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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

Radio spectroscopy provides a unique inspection perspective for solar and space weather research, which can reveal the plasma and energetic electron information in the solar corona and inner heliosphere. However, Radio-Frequency…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-22 Peijin Zhang , André R. Offringa , Pietro Zucca , Kamen Kozarev , Mattia Mancini

In Earth remote sensing, spatial-frequency domain visibility samples are inversely transformed into spatial-domain brightness temperature (BT) images through the signal processing pipeline of synthetic aperture interferometric radiometers…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-03 Yuankai Luo , Han Zhou , Jinlong Hao , Dong Zhu , Fei Hu

Passive space-borne radiometers operating in the 1400-1427 MHz protected frequency band face radio frequency interference (RFI) from terrestrial sources. With the growth of wireless devices and the appearance of new technologies, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Ali Owfi , Fatemeh Afghah

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) integrates analog communication with task-oriented computation, serving as a key enabling technique for communication-efficient federated learning (FL) over wireless networks. However, owing to its analog…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Wei Shi , Jiacheng Yao , Wei Xu , Jindan Xu , Xiaohu You , Yonina C. Eldar , Chunming Zhao

Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) is threatening modern radio astronomy. A classic approach to mitigate its impact on astronomical data involves discarding the corrupted time and frequency data samples through a process called flagging and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-28 Gregory Hellbourg , Ian Morrison

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

Ground-based 21-cm experiments targeting the global signal from the periods of Cosmic Dawn (CD) and Epoch of Reionization (EoR) are susceptible to adverse effects presented by i) the ionosphere ii) antenna chromaticity induced by objects in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-08 Sonia Ghosh , Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao , Saurabh Singh

We investigate the effectiveness of the statistical radio frequency interference (RFI) mitigation technique spectral kurtosis (SK) in the face of simulated realistic RFI signals. SK estimates the kurtosis of a collection of M power values…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Evan T. Smith , Ryan Lynch , D. J. Pisano

The rapid development of new generation radio interferometers such as the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) has opened up unprecedented opportunities for astronomical research. However, anthropogenic Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-02 Haomin Sun , Hui Deng , Feng Wang , Ying Mei , Tingting Xu , Oleg Smirnov , Linhua Deng , Shoulin Wei

Electromagnetic radiation from human activities, known as man-made Radio Frequency Interference (RFI), adversely affects radio astronomy observations. In the vicinity of the Upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT) array, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Kaushal D. Buch , Ruta Kale , Kishor D. Naik , Rahul Aragade , Mekhala Muley , Sanjay Kudale , Ajith Kumar B

We investigate the effect of radio-frequency interference (RFI) excision in estimating the cosmological \hi\ 21 cm power spectrum. Flagging of RFI-contaminated channels results in a non-uniform sampling of the instrumental bandpass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-27 Arnab Chakraborty , Abhirup Datta , Aishrila Mazumder

Neural network (NN) based methods are applied to the detection of radio frequency interference (RFI) in post-correlation,post-calibration time/frequency data. While calibration doesaffect RFI for the sake of this work a reduced dataset…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-31 Kyle Harrison , Amit Kumar Mishra

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) is the most sensitive ground-based, single-dish radio telescope on Earth. However, the original HI spectra produced by FAST are affected by standing waves. To maximize the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 De-Jian Liu , Ye Xu , Ying-Jie Li , Ze-Hao Lin , Shuai-Bo Bian , Chao-Jie Hao

Mitigation of radio frequency interference (RFI) is essential to deliver science-ready radio interferometric data to astronomers. In this paper, using dual polarized radio interferometers, we propose to use the polarization information of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-24 Sarod Yatawatta

The Scripted E-merlin Rfi-mitigation PipelinE for iNTerferometry (SERPent) is an automated reduction and RFI-mitigation procedure utilising the SumThreshold methodology (Offringa et al. 2010b), originally developed for the LOFAR pipeline.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-03 Luke Peck , Danielle Fenech

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

A selection of statistically stable (robust) algorithms for data variance calculating has been made. Their properties have been analyzed via computer simulation. These algorithms would be useful if adopted in radio astronomy observations in…

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

Radio-astronomical observations are increasingly contaminated by interference, and suppression techniques become essential. A powerful candidate for interference mitigation is adaptive spatial filtering. We study the effect of spatial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Amir Leshem , Alle-Jan van der Veen

The radio spectrum is a finite and increasingly precious resource for astronomical research, as well as for other spectrum users. Keeping the frequency bands used for radio astronomy as free as possible of unwanted Radio Frequency…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-15 W. van Driel