Radio-astronomical imaging in the presence of strong radio interference

DOI10.1109/18.857787zbMATH Open1003.78500arXivastro-ph/0008239OpenAlexW2124677408WikidataQ56485816 ScholiaQ56485816MaRDI QIDQ4545792FDOQ4545792

Authors: Amir Leshem, Alle-Jan van der Veen 

Publication date: 30 October 2002

Published in: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: 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 filtering techniques on radio astronomical imaging. Current deconvolution procedures such as CLEAN are shown to be unsuitable to spatially filtered data, and the necessary corrections are derived. To that end, we reformulate the imaging (deconvolution/calibration) process as a sequential estimation of the locations of astronomical sources. This not only leads to an extended CLEAN algorithm, the formulation also allows to insert other array signal processing techniques for direction finding, and gives estimates of the expected image quality and the amount of interference suppression that can be achieved. Finally, a maximum likelihood procedure for the imaging is derived, and an approximate ML image formation technique is proposed to overcome the computational burden involved. Some of the effects of the new algorithms are shown in simulated images. Keywords: Radio astronomy, synthesis imaging, parametric imaging, interference mitigation, spatial filtering, maximum likelihood, minimum variance, CLEAN.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0008239

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zbMATH Keywords

spatial filteringradio astronomyCLEANsynthesis imaging

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Technical applications of optics and electromagnetic theory (78A55) Computational methods for problems pertaining to astronomy and astrophysics (85-08)

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• Adaptive radio astronomy
• RFI detection by automated feature extraction and statistical analysis
• Broadband beamforming of dense aperture array (DAA) and focal plane array (FPA) signals using 3D spatio-temporal filters for applications in aperture synthesis radio astronomy
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• The development of radio astronomy
• Performance analysis of spatial filtering of RF interference in radio astronomy

Uses Software

• CLEAN

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