Polarization-based online interference mitigation in radio interferometry [IMA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.00062


Mitigation of radio frequency interference (RFI) is essential to deliver science-ready radio interferometric data to astronomers. In this paper, using dual polarized radio interferometers, we propose to use the polarization information of post-correlation interference signals to detect and mitigate them. We use the directional statistics of the polarized signals as the detection criteria and formulate a distributed, wideband spectrum sensing problem. Using consensus optimization, we solve this in an online manner, working with mini-batches of data. We present extensive results based on simulations to demonstrate the feasibility of our method.

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S. Yatawatta
Tue, 2 Jun 20
76/90

Comments: EUSIPCO 2020 accepted