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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…

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We describe the design and implementation of an extremely scalable real-time RFI mitigation method, based on the offline AOFlagger. All algorithms scale linearly in the number of samples. We describe how we implemented the flagger in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-31 Rob V. van Nieuwpoort

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…

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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…

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In the fourth generation Audio Video coding Standard (AVS4), the Inter Prediction Filter (INTERPF) reduces discontinuities between prediction and adjacent reconstructed pixels in inter prediction. The paper proposes a low complexity…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Yanchen Zhao , Wenhong Duan , Chuanmin Jia , Shanshe Wang , Siwei Ma

In neutral hydrogen (HI) galaxy survey, a significant challenge is to identify and extract the HI galaxy signal from observational data contaminated by radio frequency interference (RFI). For a drift-scan survey, or more generally a survey…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-27 Ruxi Liang , Furen Deng , Zepei Yang , Chunming Li , Feiyu Zhao , Botao Yang , Shuanghao Shu , Wenxiu Yang , Shifan Zuo , Yichao Li , Yougang Wang , Xuelei Chen

In physical-layer security schemes, radio frequency fingerprint (RFF) identification of WiFi devices is susceptible to receiver differences, which can significantly degrade classification performance when a model is trained on one receiver…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Xuan Yang , Dongming Li , Dong Wei , Meng Zhang

The prediction of the antenna radiation pattern can be extremely complex for antenna system composed of several reflector surfaces. Typically, at mm-wavelengths, telescopes are composed of mirrors and shields, and an accurate prediction of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Sandri , F. Villa , M. Bersanelli , R. C. Butler , N. Mandolesi , J. Tauber

This paper proposes a novel low probability of intercept (LPI) waveform design approach for orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM)-based integrated sensing and communication systems by introducing artificial phase and Doppler…

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The recently initiated Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA (ALFALFA) survey aims to map 7000 square degrees of the high galactic latitude sky visible from Arecibo, providing a HI line spectral database covering the redshift range between -1600 km/s…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Riccardo Giovanelli , Martha P. Haynes , Brian R. Kent

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

Spaceborne gravitational wave observatories, exemplified by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission, are designed to remove laser noise and clock noise from interferometric phase measurements in postprocessing. The planned…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-18 Kohei Yamamoto , Hannah Tomio , Charlotte Zehnder , Kenji Numata , Holly Leopardi

We introduce a new pipeline for analyzing and mitigating radio frequency interference (RFI), which we call Sky-Subtracted Incoherent Noise Spectra (SSINS). SSINS is designed to identify and remove faint RFI below the single baseline thermal…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-10 Michael J. Wilensky , Miguel F. Morales , Bryna J. Hazelton , Nichole Barry , Ruby Byrne , Sumit Roy

The LOw FRequency ARray - LOFAR is a new radio telescope that is moving the science of radio pulsars and transients into a new phase. Its design places emphasis on digital hardware and flexible software instead of mechanical solutions.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-03 Maciej Serylak , Aris Karastergiou , Chris Williams , Wes Armour , LOFAR Pulsar Working Group

Narrowband radio search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) in the 21st century suffers severely from radio frequency interference (RFI), resulting in a high number of false positives, and it could be the major reason why we have not…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-20 Bo-Lun Huang , Zhen-Zhao Tao , Tong-Jie Zhang

We have used the Fisher matrix formalism to quantify the prospects of detecting the z = 3.35 redshifted 21-cm HI power spectrum with the upcoming radio-imterferometric array OWFA. OWFA's frequency and baseline coverage spans comoving…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 Somnath Bharadwaj , Anjan Kumar Sarkar , Sk. Saiyad Ali

Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) is a promising alternative to orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) in high-mobility beyond 5G communications. In this paper, we consider the problem of radar sensing with OTFS joint…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-02 Musa Furkan Keskin , Henk Wymeersch , Alex Alvarado

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…

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