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One of the main challenges for future 21 cm observations is to remove foregrounds which are several orders of magnitude more intense than the HI signal. We propose a new technique for removing foregrounds of the redshifted 21 cm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Jungyeon Cho , A. Lazarian , P. Timbie

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

We study the impact of the 1/f noise on the PLANCK Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) osbervations (Mandolesi et al 1998) and describe a simple method for removing striping effects from the maps for a number of different scanning stategies. A…

Searching for fleeting radio transients like fast radio bursts (FRBs) with wide-field radio telescopes has become a common challenge in data-intensive science. Conventional algorithms normally cost enormous time to seek candidates by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-23 Yao Chen , Rui Luo , Chen Wang , Yong-Kun Zhang , Shiqian Zhao , Chengbing Lyu , ZePeng Zheng , Hai Lei , DeJiang Zhou , Chenhui Niu , JinLin Han , George Hobbs , Di Li , Chengwei Liang , Siyi Tan , Ting Tian

Radio interferometers suffer from the problem of missing information in their data, due to the gaps between the antennas. This results in artifacts, such as bright rings around sources, in the images obtained. Multiple deconvolution…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 Michelle Lochner , Bruce A. Bassett , Martin Kunz , Iniyan Natarajan , Nadeem Oozeer , Oleg Smirnov , Jon Zwart

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

The 21 cm radiation of neutral hydrogen provides crucial information for studying the early universe and its evolution. To advance this research, countries have made significant investments in constructing large low-frequency radio…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-04 Ming-wei Qin , Rui Tang , Ying-hui Zhou , Chang-jun Lan , Wen-hao Fu , Huan Wang , Bao-lin Hou , Zamri , Jin-song Ping , Wen-jun Yang , Liang Dong

Narrowband radio search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) in the 21st century suffers severely from radio frequency interference (RFI), resulting in a high number of false positives, and it could be the major reason why we have not…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-20 Bo-Lun Huang , Zhen-Zhao Tao , Tong-Jie Zhang

After reionization, emission in the 21 cm hyperfine transition provides a direct probe of neutral hydrogen distributed in galaxies. Different from galaxy redshift surveys, observation of baryon acoustic oscillations in the cumulative 21 cm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-14 Xiao-Chun Mao

Working in a way that passively receives the electromagnetic radiation of celestial body, the radio telescope is easily disturbed by external radio frequency interference (RFI) as well as the electromagnetic interference (EMI) generated by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 Qing-Lin Xu , Yang Qiu , Jin Tian , Qi Liu

The visibilities measured by radio astronomical interferometers include non-astronomical correlated signals that arise from the local environment of the array. These correlated signals are especially important in compact arrays such as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-08 Juhun Kwak , John Podczerwinski , Peter Timbie , Réza Ansari , John Marriner , Albert Stebbins , Fengquan Wu , Haotian Cao , Xuelei Chen , Kai He , Jixia Li , Shijie Sun , Jiacong Zhu

This paper proposes the transmission of beacon signals to alert potential interferers of an ongoing or impending passive sensing measurement. We focus on the interference from Low-Earth Orbiting (LEO) satellites to a radio-telescope. We…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-21 Cuneyd Ozturk , Randall A. Berry , Dongning Guo , Michael L. Honig , Frank D. Lind

The discovery of interstellar communication signals is complicated by the presence of radio interference. Consequently, interstellar communication signals are hypothesized to have properties that favor discovery in high levels of local…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-21 William J. Crilly

Radio astronomy observations at frequencies below 10~MHz could provide valuable science, such as measuring the cosmic dark age signal in the redshifted 21~cm hydrogen absorption line, detecting exoplanetary auroral emissions which lead to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-26 Ekaterina Kononov , Mary Knapp

CMB-S4 will map the cosmic microwave background to unprecedented precision, while simultaneously surveying the millimeter-wave time-domain sky, in order to advance our understanding of cosmology and the universe. CMB-S4 will observe from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-04 Darcy R. Barron , Amy N. Bender , Ian E. Birdwell , John E. Carlstrom , Jacques Delabrouille , Sam Guns , John Kovac , Charles R. Lawrence , Scott Paine , Nathan Whitehorn

An algorithm is described for removing extended interferences, for instance from a radar, which are shorter than the time of passage of a radio source across the beam of the radio telescope. The algorithm is developed on the basis of robust…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. V. Verkhodanov , D. A. Pavlov

In Internet of Things (IoT), radio frequency fingerprints (RFF) technology has been widely used for passive security authentication to identify the special emitter. However, few works took advantage of independent oscillator distortions at…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-12 Xiaofang Chen , Wenbo Xu , Yue Wang

Fluorescence detection, either involving propagating or near-field emission, is widely being used in spectroscopy, sensing and microscopy. Total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF) confines fluorescence excitation by an evanescent…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-06-24 Martin Oheim , Adi Salomon , Maia Brunstein

We present an in-situ antenna characterization method and results for a "low-frequency" radio astronomy engineering prototype array, characterized over the 75-300 MHz frequency range. The presence of multiple cosmic radio sources,…

The \hi 21 cm transition line is expected to be an important probe into the cosmic dark ages and epoch of reionization. Foreground source removal is one of the principal challenges for the detection of this signal. This paper investigates…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 A. Datta , J. D. Bowman , C. L. Carilli