Considerations for a Multi-beam Multi-purpose Survey with FAST
Di Li,Pei Wang,Lei Qian,Marko Krčo,Peng Jiang,Youling Yue,Chenjin Jin,Yan Zhu,Zhichen Pan,Rendong Nan +9 more
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In this paper, the authors devised a survey plan to utilize the full sensitivity of FAST, while minimizing the complexities in operation the system and taking continuous data streams while the surface shape and the focal cabin stay fixed.Abstract:
Having achieved 'first-light' right before the opening ceremony on September 25, 2016, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) is being busily commissioned Its innovative design requires ~1000 points to be measured and driven instead of just the two axes of motion, eg Azimuth and Elevation for most of the conventional antennae, to realize pointing and tracking We have devised a survey plan to utilized the full sensitivity of FAST, while minimizing the complexities in operation the system The 19-beam L band focal plan array will be rotated to specific angles and taking continuous data streams while the surface shape and the focal cabin stay fixed Such a survey will cover the northern sky in about 220 full days Our aim is to obtain data for pulsar search, HI (neutral hydrogen) galaxies, HI imaging, and radio transients, simultaneously, through multiple backends These data sets could be a significant contribution to all related fields in radio astronomy and remain relevant for decadesread more
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WALLABY – an SKA Pathfinder H i survey
B. S. Koribalski,B. S. Koribalski,Lister Staveley-Smith,Tobias Westmeier,Paolo Serra,Kristine Spekkens,O. I. Wong,K. Lee-Waddell,Claudia del P. Lagos,Danail Obreschkow,Emma V. Ryan-Weber,Martin Zwaan,Virginia A. Kilborn,G. Bekiaris,Kenji Bekki,Frank Bigiel,Alessandro Boselli,Albert Bosma,Barbara Catinella,Garima Chauhan,Michelle E. Cluver,Michelle E. Cluver,Matthew Colless,Hélène M. Courtois,Robert A. Crain,W. J. G. de Blok,W. J. G. de Blok,W. J. G. de Blok,H. Dénes,Alan R. Duffy,A. Elagali,A. Elagali,Christopher J. Fluke,Bi-Qing For,George Heald,P. A. Henning,Kelley M. Hess,Kelley M. Hess,Benne W. Holwerda,Cullan Howlett,Thomas H. Jarrett,D. H. Jones,Michael G. Jones,Gyula I. G. Józsa,Russell J. Jurek,E. Jütte,Peter Kamphuis,I. D. Karachentsev,J. Kerp,D. Kleiner,D. Kleiner,Renee C. Kraan-Korteweg,Angel R. Lopez-Sanchez,J. P. Madrid,Martin Meyer,Jeremy Mould,C. Murugeshan,Ray P. Norris,Ray P. Norris,S. H. Oh,Tom Oosterloo,Tom Oosterloo,Attila Popping,Mary E. Putman,T. N. Reynolds,T. N. Reynolds,J. Rhee,Aaron S. G. Robotham,Stuart D. Ryder,Anke Schröder,Li Shao,Li Shao,Adam R. H. Stevens,Edward N. Taylor,J. M. van der Hulst,Lourdes Verdes-Montenegro,Bart P. Wakker,Jiali Wang,Jiali Wang,Matthew Whiting,Benjamin Winkel,Christian Wolf +81 more
TL;DR: The Widefield ASKAP L-band Legacy All-sky Blind Survey (wallaby) as discussed by the authors is a next-generation survey of neutral hydrogen (H i) in the Local Universe, which uses the widefield, high-resolution capability of the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), a radio interferometer consisting of 36 dishes equipped with Phased-Array Feeds.
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The fundamental performance of FAST with 19-beam receiver at L band
Peng Jiang,Ningyu Tang,Li-Gang Hou,Mengting Liu,Marko Krčo,Lei Qian,Jinghai Sun,Tao-Chung Ching,Bin Liu,Yan Duan,Youling Yue,Heng-Qian Gan,Rui Yao,Hui Li,Gaofeng Pan,Dongjun Yu,Hongfei Liu,Di Li,Bo Peng,Jun Yan +19 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) passed national acceptance and is taking pilot cycle of 'Shared-Risk' observations.
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Fast Radio Burst Energetics and Detectability from High Redshifts
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On the FRB luminosity function - - II. Event rate density
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FRB Energetics and detectability from high redshifts
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