The observational facilities of radio astronomy keep constant upgrades and developments to achieve better capabilities including increasing the time of the data recording and frequency resolutions, and increasing the receiving and recording bandwidth. However in contrast, only a limited spectrum resource has been allocated to radio astronomy by the International Telecommunication Union, resulting in that the radio observational instrumentations are inevitably exposed to undesirable radio frequency interference (RFI) signals which originate mainly from the terrestrial human activity and are becoming stronger with time. RFIs degrade the quality of data and even lead to invalid data. The impact of RFIs on scientific outcome becomes more and more serious. In this article, the requirement for RFI mitigation is motivated, and the RFI characteristics, mitigation techniques, and strategies are reviewed. The mitigation strategies adopted at some representative observatories, telescopes, and arrays are also introduced. The advantages and shortcomings of the four classes of RFI mitigation strategies are discussed and presented, applicable at the connected causal stages: pre-ventive, pre-detection, pre-correlation, and post-correlation. The proper identification and flagging of RFI is the key to the reduction of data loss and improvement in data quality, and is also the ultimate goal of developing RFI mitigation technique. This can be achieved through a strategy involving a combination of the discussed techniques in stages. The recent advances in the high speed digital signal processing and high performance computing allow for performing RFI excision of the large data volumes generated from large telescopes or arrays in both real time and offline modes, aiding the proposed strategy.%一直以来,射电天文装备不断得到升级和发展,以使其具有更好的观测性能,包括提高数据记录的时间和频率分辨率以及获得更高的接收和记录带宽等.然而与之形成矛盾的是:国际电信联盟(International Telecommunication Union,ITU)仅为射电天文分配了非常有限的频谱资源,导致的后果是射电观测设备不可避免地受到日益增强的非天文信号的影响,后者的来源主要是人类的通信活动和日常生活,这就构成了通常射电天文中所说的射频干扰(Radio Frequency Interference,RFI).射频干扰会降低数据质量甚至导致数据无效,对科学结果的影响越来越严重.对RFI消减的需求进行分析,总结了RFI的特性、抑制和消减的技术和方案,并介绍了一些有代表性的射电望远镜(或阵列)中采用的RFI消减方法;还分析比较了4种常用方案,即预防、预检测、预相关和后相关的优势和不足.对RFI进行准确的识别和标记是减少数据损失从而有效提高数据质量的关键,也是发展RFI消减技术的最终目的.通过研究不难发现,上述4种方案的组合运用将具有更高的实用价值.近几年来,随着高速数字信号处理和高性能计算的迅速发展,依赖大量计算的实时模式下的预检测以及离线模式下从大型望远镜阵列所产生的大规模干涉相关数据中检测RFI已经成为可能.
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