pipeline procedure, 5037 observations of the most common pointings - i.e. the calibrator…

The current data acquisition rate of astronomical transient surveys and the promise for significantly higher rates during in the next decade necessitate the development of novel approaches to analyze astronomical data sets and promptly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-28 Robert Strausbaugh , Antonino Cucchiara , Michael Dow , Sara Webb , Jielai Zhang , Simon Goode , Jeff Cooke

Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) has historically plagued radio astronomy, worsening with the rapid spread of electronics and increasing telescope sensitivity. We present a multi-dimensional probabilistic framework for characterising the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-25 Isaac Sihlangu , Nadeem Oozeer , Bruce A. Bassett

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) greatly reduces sensitivity of radio observations to astrophysical signals and creates false positive candidates in searches for radio transients. Real signals are missed while considerable computational…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-06 Joseph W. Kania , Kevin Bandura , Duncan R. Lorimer , Richard Prestage

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 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

Running Median Subtraction Filter (RMSF) is a robust statistical tool for removing slowly varying baselines in data streams containing transients (short-duration signals) of interest. In this work, we explore the RMSF performance and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-07 Arko P. Sen , Andrey Sarantsev , Geoffrey Blewitt , Andrei Derevianko

Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) is unwanted noise that swamps the desired astronomical signal. Radio astronomers have always had to deal with RFI detection and excision around telescope sites, but little has been done to understand the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-17 Isaac Sihlangu , Nadeem Oozeer , Bruce Bassett

Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) is a growing concern in the radio astronomy community. Single-dish telescopes are particularly susceptible to RFI. Several methods have been developed to cope with RF-polluted environments, based on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 R. Finger , F. Curotto , R. Fuentes , R. Duan , L. Bronfman , D. Li

Radio interferometric observations are less susceptible to radio frequency interference (RFI) than single dish observations. This is primarily due to : (1)fringe-frequency averaging at the correlator output and (2) bandwidth decorrelation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Anish Roshi , R. A. Perley

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 "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

We present an initial analysis of Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) flagging statistics from archived Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) observations for the 'Survey and Monitoring of ASKAP's RFI environment and Trends' (SMART) project. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-25 L. Lourenço , A. P. Chippendale , B. Indermuehle , V. A. Moss , Tara Murphy , T. J. Galvin , G. Hellbourg , A. W. Hotan , E. Lenc , M. T. Whiting

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