The brightness and spatial distributions of terrestrial radio sources

Offringa, Andre; Butcher, Harvey; de Bruyn, A. G.; Zaroubi, Saleem; Koopmans, L. V. E.; Wijnholds, S. J.; Abdalla, Filipe B.; Brouw, W. N.; Ciardi, Benedetta; Iliev, I. T.; Harker, Geraint; Mellema, G.; Bernardi, G.; Zarka, P.; Ghosh, A.; Alexov, A.; Anderson, J. M.; Asgekar, A.; Avruch, Ian M.; Bell, Michael R.; Bentum, M. J.; Breitling, F.; de Gasperin, F.; de Geus, Eugene; de Vos, Marco; Duscha, S.; Fallows, R. A.; Frieswijk, W.; Garrett, M. A.; Iacobelli, M.; Klijn, W.; Kondratiev, V. I.; Kuniyoshi, M.; Kuper, G.; van Leeuwen, J.; Maat, P.; Mann, Gottfried; McKean, J. P.; Norden, M. J.; Pizzo, R.; Polatidis, A. G.; Rafferty, D. A.; Reich, W.; Van Nieuwpoort, Rob; Sluman, J.; Sobey, C.; Tang, Y.; Toribio, C.; Vermeulen, R. C.; Vocks, Christian; Wise, M. J.

The brightness and spatial distributions of terrestrial radio sources

Date

2013

Authors

Offringa, Andre

Butcher, Harvey

de Bruyn, A. G.

Zaroubi, Saleem

Koopmans, L. V. E.

Wijnholds, S. J.

Abdalla, Filipe B.

Brouw, W. N.

Ciardi, Benedetta

Iliev, I. T.

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Abstract

Faint undetected sources of radio-frequency interference (RFI) might become visible in long radio observations when they are consistently present over time. Thereby, they might obstruct the detection of the weak astronomical signals of interest. This issu