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Title: | Towards coordinated site monitoring and common strategies for mitigation of Radio Frequency Interference at the Italian radio telescopes | Authors: | ZANICHELLI, Alessandra SERRA, Giampaolo MACK, KARL HEINZ NICOTRA, GAETANO BARTOLINI, MARCO Cantini, Federico DE BIAGGI, Matteo GAUDIOMONTE, Francesco BORTOLOTTI, CLAUDIO ROMA, MAURO POPPI, Sergio BEDOSTI, Francesco RIGHINI, SIMONA BOLLI, Pietro ORLATI, ANDREA AMBROSINI, ROBERTO BUEMI, CARLA SIMONA BUTTU, Marco CASSARO, PIETRO ANTONIO LETO, PAOLO MATTANA, Andrea MIGONI, CARLO MOSCADELLI, Luca PLATANIA, Pier Raffaele TRIGILIO, CORRADO |
Issue Date: | 2022 | Series: | INAF Technical Reports - Rapporti Tecnici INAF | Report: | 149 | Abstract: | We present a project to implement a national common strategy for the mitigation of the steadily deteriorating Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) situation at the Italian radio telescopes. The project involves the Medicina, Noto, and Sardinia dish antennas and comprised the definition of a coordinated plan for site monitoring as well as the implementation of state-of-the-art hardware and software tools for RFI mitigation. Coordinated monitoring of frequency bands up to 40 GHz has been performed by means of continuous observations and dedicated measurement campaigns with fixed stations and mobile laboratories. Measurements were executed on the frequency bands allocated to the radio astronomy and space research service for shared or exclusive use and on the wider ones employed by the current and under-development receivers at the telescopes. Results of the monitoring campaigns provide a reference scenario useful to evaluate the evolution of the interference situation at the telescopes sites and a case series to test and improve the hardware and software tools we conceived to counteract radio frequency interference. We developed a multi-purpose digital backend for high spectral and time resolution observations over large bandwidths. Observational results demonstrate that the spectrometer robustness and sensitivity enable the efficient detection and analysis of interfering signals in radio astronomical data. A prototype off-line software tool for interference detection and flagging has been also implemented. This package is capable to handle the huge amount of data delivered by the most modern instrumentation on board of the Italian radio telescopes, like dense focal plane arrays, and its modularity easen the integration of new algorithms and the re-usability in different contexts or telescopes. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/32081 https://doi.org/10.20371/INAF/TechRep/149 |
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