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In this paper, we present a framework for assessing the effect of non-stationary Gaussian noise and radio frequency interference (RFI) on the signal to noise ratio, the number of false positives detected per true positive and the…

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In this work, we present a new technique for the decomposition of multivariate data, which we call Multivariate Fast Iterative Filtering (MvFIF) algorithm. We study its properties, proving rigorously that it converges in finite time when…

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We present the implementation of a spectral kurtosis based Radio Frequency Interference detection system on the CHIME instrument and its reduced-scale pathfinder. Our implementation extends single-receiver formulations to the case of a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-31 Jacob Taylor , Nolan Denman , Kevin Bandura , Philippe Berger , Kiyoshi Masui , Andre Renard , Ian Tretyakov , Keith Vanderlinde

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Kaushal D. Buch , Kishor Naik , Swapnil Nalawade , Shruti Bhatporia , Yashwant Gupta , B Ajithkumar

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 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

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 this paper, we propose a novel method for distinguishing extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) signals from radio frequency interference (RFI) by leveraging polarization features. We exploit the sinusoidal variation of the linearly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-08 Jian-Kang Li , Yu Chen , Zhen-Zhao Tao , Xiao-Hang Luan , Tong-Jie Zhang , Bo-Lun Huang , Xiao-Hui Sun , Vishal Gajjar

Measurement of interferometric parameters values is affected by phase disturbance due especially to atmospheric turbulences. Algorithms of fringe sensing, aimed at fringe parameters identification, are based on interferometric models that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-27 Bonino Donata

Radio frequency interference (RFI) mitigation remains a major challenge in the search for radio technosignatures. Typical mitigation strategies include a direction-of-origin (DoO) filter, where a signal is classified as RFI if it is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-02 Pavlo Pinchuk , Jean-Luc Margot

We characterize the low frequency radio-frequency interference (RFI) environment at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO), the location selected for the low-frequency component of the Square Kilometre Array. Data were collected…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-07 Marcin Sokolowski , Randall B. Wayth , Morgan Lewis

Flagging of Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) is an increasingly important challenge in radio astronomy. We present R-Net, a deep convolutional ResNet architecture that significantly outperforms existing algorithms -- including the default…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Alireza Vafaei Sadr , Bruce A. Bassett , Nadeem Oozeer , Yabebal Fantaye , Chris Finlay

The LFI (Low Frequency Instrument) on board the ESA Planck satellite is constituted by an array of radiometric detectors actively cooled at 20 K in the 30-70 GHz frequency range in the focal plane of the Planck telescope. In this paper we…

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-28 Theodora Kunicki , Jonathan C. Pober

Linear optics is a promising route to building quantum technologies that operate at room temperature and can be manufactured scalably on integrated photonic platforms. However, scaling up linear optics requires high-performance operation…

Radio over Fiber (RoF) Systems exploiting a direct modulation of the laser source are presently utilized within important Radioastronomic scenarios. Due to the particular operating conditions of some of these realizations, the phenomena…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 Jacopo Nanni , Andrea Giovannini , Muhammad Usman Hadi , Enrico Lenzi , Simone Rusticelli , Randall Wayth , Federico Perini , Jader Monari , Giovanni Tartarini

Interferometric methods, renowned for their reliability and precision, play a vital role in phase imaging. Interferometry typically requires high coherence and stability between the measured and the reference beam. The presence of rapid…

Proposed 21 cm cosmology observatories for studying the epoch of reionization (z ~6-15) and dark energy (z ~0-6) envision compact arrays with tens of thousands of antenna elements. Fully correlating this many elements is computationally…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Miguel F. Morales

The calibration of modern radio interferometers is a significant challenge, specifically at low frequencies. In this perspective, we propose a novel iterative calibration algorithm, which employs the popular sparse representation framework,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-06 Martin Brossard , Mohamed Nabil El Korso , Marius Pesavento , Rémy Boyer , Pascal Larzabal

The new technique, multi-frequency imaging (MFI) is developed. In VLBI, Multi-Frequency Imaging (MFI) consists of multi-frequency synthesis (MFS) and multi-frequency analysis (MFA) of the VLBI data obtained from observations on various…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Likhachev