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With the development of modern radio interferometers, wide-field continuum surveys have been planned and undertaken, for which accurate wide-field imaging methods are essential. Based on the widely-used W-stacking method, we propose a new…

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Low-frequency radio observatories are reaching unprecedented levels of sensitivity in an effort to detect the 21 cm signal from the Cosmic Dawn. High precision is needed because the expected signal is overwhelmed by foreground…

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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 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

The ionosphere is the main driver of a series of systematic effects that limit our ability to explore the low frequency (<1 GHz) sky with radio interferometers. Its effects become increasingly important towards lower frequencies and are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 F. de Gasperin , M. Mevius , D. A. Rafferty , H. T. Intema , R. A. Fallows

We study the impact of the 1/f noise on the PLANCK Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) osbervations (Mandolesi et al 1998) and describe a simple method for removing striping effects from the maps for a number of different scanning stategies. A…

The emission from neutral hydrogen (HI) clouds in the post-reionization era (z < 6), too faint to be individually detected, is present as a diffuse background in all low frequency radio observations below 1420 MHz. The angular and frequency…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-29 Somnath Bharadwaj , Shiv K. Sethi , Tarun Deep Saini

The Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) is being upgraded to increase the receiver sensitivity. This makes the receiver more susceptible to man-made Radio Frequency Interference (RFI). To improve the receiver performance in presence of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Kaushal D. Buch , Kishor Naik , Swapnil Nalawade , Shruti Bhatporia , Yashwant Gupta , B Ajithkumar

Pulsar detection and timing experiments are applications where adaptive filters seem eminently suitable tools for radio-frequency-interference (RFI) mitigation. We describe a novel variant which works well in field trials of pulsar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. Kesteven , G. Hobbs , R. Clement , B. Dawson , R. Manchester , T. Uppal

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

The Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is increasingly vulnerable to radio frequency interference (RFI), including jamming and spoofing, which threaten the integrity of navigation and timing services. This paper presents a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Argyris Kriezis , Yu-Hsuan Chen , Dennis Akos , Sherman Lo , Todd Walter

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

The destriping technique is a viable tool for removing different kinds of systematic effects in CMB related experiments. It has already been proven to work for gain instabilities that produce the so-called 1/f noise and periodic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Keihanen , H. Kurki-Suonio , T. Poutanen , D. Maino , C. Burigana

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

BIGHORNS is a total power radiometer developed to identify the signal from the Epoch of Reionisation in the all-sky averaged radio spectrum at low frequencies (70-300 MHz). In October 2014, the system with a conical log spiral antenna was…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-24 Marcin Sokolowski , Randall B. Wayth , Tyler Ellement

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will survey a large area of the sky at near-infrared wavelengths with its Wide Field Instrument (WFI). The performance of the 18 WFI H4RG-10 detectors will need to be well-characterized and regularly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-04 Phani Datta Velicheti , John F. Wu , Andreea Petric

Radio-interferometry (RI) observes the sky at unprecedented angular resolutions, enabling the study of several far-away galactic objects such as galaxies and black holes. In RI, an array of antennas probes cosmic signals coming from the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-09 Olivier Leblanc , Yves Wiaux , Laurent Jacques

RFI mitigation in Radioastronomy can be achieved adopting cryogenic filters in appropriate typologies. A study has been conducted in L, C and X band with the evaluation of the filter architecture in copper, with theoretical estimation,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Tuccari , A. Caddemi , S. Barbarino , G. Nicotra , F. Consoli , F. Schilliro , F. Catalfamo

CMB-S4 will map the cosmic microwave background to unprecedented precision, while simultaneously surveying the millimeter-wave time-domain sky, in order to advance our understanding of cosmology and the universe. CMB-S4 will observe from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-04 Darcy R. Barron , Amy N. Bender , Ian E. Birdwell , John E. Carlstrom , Jacques Delabrouille , Sam Guns , John Kovac , Charles R. Lawrence , Scott Paine , Nathan Whitehorn

In this paper we describe the spherical harmonic transit telescope, a novel formalism for the analysis of transit radio telescopes. This all-sky approach bypasses the curved sky complications of traditional interferometry and so is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-14 J. Richard Shaw , Kris Sigurdson , Ue-Li Pen , Albert Stebbins , Michael Sitwell