Removal and replacement of interference in tied-array radio pulsar observations using the spectral kurtosis estimator
(2021)
Journal Article
Purver, M., Bassa, C. G., Cognard, I., Janssen, G. H., Karuppusamy, R., Kramer, M., …Stappers, B. W. (2022). Removal and replacement of interference in tied-array radio pulsar observations using the spectral kurtosis estimator. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 510(2), 1597-1611. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab3434
We describe how to implement the spectral kurtosis method of interference removal (zapping) on a digitized signal of averaged power values. Spectral kurtosis is a hypothesis test, analogous to the t-test, with a null hypothesis that the amplitudes fr... Read More about Removal and replacement of interference in tied-array radio pulsar observations using the spectral kurtosis estimator.