Rfi Mitigation Implementation For Pulsar Radioastronomy

Abstract

International audienceThe observation of known pulsars (pulsar timing) or the search for new pulsars can be limited by radio frequency interference (RFI) generated by Telecommunications activity. In this paper we propose several RFI mitigation techniques to cope with impulsive and/or narrow band RFI. For pulsar timing, we have implemented, a pulse blanker and a cyclostationary blanker,both in real time. Exemple with real data are shown. For pulsar search, we propose a new approach which combines a hardware-efficient search method and some RFI mitigation capabilities. This method is based on a 2D FFT and Radon transform