%AWilensky, Michael%AHazelton, Bryna%AMorales, Miguel%BJournal Name: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society; Journal Volume: 510; Journal Issue: 4; Related Information: CHORUS Timestamp: 2022-11-26 20:10:34 %D2021%IOxford University Press %JJournal Name: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society; Journal Volume: 510; Journal Issue: 4; Related Information: CHORUS Timestamp: 2022-11-26 20:10:34 %K %MOSTI ID: 10361907 %PMedium: X %TExploring the consequences of chromatic data excision in 21-cm epoch of reionization power spectrum observations %XABSTRACT

We explore how chromatic radio frequency interference (RFI) flags affect 21-cm power spectrum measurements. We particularly study flags that are coarser than the analysis resolution. We find that such RFI flags produce excess power in the EoR window in much the same way as residual RFI. We use Fast Holographic Deconvolution (fhd) simulations to explain this as a result of chromatic disruptions in the interferometric sampling function of the array. We also use these simulations in conjunction with Error Propagated Power Spectrum with InterLeaved Observed Noise to show that without modifying current flagging strategies or implementing extremely accurate and complete foreground subtraction, 21-cm EoR experiments will fail to make a significant detection. As a mitigation strategy, we find that circumventing the chromatic structure altogether by flagging the entire analysis band when RFI is detected is simple to implement and highly successful. This demands a detection strategy with a low false-positive rate in order to prevent excessive data loss.

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