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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

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

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) promise efficient and dynamic spatio-temporal data processing. This paper reformulates a significant challenge in radio astronomy, Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) detection, as a time-series segmentation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Nicholas J. Pritchard , Andreas Wicenec , Mohammed Bennamoun , Richard Dodson

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

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

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

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

We describe the parameters of a low-frequency all-sky survey of compact radio sources using Interplanetary Scintillation (IPS), undertaken with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). While this survey gives important complementary information…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-08 J. S. Morgan , J-P. Macquart , R. Chhetri , R. D. Ekers , S. J. Tingay , E. M. Sadler

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 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

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Ramana Athreya

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

In this paper, we investigate real-time interference mitigation in multiuser wireless networks assisted by simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RISs). Unlike conventional methods that rely on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Abuzar B. M. Adam , Mohammed A. M. Elhassan , Elhadj Moustapha Diallo , Mohamed Amine Ouamri

Detecting and mitigating Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) is critical for enabling and maximising the scientific output of radio telescopes. The emergence of machine learning methods has led to their application in radio astronomy, and in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-23 Nicholas J. Pritchard , Andreas Wicenec , Mohammed Bennamoun , Richard Dodson

In radio astronomy, radio frequency interference (RFI) becomes more and more serious for radio observational facilities. The RFI always influences the search and study of the interesting astronomical objects. Mitigating the RFI becomes an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-03 Chuan-Peng Zhang , Jin-Long Xu , Jie Wang , Yingjie Jing , Ziming Liu , Ming Zhu , Peng Jiang

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

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) commensal surveys aim to scan the sky to detect technosignatures from extraterrestrial life. A major challenge in SETI is the effective mitigation of radio frequency interference (RFI), a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Li-Li Zhao , Xiao-Hang Luan , Xin Chao , Yu-Chen Wang , Jian-Kang Li , Zhen-Zhao Tao , Tong-Jie Zhang , Hong-Feng Wang , Dan Werthimer

We present the first survey of radio frequency interference (RFI) at the future site of the low frequency Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO), that both temporally and spatially resolves the RFI.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Steven Tingay , Marcin Sokolowski , Randall Wayth , Daniel Ung

We present two algorithms to identify and flag radio frequency interference (RFI) in radio interferometric imaging data. The first algorithm utilizes the redundancy of visibilities inside a UV cell in the visibility plane to identify…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-27 Srikrishna Sekhar , Ramana Athreya
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