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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

Impulsive radio-frequency signals from astronomical sources are dispersed by the frequency dependent index of refraction of the interstellar media and so appear as chirped signals when they reach earth. Searches for dispersed impulses have…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 John Hogden , Scott Vander Wiel , Geoffrey C. Bower , Sarah Michalak , Andrew Siemion , Daniel Werthimer

We present a project to implement a national common strategy for the mitigation of the steadily deteriorating Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) situation at the Italian radio telescopes. The project involves the Medicina, Noto, and…

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

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

We present a filtering technique that can be applied to individual baselines of wide-bandwidth, wide-field interferometric data to geometrically select regions on the celestial sphere that contain primary calibration sources. The technique…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Aaron R. Parsons , Donald C. Backer

The recent demonstration of a real-time direct imaging radio interferometry correlator represents a new capability in radio astronomy. However wide field imaging with this method is challenging since wide-field effects and array…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 James Kent , Adam P. Beardsley , Landman Bester , Steve F. Gull , Bojan Nikolic , Jayce Dowell , Nithyanandan Thyagarajan , Greg B. Taylor , Judd Bowman

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

The standing waves existed in radio telescope data are primarily due to reflections among the instruments, which significantly impact the spectrum quality of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). Eliminating…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-09 Chen Xu , Jie Wang , Yingjie Jing , Fujia Li , Hengqian Gan , Ziming Liu , Tiantian Liang , Qingze Chen , Zerui Liu , Zhipeng Hou , Hao Hu , Huijie Hu , Shijie Huang , Peng Jiang , Chuan-Peng Zhang , Yan Zhu

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

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

The precise characterization and mitigation of systematic effects is one of the biggest roadblocks impeding the detection of the fluctuations of cosmological 21cm signals. Missing data in radio cosmological experiments, often due to radio…

We quantify the effect of radio frequency interference (RFI) on measurements of the 21-cm power spectrum during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). Specifically, we investigate how the frequency structure of RFI source emission generates…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-09 Michael J. Wilensky , Nichole Barry , Miguel F. Morales , Bryna J. Hazelton , Ruby Byrne

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

Contamination by Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) is a ubiquitous challenge for radio astronomy. In particular, transient RFI is difficult to detect and avoid, especially in large data sets with many time bins. In this work, we present a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-04 Dominic Anstey , Samuel A. K. Leeney

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

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

Extensive radio frequency interference (RFI) monitoring is essential in the site selection process before constructing radio astronomy observatories, followed by mitigation strategies to minimize its adverse effects. Malaysia has an…

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

This paper presents a power-efficient mask-constrained ultra-wideband (UWB) waveform design with radio channel effects taken into consideration. Based on a finite impulse response (FIR) filter, we develop a convex optimization model with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-05-12 Yipeng Liu , Qun Wan , Xiaoli Chu