We discuss the detectability of large-scale HI intensity fluctuations using the FAST telescope. We present forecasts for the accuracy of measuring the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations and constraining the properties of dark energy. The FAST 19-beam L-band receivers (1.05--1.45 GHz) can provide constraints on the matter power spectrum and dark energy equation of state parameters (w0,wa) that are comparable to the BINGO and CHIME experiments. For one year of integration time we find that the optimal survey area is 6000deg2. However, observing with larger frequency coverage at higher redshift (0.95--1.35 GHz) improves the projected errorbars on the HI power spectrum by more than 2σ confidence level. The combined constraints from FAST, CHIME, BINGO and Planck CMB observations can provide reliable, stringent constraints on the dark energy equation of state.
@article{arxiv.1511.03006,
title = {HI intensity mapping with FAST},
author = {Marie-Anne Bigot-Sazy and Yin-Zhe Ma and Richard A. Battye and Ian W. A. Browne and Tianyue Chen and Clive Dickinson and Stuart Harper and Bruno Maffei and Lucas C. Olivari and Peter N. Wilkinson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.03006},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
7 pages, 3 figures, submitted to "Frontiers in Radio Astronomy and FAST Early Sciences Symposium 2015" conference proceeding