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Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are a newly discovered class of radio transients that emerge from cosmological sources and last for $\sim$ a few milliseconds. However, their origin remains a highly debated topic in astronomy. Among the plethora of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-31 Mohit Bhardwaj , Antonella Palmese , Ignacio Magaña Hernandez , Virginia D'Emilio , Soichiro Morisaki

The radio interferometric positioning system (RIPS) is an accurate node localization method featuring a novel phase-based ranging process. Multipath is the limiting error source for RIPS in ground-deployed scenarios or indoor applications.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Cheng Zhang , Wangdong Qi , Li Wei , Jiang Chang , Yuexin Zhao

Radio frequency interference (RFI) is the principal factor limiting the sensitivities of radio telescopes, particularly at frequencies below 1 GHz. I present a conceptually new approach to mitigation of RFI in interferometric data. This has…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Ramana Athreya

In this paper I outline a new strategy for the routine detection and imaging of faint (sub-mJy and microJy) radio sources with VLBI and SVLBI. The strategy relies on a combination of in-beam phase-referencing, wide-field VLBI imaging and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. A. Garrett

Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) presents a significant challenge for carrying out precision measurements in radio astronomy. In particular, RFI can be a showstopper when looking for faint cosmological signals such as the red-shifted…

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

We present an algorithm, dubbed Multi-Branch Matching Pursuit (MBMP), to solve the sparse recovery problem over redundant dictionaries. MBMP combines three different paradigms: being a greedy method, it performs iterative signal support…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-03 Marco Rossi , Alexander M. Haimovich , Yonina C. Eldar

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are energetic, short, bright transients that occur frequently over the entire radio sky. The observational challenges following from their fleeting, generally one-off nature have prevented identification of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-14 D. W. Gardenier , J. van Leeuwen

Many hypotheses have been raised to explain the famous Fermi paradox. One of them is that self-replicating probes could have explored the whole Galaxy, including our Solar System, and that they are still to be detected. In this scenario, it…

Popular Physics · Physics 2013-10-01 M. Gillon

Discovery of pulsars is one of the main goals for large radio telescopes. The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), that incorporates an L-band 19-beam receiver with a system temperature of about 20~K, is the most…

The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has been conducted for over sixty years, yet no technosignatures have been identified. Previous studies have focused on stars in our galaxy, with few searches in the extragalactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-12 Yuri Uno , Tetsuya Hashimoto , Tomotsugu Goto , Simon C. -C. Ho , Tzu-Yin Hsu , Ross Burns

Scientists at the Berkeley SETI Research Center are Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) by a new signal detection method that converts radio signals into spectrograms through Fourier transforms and classifies signals…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Zhewei Chen , Sami Ahmed Haider

We have constructed and operated the Survey for Transient Astronomical Radio Emission (STARE) to detect transient astronomical radio emission at 611 MHz originating from the sky over the northeastern United States. The system is sensitive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. A. Katz , J. N. Hewitt , B. E. Corey , C. B. Moore

We applied the Koch snowflake fractal antenna in planning calibration of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), hypothesizing second-order fractal primary reflectors can optimize the orientated sensitivity of the…

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The rapid advancement of the next generation of communications and internet of things (IoT) technologies has made the provision of location-based services for diverse devices an increasingly pressing necessity. Localizing devices…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-09 Yixuan Guo , Qingwei Jiang , Mengyuan Xu , Wen Fang , Qingwen Liu , Gang Yan , Qunhui Yang , Hai Lu

Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) is a growing concern in the radio astronomy community. Single-dish telescopes are particularly susceptible to RFI. Several methods have been developed to cope with RF-polluted environments, based on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 R. Finger , F. Curotto , R. Fuentes , R. Duan , L. Bronfman , D. Li

Multi-frequency massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) communication is a promising strategy for both 5G and future 6G systems, ensuring reliable transmission while enhancing frequency resource utilization. Statistical channel state…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Jinke Tang , Li You , Xinrui Gong , Chenjie Xie , Xiqi Gao , Xiang-Gen Xia , Xueyuan Shi

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

We present an estimate of the performance that will be achieved during on orbit operations of the JWST Mid Infrared Instrument, MIRI. The efficiency of the main imager and spectrometer systems in detecting photons from an astronomical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Alistair Glasse , G. H. Rieke , E. Bauwens , Macarena Garcıa-Marın , M. E. Ressler , Steffen Rost , T. V. Tikkanen , B. Vandenbussche , G. S. Wright

The millisecond-duration radio flashes known as Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) represent an enigmatic astrophysical phenomenon. Recently, the sub-arcsecond localization (~ 100mas precision) of FRB121102 using the VLA has led to its unambiguous…