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WVU Radio Astronomy Instrumentation Lab

RAIL is a multidisciplinary group at WVU with research goals focused on cosmology, radio transients, instrumentation, & science education

WVU Radio Astronomy Instrumentation Lab (WVURAIL) 📡

Welcome to the GitHub organization for the West Virginia University Radio Astronomy Instrumentation Lab. We develop open-source hardware, FPGA/SDR signal processing pipelines, software instrumentation, and educational curricula for radio astronomy.


🧭 Organization Structure & Key Repositories

1. Core Software & Signal Processing

  • gr-radio_astro — Flagship GNU Radio out-of-tree modules and blocks for radio astronomy instrumentation.
  • datatrawl — Storage-safe archive trawling for resumable telescope data processing.
  • rawice — Data acquisition and instrumentation control tools.
  • kotekan — High-performance radio data processing pipeline.

2. Open-Source Hardware & Schematics

  • DigitalNoiseSource — Consolidated open-source PCB schematics, Gerbers, and FPGA/RF firmware.
  • lna-v3-hi-band — Consolidated open-source PCB schematics, Gerbers, and FPGA/RF firmware.

3. Technical Memos & Documentation

4. Education & Outreach (DSPIRA)

  • dspira-lessons — Digital Signal Processing in Radio Astronomy (DSPIRA) curriculum, lesson plans, and classroom resources.
  • dspira — DSPIRA program portals and teaching tools.

🛠️ For New Students & Collaborators

  • Starting an analysis pipeline? Check out our datatrawl-analyzer-template repository to bootstrap your project.
  • Looking for historical or superseded projects? Filter repositories by the archive tag.

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  1. gr-radio_astro gr-radio_astro Public

    This package provides GNUradio OOT modules and grc flowgraphs that fascilates Radio Astronomy Observations with software defined radio devices.

    Python 45 16

  2. DigitalNoiseSource DigitalNoiseSource Public

    Open-source radio astronomy hardware, PCB schematics, and FPGA/RF firmware library

    Jupyter Notebook 1

  3. dspira-lessons dspira-lessons Public

    Digital Signal Processing in Radio Astronomy - Lessons Portal

    HTML 8 3

  4. lightwork lightwork Public

    Lightwork Memo Series

    Python 18 1

  5. datatrawl datatrawl Public

    Storage-safe archive trawling for resumable telescope-data analysis.

    Python 1

  6. pilot-proxy pilot-proxy Public

    Pilot-Informed F-Statistic Detection of Sub-Noise RF Interference

    Python

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