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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

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

Radio interferometric observations are less susceptible to radio frequency interference (RFI) than single dish observations. This is primarily due to : (1)fringe-frequency averaging at the correlator output and (2) bandwidth decorrelation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Anish Roshi , R. A. Perley

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

Radio interferometers are phased arrays producing high-resolution images from the covariance matrix of measurements. Calibration of such instruments is necessary and is a critical task. This is how the estimation of instrumental errors is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-26 Yassine Mhiri , Mohammed Nabil El Korso , Arnaud Breloy , Pascal Larzabal

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

The rapid proliferation of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations has introduced a new class of radio frequency interference (RFI) that poses a fundamental challenge to modern radio astronomy. In particular, unintended…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-20 Yujin Kim

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

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

Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) of impulsive nature is created by sources like sparking on high-power transmission lines due to gap or corona discharge and automobile sparking, and it affects the entire observing frequency bands of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-10 Kaushal D. Buch , Ruta Kale , Mekhala Muley , Sanjay Kudale , Ajithkumar B.

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

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

Transient radio frequency interference (RFI) is detrimental to radio astronomy. It is particularly difficult to identify the sources of transient RFI, which is broadband and intermittent. Such RFI is often generated by devices like…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-08 Daniel Czech , Amit Mishra , Michael Inggs

We investigate characteristics of radio frequency interference (RFI) signals that can affect the excision potential of some interference mitigation algorithms. The techniques considered are those that modify signals from auxiliary reference…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-01 D. A. Mitchell , J. G. Robertson

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…

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

With the ongoing growth in radio communications, there is an increased contamination of radio astronomical source data, which hinders the study of celestial radio sources. In many cases, fast mitigation of strong radio frequency…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-08 Zaid Bin Tariq , Teviet Creighton , Louis P. Dartez , Naofal Al-Dhahir , Murat Torlak

We describe and compare several post-correlation radio frequency interference classification methods. As data sizes of observations grow with new and improved telescopes, the need for completely automated, robust methods for radio frequency…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-14 A. R. Offringa , A. G. de Bruyn , M. Biehl , S. Zaroubi , G. Bernardi , V. N. Pandey

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

Extragalactic fast radio bursts (FRBs) are a new class of astrophysical transients with unknown origins that have become a main focus of radio observatories worldwide. FRBs are highly energetic ($\sim 10^{36}$-$10^{42}$ ergs) flashes that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-18 Masoud Rafiei-Ravandi , Kendrick M. Smith