The faint radio sky: radio astronomy becomes mainstream

The Faint Radio Sky

Impact of Cognitive Radio on Radio Astronomy

The introduction of new communication techniques requires an increase in the efficiency of spectrum usage. Cognitive radio is one of the new techniques that fosters spectrum efficiency by using unoccupied frequency spectrum for communications. However, cognitive radio will increase the transmission power density and cause an increasing level of Radio Frequency Interference (RFI), which may impa...

Radio Frequency Interference Mitigation in Radio Astronomy

Faint radio samples: the key to understanding radio galaxies

The large number of differences between highand low-redshift radio galaxies have almost all been discovered by looking at the bright 3C sample of radio sources. This has the disadvantage that the strong correlation between radio luminosity and redshift within a single sample makes it impossible to be determine whether these differences are the result of cosmic evolution or whether they are simp...

Radio Astronomy with RASDR2

The RASDR design team is releasing a software-defined receiver (SDR) for radio astronomy called RASDR2 7 . The receiver consists of two high-density circuit boards -a wide-band femtocell 8 chip on the front end analog interface MyriadRF board 9 linked to a DigiRed digitization and function control board -coupled to a computer via either a USB2 or USB3 interface. RASDRViewer software runs in a W...