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Radio-frequency interference detection and flagging is one of the most difficult and urgent problems in 21 cm Epoch of Reionization research. In this work, we present $\chi^2$ from redundant calibration as a novel method for RFI detection…

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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…

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Radio frequency interference (RFI) and malicious jammers are a significant problem in our wireless world. Detecting RFI or jamming is typically performed with model-based statistical detection or AI-empowered algorithms that use an input…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Christos Ntemkas , Antonios Argyriou

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…

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The model of the reflector antenna system with focal plane array, low-noise amplifier and beamformer is developed in the work. The beamformer strategy is suggested to reduce the receiving sensitivity ripple inside field of view of the…

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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.…

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One of the challenges in spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is modeling and mitigating radio frequency interference (RFI) artifacts in SAR imagery. Linear frequency modulated (LFM) signals have been commonly used for characterizing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-24 Dehui Yang , Feng Xi , Qihao Cao , Huizhang Yang

The future large adaptive telescopes will trigger new constraints for the calibration of Adaptive Optics (AO) systems equipped with pre-focal Deformable Mirrors (DM). The image of the DM actuators grid as seen by the Wave-Front Sensor (WFS)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 C. T. Heritier , T. Fusco , S. Oberti , B. Neichel , S. Esposito , P. -Y. Madec

Radio interferometry calibration and Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) removal are usually done separately. Here we show that jointly modelling the antenna gains and RFI has significant benefits when the RFI follows precise trajectories,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-19 Chris Finlay , Bruce A. Bassett , Martin Kunz , Nadeem Oozeer

Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) is unwanted noise that swamps the desired astronomical signal. Radio astronomers have always had to deal with RFI detection and excision around telescope sites, but little has been done to understand the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-17 Isaac Sihlangu , Nadeem Oozeer , Bruce Bassett

Real-time searches for faint radio pulses from unknown radio transients are computationally challenging. Detections become further complicated due to continuously increasing technical capabilities of transient surveys: telescope…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-13 Klim Mikhailov , Alessio Sclocco

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…

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In a search for short timescale astrophysical transients in time-domain data, radio-frequency interference (RFI) causes both large quantities of false positive candidates and a significant reduction in sensitivity if not correctly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-07 V. Morello , K. M. Rajwade , B. W. Stappers

Detection and mitigation of radio frequency interference (RFI) is the first and also the key step for data processing in radio observations, especially for ongoing low frequency radio experiments towards the detection of the cosmic dawn and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-02 Yan Huang , Xiang-Ping Wu , Qian Zheng , Jun-Hua Gu , Haiguang Xu

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

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

Repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) present excellent opportunities to identify FRB progenitors and host environments, as well as decipher the underlying emission mechanism. Detailed studies of repeating FRBs might also hold clues to the…

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

Studying the universe through radio telescope observation is crucial. However, radio telescopes capture not only signals from the universe but also various interfering signals, known as Radio Frequency Interference (RFI). The presence of…

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