Radio Frequency Interferences (RFI) represents one of the major issues especially in single-dish low frequency radioastronomic observations. Several solutions have been investigated to face the problem. Among them a wide-band digital spectrometer is used together to a RFI monitoring station placed close to the radio-telescope and eventually supported by a RFI mobile laboratory. In this paper a system combining such as approaches is described. The first one is a wide-band FFT spectrometer designed for RFI purposes, then the second consists of a station dedicated to RF environment monitoring. Advantages and drawbacks of this hybrid approach will be shown.

Date Published: 23 July 2014
PDF: 10 pages
Proc. SPIE 9153, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy VII, 915338 (23 July 2014); doi: 10.1117/12.2056619

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 9153:
Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy VII
Wayne S. Holland; Jonas Zmuidzinas, Editor(s)