• DocumentCode
    705123
  • Title

    RFI mitigation implementation for pulsar radioastronomy

  • Author

    Ait-Allal, D. ; Weber, R. ; Dumez-Viou, C. ; Cognard, I. ; Theureau, G.

  • Author_Institution
    Obs. de Paris, Nancy, France
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    23-27 Aug. 2010
  • Firstpage
    1841
  • Lastpage
    1845
  • Abstract
    The observation of known pulsars (pulsar timing) or the search for new pulsars can be limited by radio frequency interference (RFI) generated by Telecommunications activity. In this paper we propose several RFI mitigation techniques to cope with impulsive and/or narrow band RFI. For pulsar timing, we have implemented, a pulse blanker and a cyclostationary blanker, both in real time. Example with real data are shown. For pulsar search, we propose a new approach which combines a hardware-efficient search method and some RFI mitigation capabilities. This method is based on a 2D FFT and Radon transform.
  • Keywords
    Radon transforms; fast Fourier transforms; pulsars; radioastronomy; radiofrequency interference; 2D FFT; RFI mitigation techniques; Radon transform; Telecommunications activity; cyclostationary blanker; hardware-efficient search method; pulsar radioastronomy; pulsar timing; pulse blanker; radio frequency interference; Blanking; Detectors; Noise; Radar; Real-time systems; Time-frequency analysis; Transforms;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Signal Processing Conference, 2010 18th European
  • Conference_Location
    Aalborg
  • ISSN
    2219-5491
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    7096396