1. Home
    2. Journals
    3. Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy

    • KAUSHAL D. BUCH

      Articles written in Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy

    • Volume 44 All articles Published: 25 April 2023 Article ID 0037 TECHNICAL REVIEW

      Real-time RFI filtering for uGMRT: Overview of the released system and relevance to the SKA

      KAUSHAL D. BUCH RUTA KALE MEKHALA MULEY SANJAY KUDALE B. AJITHKUMAR

      More Details Abstract Fulltext PDF

      Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) of impulsive nature is created by sources like sparking on high-power transmission lines due to gap or corona discharge and automobile sparking, and it affects the entire observing frequency bands of low-frequency radio telescopes. Such RFI is a significant problem at theUpgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT). A real-time RFI filtering scheme has been developed and implemented to mitigate the effect on astronomical observations. The scheme works in real-time on precorrelationdata from each antenna and allows the detection of RFI based on median absolute deviation statistics. The samples are identified as RFI-based on user-defined thresholds and are replaced by digital noise, a constant or zeros. We review the testing and implementation of this system at the uGMRT. We illustrate the effectiveness of the filtering for continuum, spectral line and time-domain data. The real-time filter is released for regular observations in the bands falling in 250–1450 MHz, and recent observing cycles show growing usage. Further,we explain the relevance of the released system to the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) receiver chain and possible ways of implementation to meet the computational requirements.

  • Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy | News

    • Continuous Article Publication

      Posted on January 27, 2016

      Since January 2016, the Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy has moved to Continuous Article Publishing (CAP) mode. This means that each accepted article is being published immediately online with DOI and article citation ID with starting page number 1. Articles are also visible in Web of Science immediately. All these have helped shorten the publication time and have improved the visibility of the articles.

    • Editorial Note on Continuous Article Publication

      Posted on July 25, 2019

      Click here for Editorial Note on CAP Mode

© 2023-2024 Indian Academy of Sciences, Bengaluru.

Contact | Site index