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Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) corrupts astronomical measurements, thus affecting the performance of radio telescopes. To address this problem, supervised segmentation models have been proposed as candidate solutions to RFI detection.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Michael Mesarcik , Albert-Jan Boonstra , Elena Ranguelova , Rob V. van Nieuwpoort

Signal artefacts due to Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) are a common nuisance in radio astronomy. Conventionally, the RFI-affected data are tagged by an expert data analyst in order to warrant data quality. In view of the increasing data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-30 Paul Ray Burd , Karl Mannheim , Tobias März , Jonas Ringholz , Alexander Kappes , Matthias Kadler

Impulsive radio-frequency signals from astronomical sources are dispersed by the frequency dependent index of refraction of the interstellar media and so appear as chirped signals when they reach earth. Searches for dispersed impulses have…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 John Hogden , Scott Vander Wiel , Geoffrey C. Bower , Sarah Michalak , Andrew Siemion , Daniel Werthimer

In this paper, we propose a novel method for frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar mutual interference mitigation (IM) based on the discrete fractional Fourier transform (DFrFT). Interference chirps are detected and mitigated by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-30 Christian Oswald , Franz Pernkopf

We present a multimoment technique for signal classification and apply it to the detection of fast radio transients in incoherently dedispersed data. Specifically, we define a spectral modulation index in terms of the fractional variation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Laura Spitler , Jim Cordes , Shami Chatterjee , Julia Stone

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

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

In this paper, the interference mitigation for Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) radar system with a dechirping receiver is investigated. After dechirping operation, the scattered signals from targets result in beat signals, i.e.,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-09 Jianping Wang , Min Ding , Alexander Yarovoy

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-04 Antonio Cicone , Enza Pellegrino

Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) poses a significant challenge in radio astronomy, arising from terrestrial and celestial sources, disrupting observations conducted by radio telescopes. Addressing RFI involves intricate heuristic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Nicholas J. Pritchard , Andreas Wicenec , Mohammed Bennamoun , Richard Dodson

Studying the universe through radio telescope observation is crucial. However, radio telescopes capture not only signals from the universe but also various interfering signals, known as Radio Frequency Interference (RFI). The presence of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-02 Fei Gu , Longfei Hao , Bo Liang , Song Feng , Shoulin Wei , Wei Dai , Yonghua Xu , Zhixuan Li , Yihang Dao

The growing need for electromagnetic spectrum to support the next generation (xG) communication networks increasingly generate unwanted radio frequency interference (RFI) in protected bands for radio astronomy. RFI is commonly mitigated at…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Shuvam Chakraborty , Gregory Hellbourg , Maqsood Careem , Dola Saha , Aveek Dutta

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

Electromagnetic radiation from human activities, known as man-made Radio Frequency Interference (RFI), adversely affects radio astronomy observations. In the vicinity of the Upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT) array, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Kaushal D. Buch , Ruta Kale , Kishor D. Naik , Rahul Aragade , Mekhala Muley , Sanjay Kudale , Ajith Kumar B

Radio frequency fingerprint identification (RFFI) is an emerging method for authenticating Internet of Things (IoT) devices. RFFI exploits the intrinsic and unique hardware imperfections for classifying IoT devices. Deep learning-based RFFI…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Jie Ma , Junqing Zhang , Guanxiong Shen , Linning Peng , Alan Marshall

In this paper, we extend our method [1] for FMCW radar mutual interference mitigation (IM) based on the discrete fractional Fourier transform (DFrFT). Firstly, we propose a radar signal processing chain including our DFrFT-based IM for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-01 Christian Oswald , Josef Kulmer , Franz Pernkopf

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

Radio frequency fingerprint identification (RFFI) is an emerging device authentication technique, which exploits the hardware characteristics of the RF front-end as device identifiers. RFFI is implemented in the wireless receiver and acts…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-08 Guanxiong Shen , Junqing Zhang , Alan Marshall , Roger Woods , Joseph Cavallaro , Liquan Chen

Radio frequency fingerprint identification (RFFI) is a key technique for wireless network security, leveraging intrinsic hardware imperfections to enable transmitter identification. Although deep neural networks are effective at extracting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yuhao Pan , Xiucheng Wang , Fushuo Huo , Nan Cheng , Wenchao Xu