TABASCAL II: Removing Multi-Satellite Interference from Point-Source Radio Astronomy Observations
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| author | Finlay, Chris Bassett, Bruce A. Kunz, Martin Oozeer, Nadeem |
| author_facet | Finlay, Chris Bassett, Bruce A. Kunz, Martin Oozeer, Nadeem |
| contents | In the first TABASCAL paper we showed how to calibrate in the presence of Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) sources by simultaneously isolating the trajectories and signals of the RFI sources. Here we show that we can accurately remove RFI from simulated MeerKAT radio interferometry target data, for a single frequency channel, corrupted by up to 9 simultaneous satellites with average RFI amplitudes varying from weak to very strong (1 - 1000 Jy). Additionally, TABASCAL also manages to leverage the RFI signal-to-noise to phase calibrate the recovered astronomical signal. TABASCAL effectively performs a suitably phased up fringe filter for each RFI source which allows essentially perfect removal of RFI across all strengths. As a result, TABASCAL reaches image noises equivalent to the uncorrupted, no-RFI, case. Consequently, point-source science with TABASCAL almost matches the no-RFI case with near perfect completeness for all RFI amplitudes. In contrast the completeness of AOFlagger and idealised 3$σ$ flagging drops below 40% for strong RFI amplitudes where recovered flux errors are $\sim$10x-100x worse than those from TABASCAL. Finally we highlight that TABASCAL works for both static and varying astronomical sources. |
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| spellingShingle | TABASCAL II: Removing Multi-Satellite Interference from Point-Source Radio Astronomy Observations Finlay, Chris Bassett, Bruce A. Kunz, Martin Oozeer, Nadeem Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability In the first TABASCAL paper we showed how to calibrate in the presence of Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) sources by simultaneously isolating the trajectories and signals of the RFI sources. Here we show that we can accurately remove RFI from simulated MeerKAT radio interferometry target data, for a single frequency channel, corrupted by up to 9 simultaneous satellites with average RFI amplitudes varying from weak to very strong (1 - 1000 Jy). Additionally, TABASCAL also manages to leverage the RFI signal-to-noise to phase calibrate the recovered astronomical signal. TABASCAL effectively performs a suitably phased up fringe filter for each RFI source which allows essentially perfect removal of RFI across all strengths. As a result, TABASCAL reaches image noises equivalent to the uncorrupted, no-RFI, case. Consequently, point-source science with TABASCAL almost matches the no-RFI case with near perfect completeness for all RFI amplitudes. In contrast the completeness of AOFlagger and idealised 3$σ$ flagging drops below 40% for strong RFI amplitudes where recovered flux errors are $\sim$10x-100x worse than those from TABASCAL. Finally we highlight that TABASCAL works for both static and varying astronomical sources. |
| title | TABASCAL II: Removing Multi-Satellite Interference from Point-Source Radio Astronomy Observations |
| topic | Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00106 |