Field Trials of an RFI Adaptive Filter for Pulsar Observations M. Kesteven, R.N. Manchester, G. Hampson & A. Brown Australia Telescope National Facility.

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Field Trials of an RFI Adaptive Filter for Pulsar Observations M. Kesteven, R.N. Manchester, G. Hampson & A. Brown Australia Telescope National Facility Groningen, 28 March 2010

RFI mitigation. Groningen, 2010 Outline Introduction Adaptive Filter details Results Conclusions

RFI mitigation. Groningen, 2010 Introduction The RFI mitigation work at the Parkes Observatory was given greater emphasis when one of the Parkes Pulsar observing bands became heavily polluted with RFI (digital TV). The prospects were favourable: The levels were substantial, but not so large as to overload the system. Some of the critical hardware needed was already in place. A new digital backend with reserve capacity came on-line. An adaptive filter works well with pulsar observing.

RFI mitigation. Groningen, 2010 Introduction (II) The Parkes Observatory recently commissioned a new pulsar processing machine. This a digital polyphase filterbank that is capable of 8-bit sampling at a rate of 2GHz for an observational bandwidth of up to 1GHz. It supports a range of configurations including an online-folding mode with up to 2048 pulse phase and radio frequency bins. For observations in the 50cm (~700 MHz) band there is spare capacity which could readily be deployed for RFI mitigation. This takes the form of an adaptive filter in conjunction with a reference antenna directed towards a TV tower, the source of RFI for the receiver’s band.

RFI mitigation. Groningen, 2010 The basic narrow-band adaptive filter

RFI mitigation. Groningen, 2010 Filter details = residual RFI / unfiltered RFI

RFI mitigation. Groningen, 2010 The broad band filter, as implemented

RFI mitigation. Groningen, 2010 PDFB3: Real-time RFI Mitigation Filter output Ref ant RFI Mitigation Off Cross-Correlation Reference antenna pointed at RFI source 2048 channels across band Signal*reference cross- correlation subtracted from data Filter updates at 1ms intervals to follow tropospheric multi- path propagation Single reference can be applied to both polarisations of telescope signal Main application (so far): Digital TV signals in 50cm band 4-m reference antenna pointed toward Mt Ulandra, 200 km south of Parkes RFI Mitigation On! 64 MHz at 50 cm (655 – 717 MHz)

RFI mitigation. Groningen, 2010 PSR J at 50cm RFI Mitigation Off RFI Mitigation On S/N ~ 1040 in 4 min S/N ~ 1710! Pulsar signal under RFI is recovered with no (evident) perturbation Improvement in S/N will be greater with weaker pulsars Expect to apply to regular 50cm observations with APSR soon Stokes I

RFI mitigation. Groningen, 2010 Filter OFF Filter ON

RFI mitigation. Groningen, 2010 (operational details)

RFI mitigation. Groningen, 2010 Operational details  determines the speed of the filter in responding to changing conditions. In effect it sets the rate at which g n converges on the optimum setting. A value of  [0.1/(mean IF power)] works well for us   needs to be smaller than time scale of the changing conditions in the propagation path. We use 1 msec. The filter gain is computed as :

Propagation Issues - movie

RFI mitigation. Groningen, 2010 How well does the filter work? 1. Compare the observed and predicted attenuation of the RFI at the filter output. There is a good match – the filter is working as designed. 2. Relate the residual RFI to the science requirements: The rms in the pulse /phase plot has dropped to close to the rms of the RFI-free condition. The residual RFI after filtering is less than 10% of the receiver bandpass. 3. The pulse shape is not affected by the filter, neither inside nor outside the bands affected by RFI.

RFI mitigation. Groningen, 2010 Filter performance (1) RFI at the filter output RED : filter OFF BLUE : filter ON BLACK : 10% of the receiver bandpass RFI in the reference antenna

RFI mitigation. Groningen, 2010 Filter performance(2) : the RFI attenuation RED : the measured attenuation BLUE : the attenuation predicted from the INR in each channel

Adaptive Filter Performance (1) Adopting the RA-769 criteria we can estimate the limitations of the adaptive filter. 1.The ratio of the RFI powers in the main and reference antennas is given by :  = (Area of 0 dBi antenna) / (Area of the reference antenna)  = (  R) 2 [= at 600 MHz, 4m ref antenna] 2.The residual power (due to the RFI) in the filtered output : resid =  * T sys * INR / (1 + INR)

3. resid tends to  *T sys for large INR. (~0.0016*T sys ) 4. The filter starts to fade out at INR ~ 1, with resid ~  *T sys /2 5.Thereafter resid falls gracefully to 0 as the INR decreases. NOTE : T sys is the system temperature of the reference antenna

RFI mitigation. Groningen, 2010 Current Status The filter is embedded in the pulsar processor, and is available for on-line operations. However, the receiver has been tuned to a new frequency – Planned nearby transmitters would violate the linearity requirements, so for continuity in the pulsar timing, prudence dictated a re-tune. We still have RFI to contend with, from a different direction, and with less RFI.

RFI mitigation. Groningen, 2010 New 50 cm environment : Peak Hill WHITE: Unfiltered RED: Reference

RFI mitigation. Groningen, 2010 Peak Hill: unfiltered filtered

Conclusions 0. The filter works well. 1. The filter meets RA.769 in that the residual RFI is below the 10%T sys. 2.It would satisfy RA.769 for VLBI, and for most pulsar work. 3.It is not so clear for a pulsar blind search mode : low frequency modulation in the range 1 ms to 5 sec could compromise the period search machine. 4.It would probably not work for spectroscopy.

RFI mitigation. Groningen, 2010 Contact Us Phone: or Web: Thank you Australia Telescope National Facility Michael Kesteven Phone: Web: