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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 frequency interference (RFI) mitigation and radar echo recovery are critically important for the proper functioning of ultra-wideband (UWB) radar systems using one-bit sampling techniques. We recently introduced a technique for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-22 Tianyi Zhang , Jiaying Ren , Jian Li , Lam H. Nguyen , Petre Stoica

We present the first survey of radio frequency interference (RFI) at the future site of the low frequency Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO), that both temporally and spatially resolves the RFI.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Steven Tingay , Marcin Sokolowski , Randall Wayth , Daniel Ung

We present a project to implement a national common strategy for the mitigation of the steadily deteriorating Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) situation at the Italian radio telescopes. The project involves the Medicina, Noto, and…

Fast Radio Burst (FRB) is an extremely energetic cosmic phenomenon of short duration. Discovered only recently and with its origin still unknown, FRBs have already started to play a significant role in studying the distribution and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-31 Xuerong Guo , Han Wang , Yifan Xiao , Huaxi Chen , Yinan Ke , ChenChen Miao , Pei Wang , Di Li , Chenwu Jin , Ling He , Yi Feng , Yongkun Zhang , Jiaying Xu , Guangyong Chen

Running Median Subtraction Filter (RMSF) is a robust statistical tool for removing slowly varying baselines in data streams containing transients (short-duration signals) of interest. In this work, we explore the RMSF performance and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-07 Arko P. Sen , Andrey Sarantsev , Geoffrey Blewitt , Andrei Derevianko

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

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

In the first TABASCAL paper we showed how to calibrate in the presence of Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) sources by simultaneously isolating the trajectories and signals of the RFI sources. Here we show that we can accurately remove RFI…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-01 Chris Finlay , Bruce A. Bassett , Martin Kunz , Nadeem Oozeer

A technique is described that is used to improve the detection of radio-frequency interference in astronomical radio observatories. It is applied on a two-dimensional interference mask after regular detection in the time-frequency domain…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-01 A. R. Offringa , J. J. van de Gronde , J. B. T. M. Roerdink

Extensive radio frequency interference (RFI) monitoring is essential in the site selection process before constructing radio astronomy observatories, followed by mitigation strategies to minimize its adverse effects. Malaysia has an…

Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) from anthropogenic radio sources poses significant challenges to current and future radio telescopes. Contemporary approaches to detecting RFI treat the task as a semantic segmentation problem on radio…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Nicholas J Pritchard , Andreas Wicenec , Mohammed Bennamoun , Richard Dodson

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

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

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

The precise characterization and mitigation of systematic effects is one of the biggest roadblocks impeding the detection of the fluctuations of cosmological 21cm signals. Missing data in radio cosmological experiments, often due to radio…

Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) is threatening modern radio astronomy. A classic approach to mitigate its impact on astronomical data involves discarding the corrupted time and frequency data samples through a process called flagging and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-28 Gregory Hellbourg , Ian Morrison

Radio-astronomical observations are increasingly contaminated by interference, and suppression techniques become essential. A powerful candidate for interference mitigation is adaptive spatial filtering. We study the effect of spatial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Amir Leshem , Alle-Jan van der Veen

Traditional phase-shifting interferometry technique cannot be used to measure time-varying phase distributions. But single shot techniques could resolve the problem. Many efforts have been made on the phase retrieval methods from a single…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-03-31 Lifa Hu , Wen Shena , Wenchao Ma , Dongting Hu , Xinyu Liu
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