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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

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

The discovery of interstellar communication signals is complicated by the presence of radio interference. Consequently, interstellar communication signals are hypothesized to have properties that favor discovery in high levels of local…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-21 William J. Crilly

Integrated sensing and communication is a key feature in next-generation wireless networks, enabling joint data transmission and environmental radar sensing on shared spectrum. In multi-user scenarios, simultaneous transmissions cause…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Laurits Randers , Martin Voigt Vejling , Petar Popovski

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

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

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 this paper, we propose a novel method for distinguishing extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) signals from radio frequency interference (RFI) by leveraging polarization features. We exploit the sinusoidal variation of the linearly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-08 Jian-Kang Li , Yu Chen , Zhen-Zhao Tao , Xiao-Hang Luan , Tong-Jie Zhang , Bo-Lun Huang , Xiao-Hui Sun , Vishal Gajjar

Techniques to improve the data quality of interferometric radio observations are considered. Fundaments of fringe frequencies in the uv-plane are discussed and filters are used to attenuate radio-frequency interference (RFI) and off-axis…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-02 A. R. Offringa , A. G. de Bruyn , S. Zaroubi

In radio astronomy, reference signals from auxiliary antennas that receive only the radio frequency interference (RFI) can be modified to model the RFI environment at the astronomy receivers. The RFI can then be canceled from the astronomy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 D. A. Mitchell , J. G. Robertson , R. J. Sault

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 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

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

Current mm/submm interferometers, like the Atacama Large mm/submm Array (ALMA), use receivers that register the sky signal in a linear polarization basis. In the case of observations performed in full-polarization mode (where the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 I. Marti-Vidal , W. H. T. Vlemmings , S. Muller

Radio frequency interference (RFI) already limits the sensitivity of existing radio telescopes in several frequency bands and may prove to be an even greater obstacle for future generation instruments to overcome. I aim to create a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 P. A. Fridman

Single-mode optical fibres exhibit a small but non-negligible birefringence that induces random polarisation rotations during light propagation. In classical interferometry these rotations give rise to polarisation-induced fading of the…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-12 Teodor Strömberg , Peter Schiansky , Philip Walther

Radio-astronomical observations are increasingly corrupted by RF interference, and online detection and filtering algorithms are becoming essential. To facilitate the introduction of such techniques into radio astronomy, we formulate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Amir Leshem , Alle-Jan van der Veen , Albert-Jan Boonstra

With the installation of next-generation phased array feed (PAF) receivers on radio telescopes, there is an urgent need to develop effective and computationally efficient radio frequency interference (RFI) mitigation methods for large-scale…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Juntao Bai , Shi Dai , Na Wang , Stefan Osłowski , Shuangqiang Wang , George Hobbs , Jianping Yuan , Wenming Yan , Qijun Zhi , Lunhua Shang , Xin Xu , Shijun Dang , De Zhao

RFI mitigation is a critically important issue in radio astronomy using existing instruments as well as in the development of next-generation radio telescopes, such as the Square Kilometer Array (SKA). Most designs for the SKA involve…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 N. D. R. Bhat , J. M. Cordes , S. Chatterjee , T. J. W. Lazio

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