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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

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

Radio astronomy observational facilities are under constant upgradation and development to achieve better capabilities including increasing the time and frequency resolutions of the recorded data, and increasing the receiving and recording…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-07 Tao An , Xiao Chen , P. Mohan , Bao-Qiang Lao

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

Radio frequency interference (RFI) have been an enduring concern in radio astronomy, particularly for the observations of pulsars which require high timing precision and data sensitivity. In most works of the literature, RFI mitigation has…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-22 Xiao Zhang , Ismaël Cognard , Nicolas Dobigeon

Connected radio interferometers are sometimes used in the tied-array mode: signals from antenna elements are coherently added and the sum signal applied to a VLBI backend or pulsar processing machine. Usually there is no computer-controlled…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-09 P. A. Fridman

The growing level of radio frequency interference (RFI) is a recognized problem for research in radio astronomy. This paper describes an intuitive but powerful RFI cancellation technique that is suitable for radio spectroscopy where…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. H. Briggs , J. F. Bell , M. J. Kesteven

This paper presents an overview of methods for mitigating radio frequency interference (RFI) in radio science data. The primary purpose of mitigation is to assist observatories to take useful data outside frequency bands allocated to the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-01 Willem A. Baan

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

Radio astronomy is facing critical challenges due to an ever-increasing human-made signal density filling up the radio spectrum. With the rise of satellites, mobile networks, and other wireless technologies, radio telescopes are struggling…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-24 Kaushal D. Buch , Thushara Gunaratne , Gregory Hellbourg , Cedric Viou , Benjamin Winkel

In radio astronomy, radio frequency interference (RFI) becomes more and more serious for radio observational facilities. The RFI always influences the search and study of the interesting astronomical objects. Mitigating the RFI becomes an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-03 Chuan-Peng Zhang , Jin-Long Xu , Jie Wang , Yingjie Jing , Ziming Liu , Ming Zhu , Peng Jiang

Radio Frequency Interference (RFI), the presence of artificial and/or terrestrial signals in astronomical data, poses a great challenge to the search for pulsars and radio transients, such as Rotating Radio Transients (RRATs) and Fast Radio…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-15 R. S. Hombal , L. Levin , B. W. Stappers , M. Droog , A. Karastergiou , D. Lumbaa , M. B. Mickaliger , A. Naidu , K. M. Rajwade , J. Sepulveda , B. Shaw , S. Singh , T. Prabu

Radio frequency interference (RFI) is a significant problem for current and future radio telescopes. We describe here a method for post-correlation cancellation of RFI for the special case of an extended source observed with an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Geoffrey C. Bower

Radio frequency interference (RFI) is a significant challenge faced by today's radio astronomers. While most past efforts were devoted to cleaning the RFI from the data, we develop a novel method for categorizing and cataloguing RFI for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-07 Mao Yuan , Weiwei Zhu , Haiyan Zhang , Shijie Huang , Mengyao Xue , Di Li , Youling Yue , Pei Wang , 1 Jiarui Niu , Yuxuan Hu , Chunjiang Li , Chenchen Miao , Yu Wang , Lingqi Meng , Bo Peng

Radio-frequency interference (RFI) is a major systematic limitation in radio astronomy, particularly for science cases requiring high sensitivity, such as 21 cm cosmology. Traditionally, RFI is dealt with by identifying its signature in the…

Active Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) mitigation becomes a necessity for radio astronomy. The solution commonly applied by the community consists in monitoring the statistics of the received signal, and flag out the detected corrupted…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-12 Gregory Hellbourg

Because of the denser active use of the spectrum, and because of radio telescopes higher sensitivity, radio frequency interference (RFI) mitigation has become a sensitive topic for current and future radio telescope designs. Even if quite…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-03 Dumez-Viou Cédric , Weber Rodolphe , Ravier Philippe

Several post-detection approaches to the mitigation of radio-frequency interference (RFI) are compared by applying them to the strong RFI from the Iridium satellites. These provide estimates for the desired signal in the presence of RFI, by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-02 Avinash A. Deshpande , B. M. Lewis

Radio-frequency interference (RFI) presents a significant obstacle to current radio interferometry experiments aimed at the Epoch of Reionization. RFI contamination is often several orders of magnitude brighter than the astrophysical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-05 Jade M. Ducharme , Jonathan C. Pober

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
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