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The Allen Telescope Array is a multi-user instrument and will perform simultaneous radio astronomy and radio SETI (search for extra-terrestrial intelligence) observations. It is a multi-beam instrument, with 16 independently steerable…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-17 G. R. Harp

Radio frequency interference (RFI) detection and excision are key steps in the data-processing pipeline of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). Because of its high sensitivity and large data rate, FAST requires…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-14 Zhicheng Yang , Ce Yu , Jian Xiao , Bo Zhang

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 interferometry calibration and Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) removal are usually done separately. Here we show that jointly modelling the antenna gains and RFI has significant benefits when the RFI follows precise trajectories,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-19 Chris Finlay , Bruce A. Bassett , Martin Kunz , Nadeem Oozeer

Radio frequency interference (RFI) mitigation is critical to the proper operation of ultra-wideband (UWB) radar systems since RFI can severely degrade the radar imaging capability and target detection performance. In this paper, we address…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-29 Tianyi Zhang , Jiaying Ren , Jian Li , Lam H. Nguyen , Petre Stoica

Radio astronomy is a specialised area of astronomy that examines the radio emissions from astronomical bodies within the electromagnetic spectrum's radio range. As radio telescopes have become increasingly sensitive due to technological…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-21 Isaac Sihlangu , Nadeem Oozeer

RFI mitigation in Radioastronomy can be achieved adopting cryogenic filters in appropriate typologies. A study has been conducted in L, C and X band with the evaluation of the filter architecture in copper, with theoretical estimation,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Tuccari , A. Caddemi , S. Barbarino , G. Nicotra , F. Consoli , F. Schilliro , F. Catalfamo

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

Passive space-borne radiometers operating in the 1400-1427 MHz protected frequency band face radio frequency interference (RFI) from terrestrial sources. With the growth of wireless devices and the appearance of new technologies, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Ali Owfi , Fatemeh Afghah

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

We present the results of a survey for intervening HI 21-cm absorbers at intermediate and low redshift (0<z<1.2). For our total sample of 24 systems, we obtained high quality data for 17 systems, the other seven being severely affected by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-09 M. A. Zwaan , J. Liske , C. Péroux , M. T. Murphy , N. Bouché , S. J. Curran , A. D. Biggs

Modern radio astronomy instruments generate vast amounts of data, and the increasingly challenging radio frequency interference (RFI) environment necessitates ever-more sophisticated RFI rejection algorithms. The "needle in a haystack"…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-22 Peter Xiangyuan Ma , Steve Croft , Chris Lintott , Andrew P. V. Siemion

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

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

Radio frequency interference (RFI) and malicious jammers are a significant problem in our wireless world. Detecting RFI or jamming is typically performed with model-based statistical detection or AI-empowered algorithms that use an input…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Christos Ntemkas , Antonios Argyriou

We present two algorithms to identify and flag radio frequency interference (RFI) in radio interferometric imaging data. The first algorithm utilizes the redundancy of visibilities inside a UV cell in the visibility plane to identify…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-27 Srikrishna Sekhar , Ramana Athreya

Low radio frequency experiments performed on Earth are contaminated by both ionospheric effects and radio frequency interference (RFI) from Earth-based sources. The lunar farside provides a unique environment above the ionosphere where RFI…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-15 Neil Bassett , David Rapetti , Jack O. Burns , Keith Tauscher , Robert MacDowall

A modern Q-band low noise amplifier (LNA) front-end is being fitted to the 10.4 m millimeter-wave telescope at the Raman Research Institute (RRI) to support observations in the 40-50 GHz frequency range. To assess the suitability of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-16 Ramesh Balasubramanyam , Suresh Venkatesh , Sharath B. Raju

We investigate the effect of radio-frequency interference (RFI) excision in estimating the cosmological \hi\ 21 cm power spectrum. Flagging of RFI-contaminated channels results in a non-uniform sampling of the instrumental bandpass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-27 Arnab Chakraborty , Abhirup Datta , Aishrila Mazumder

We quantify the effect of radio frequency interference (RFI) on measurements of the 21-cm power spectrum during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). Specifically, we investigate how the frequency structure of RFI source emission generates…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-09 Michael J. Wilensky , Nichole Barry , Miguel F. Morales , Bryna J. Hazelton , Ruby Byrne
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