RFI mitigation at Nancay Observatory: Impulsive Signal Processing

International audienceThe observation of known pulsars (pulsar timing) or the search for new pulsars can be limited by radio frequency interference (RFI) generated by Telecommunication activity. In this paper, we propose several RFI mitigation techniques to cope with impulsive and/or narrow band RFI. For pulsar timing, we have implemented, a pulse blanker and a cyclostationary blanker, both in real time. For pulsar search, we propose a new approach which combines a hardware-efficient search method and some RFI mitigation capabilities. This method is based on a 2D FFT and Radon transform