Title:	Detection, excision and statistics of interference at the Mauritius radio telescope
Authors:	Sachdev, S. Udaya Shankar, N.
Keywords:	Metre-wave radio telescope; Fourier synthesis; Interference excision;
Issue Date:	2001
Publisher:	Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, India.
Citation:	Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy, 2001, Vol. 22, p213-227.
Abstract:	A technique to detect man-made interference in the visibility data of the Mauritius Radio Telescope (MRT) has been developed. This technique is based on the understanding that the interference is generally ‘spiky’ in nature and has Fourier components beyond the maximum frequency which can arise from the radio sky and can therefore be identified. We take the sum of magnitudes of visibilities on all the baselines measure data given time to improved detectability. This is then high-pass filtered to get a time series from which the contribution of the sky is removed. Interference is detected in the high-pass data using an interative scheme. In each interation, interference with amplitudes beyond a certain threshold is detected. These points are then removed from the original time series and the resulting data are high-pass filtered and the process repeated. We have also studied the statistics of the strength, numbers, time of occurrence and duration of the interference at the MRT. The statistics indicate that most of ten the interference excision can be carried out while post-integrating the visibilities by giving a zero weight to the interference points.
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/2289/724
ISSN:	0250-6335
Copyright:	Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, India.
Appears in Collections:	Research Papers (A&A)

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