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The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) completed its first light flight in May of 2010 using the facility mid-infrared instrument FORCAST. Since then, FORCAST has successfully completed thirteen science flights on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 T. L. Herter , J. D. Adams , J. M. De Buizer , G. E. Gull , J. Schoenwald , C. P. Henderson , L. D. Keller , T. Nikola , G. Stacey , W. D. Vacca

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) instrument onboard GLAST offers a tremendous opportunity for future blazar studies. In order to fully benefit from its capabilities and to maximize the scientific return from the LAT, it is of great importance…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 L. Fuhrmann , J. A. Zensus , T. P. Krichbaum , E. Angelakis , A. C. S. Readhead

The Parkes multibeam pulsar survey is a high-frequency, fast-sampled survey of the Galactic Plane, expected to discover at least 500 new pulsars. To date, over 200 pulsars have been found, including several young pulsars and at least one…

Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) experiments exploit the clock-like behaviour of an array of millisecond pulsars, with the goal of detecting low-frequency gravitational waves. PTA experiments have been in operation over the last decade, led by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 Caterina Tiburzi

This work presents the initial results of the drift-scan observation for the neutral hydrogen (HI) intensity mapping survey with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). The data analyzed in this work were collected…

We present the DSA-2000: a world-leading radio survey telescope and multi-messenger discovery engine for the next decade. The array will be the first true radio camera, outputting science-ready image data over the 0.7 - 2 GHz frequency…

GLAST, a detector for cosmic gamma rays in the range from 20 MeV to 300 GeV, will be launched in space in 2005. Breakthroughs are expected in particular in the study of particle acceleration mechanisms in space and of gamma ray bursts, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-03 Alessandro de Angelis

We investigate the possibilities that pulsars act as the lens in gravitational microlensing events towards the galactic bulge or a spiral arm. Our estimation is based on expectant survey and observations of FAST (Five hundred meter Aperture…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 S. Dai , R. X. Xu , A. Esamdin

The Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Sub-millimetre Telescope (BLAST) will operate on a Long Duration Balloon platform with large format bolometer arrays at 250, 350 and 500 microns, initially using a 2m mirror, with plans to increase to 2.5m.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Douglas Scott , the BLAST Team

We report the phase-connected timing ephemeris, polarization pulse profiles, Faraday rotation measurements, and Rotating-Vector-Model (RVM) fitting results of twelve millisecond pulsars (MSPs) discovered with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture…

We investigate the number and type of pulsars that will be discovered with the low-frequency radio telescope LOFAR. We consider different search strategies for the Galaxy, for globular clusters and for galaxies other than our own. We show…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Joeri van Leeuwen , Ben Stappers

We present the discovery of 24 pulsars in 15 Globular Clusters (GCs) using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). These include the first pulsar discoveries in M2, M10, and M14. Most of the new systems are either…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-21 Zhichen Pan , Lei Qian , Xiaoyun Ma , Kuo Liu , Lin Wang , Jintao Luo , Zhen Yan , Scott Ransom , Duncan Lorimer , Di Li , Peng Jiang

The Fluorescence detector Array of Single-pixel Telescopes (FAST) is a design concept for a next-generation UHECR observatory, addressing the requirements for a large-area, low-cost detector suitable for measuring the properties of…

Rotating Radio Transients (RRATs) are a class of pulsars characterized by sporadic bursts of radio emission, which make them difficult to detect in typical periodicity-based pulsar searches. Using newly developed post-processing techniques…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Chen Karako-Argaman , the GBT Drift-scan Collaboration

We are currently undertaking a survey to search for new pulsars and the recently found Rotating RAdio Transcients (RRATs) in the Cygnus OB complex. The survey uses the Westerbrok Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) in a unique way called the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Rubio-Herrera , R. Braun , G. Janssen , J. van Leeuwen , B. W. Stappers

The fast Fourier transform (FFT) based periodicity search methods provide an efficient way to search for millisecond and binary pulsars but encounter significant sensitivity degradation while searching for long period and short duty cycle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-22 Shubham Singh , Jayanta Roy , Bhaswati Bhattacharyya , Ujjwal Panda , Benjamin W. Stappers , Maura A. McLaughlin

We report the discovery of an eclipsing binary millisecond pulsar in the globular cluster M92 (NGC6341) with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). PSR J1717+4308A, or M92A, has a pulse frequency of 316.5~Hz…

Rotation-powered pulsars are excellent laboratories for study of particle acceleration as well as fundamental physics of strong gravity, strong magnetic fields, high densities and relativity. I will review the outstanding questions in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Alice K. Harding

In radio astronomy, radio frequency interference (RFI) becomes more and more serious for radio observational facilities. The RFI always influences the search and study of the interesting astronomical objects. Mitigating the RFI becomes an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-03 Chuan-Peng Zhang , Jin-Long Xu , Jie Wang , Yingjie Jing , Ziming Liu , Ming Zhu , Peng Jiang

We conducted a drift-scan observation campaign using the 305-m Arecibo telescope in January and March 2020 when the observatory was temporarily closed during the intense earthquakes and the initial outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic,…