The statistics of low frequency radio interference at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory
We characterize the low frequency radio-frequency interference (RFI) environment at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO), the location selected for the low-frequency component of the Square Kilometre Array. Data were collected from the BIGHORNS instrument, located at the MRO, which record...
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| author | Sokolowski, M. Wayth, Randall Lewis, M. |
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| description | We characterize the low frequency radio-frequency interference (RFI) environment at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO), the location selected for the low-frequency component of the Square Kilometre Array. Data were collected from the BIGHORNS instrument, located at the MRO, which records a contiguous bandwidth between 70 and 300 MHz, between November 2014 to March 2015 inclusive. The data were processed to identify RFI, and we describe a series of statistics in both the time and frequency domain, including modeling of the RFI occupancy and signal power as a series of distribution functions, with the goal of aiding future scientists and operation staff in observation planning. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-433072018-03-29T09:07:47Z The statistics of low frequency radio interference at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory Sokolowski, M. Wayth, Randall Lewis, M. We characterize the low frequency radio-frequency interference (RFI) environment at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO), the location selected for the low-frequency component of the Square Kilometre Array. Data were collected from the BIGHORNS instrument, located at the MRO, which records a contiguous bandwidth between 70 and 300 MHz, between November 2014 to March 2015 inclusive. The data were processed to identify RFI, and we describe a series of statistics in both the time and frequency domain, including modeling of the RFI occupancy and signal power as a series of distribution functions, with the goal of aiding future scientists and operation staff in observation planning. 2016 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/43307 10.1109/GEMCCON.2015.7386856 restricted |
| spellingShingle | Sokolowski, M. Wayth, Randall Lewis, M. The statistics of low frequency radio interference at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory |
| title | The statistics of low frequency radio interference at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory |
| title_full | The statistics of low frequency radio interference at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory |
| title_fullStr | The statistics of low frequency radio interference at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory |
| title_full_unstemmed | The statistics of low frequency radio interference at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory |
| title_short | The statistics of low frequency radio interference at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory |
| title_sort | statistics of low frequency radio interference at the murchison radio-astronomy observatory |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/43307 |