Kyle Harrison

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IMJul 29, 2020
Supervised Neural Networks for RFI Flagging

Kyle Harrison, Amit Kumar Mishra

Neural network (NN) based methods are applied to the detection of radio frequency interference (RFI) in post-correlation,post-calibration time/frequency data. While calibration doesaffect RFI for the sake of this work a reduced dataset inpost-calibration is used. Two machine learning approachesfor flagging real measurement data are demonstrated usingthe existing RFI flagging technique AOFlagger as a groundtruth. It is shown that a single layer fully connects networkcan be trained using each time/frequency sample individuallywith the magnitude and phase of each polarization and Stokesvisibilities as features. This method was able to predict aBoolean flag map for each baseline to a high degree of accuracy achieving a Recall of 0.69 and Precision of 0.83 and anF1-Score of 0.75.