English
Related papers

Related papers: Considerations for a Multi-beam Multi-purpose Surv…

200 papers

AST/RO, a 1.7 m diameter telescope for astronomy and aeronomy studies at wavelengths between 200 and 2000 microns, was installed at the South Pole during the 1994-1995 Austral summer. The telescope operates continuously through the Austral…

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…

The Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA (ALFALFA) Survey is a program aimed at obtaining a census of HI-bearing objects over a cosmologically significant volume of the local Universe. It will cover 7074 square degrees of the high latitude sky…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Riccardo Giovanelli

An all sky redshift survey, using hydrogen 21 cm emission to locate galaxies, can be used to track the wavelength of baryon acoustic oscillations imprints from z ~ 1.5 to z = 0. This will allow precise determination of the evolution of dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jeffrey B. Peterson , Kevin Bandura , Ue Li Pen

We present the updated design of HighSpec, a high-resolution $\mathcal{R} \sim 20,000$ spectrograph designed for the Multi Aperture Spectroscopic Telescope (MAST). HighSpec offers three observing modes centered at the Ca II H&K, Mg b…

We have mapped the total sky brightness at 1465 MHz in two adjacent 60-degree declination bands with the portable 5.5-m parabolic reflector of the Galactic Emission Mapping (GEM) project, an on-going international collaboration to survey…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Tello , T. Villela , G. F. Smoot , S. Torres , M. Bersanelli

For the last 25 years, the 21 cm line has been used productively to investigate the large-scale structure of the Universe, its peculiar velocity field and the measurement of cosmic parameters. In February 2005 a blind HI survey that will…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-07-24 Riccardo Giovanelli

The Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) is expected to launch in the mid-2020s. With its wide-field near-infrared (NIR) camera, it will survey the sky to unprecedented detail. As part of normal operations and as the result of…

In the present paper we consider the Type-2.x and Type-3.x extraterrestrial von-Neumann probes and study the problem of their detectability by the world's largest radio telescope: the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope…

Popular Physics · Physics 2021-10-05 Zaza Osmanov

We report the properties of more than 800 bursts detected from the repeating fast radio burst (FRB) source FRB 20201124A with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio telescope (FAST) during an extremely active episode on UTC…

An overview is given of the Permanent All Sky Survey (PASS) project. The primary goal of PASS is the detection of all transiting giant planets in the entire sky, complete for stellar systems of magnitudes ~ 5.5-10.5. Since the sample stars…

We show that, in addition to specific science goals, there is a strong case for conducting an all-sky (i.e. the visible 3-pi steradians) SKA continuum survey which does not fit neatly into conventional science cases. History shows that the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-19 Ray P. Norris , Kaustuv Basu , Michael Brown , Ettore Carretti , Anna D. Kapinska , Isabella Prandoni , Lawrence Rudnick , Nick Seymour

The all sky surveys done by the Palomar Observatory Schmidt, the European Southern Observatory Schmidt, and the United Kingdom Schmidt, the InfraRed Astronomical Satellite and the 2 Micron All Sky Survey have proven to be extremely useful…

The small mission A-STAR (All-Sky Transient Astrophysics Reporter) aims to locate the X-ray counterparts to ALIGO and other gravitational wave detector sources, to study the poorly-understood low luminosity gamma-ray bursts, and to find a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 J. P. Osborne , P. O'Brien , P. Evans , G. W. Fraser , A. Martindale , J. -L. Atteia , B. Cordier , S. Mereghetti

The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) mission, launched on 13 June 2012, is the first focusing high-energy X-ray telescope in orbit. NuSTAR operates in the band from 3 -- 79 keV, extending the sensitivity of focusing far beyond…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Fiona A. Harrison , William W. Craig , Finn E. Christensen , Charles J. Hailey , Will W. Zhang , Steven E. Boggs , Daniel Stern , W. Rick Cook , Karl Forster , Paolo Giommi , Brian W. Grefenstette , Yunjin Kim , Takao Kitaguchi , Jason E Koglin , Kristin K. Madsen , Peter H. Mao , Hiromasa Miyasaka , Kaya Mori , Matteo Perri , Michael J. Pivovaroff , Simonetta Puccetti , Vikram R. Rana , Niels J. Westergaard , Jason Willis , Andreas Zoglauer , Hongjun An , Matteo Bachetti , Nicolas M. Barriere , Eric C. Bellm , Varun Bhalerao , Nicolai F. Brejnholt , Felix Fuerst , Carl C. Liebe , Craig B. Markwardt , Melania Nynka , Julia K. Vogel , Dominic J. Walton , Daniel R. Wik , David M. Alexander , Lynn R. Cominsky , Ann E. Hornschemeier , Allan Hornstrup , Victoria M. Kaspi , Greg M. Madejski , Giorgio Matt , Silvano Molendi , David M. Smith , John A. Tomsick , Marco Ajello , David R. Ballantyne , Mislav Balokovic , Diddier Barret , Franz E. Bauer , Roger D. Blandford , W. Niel Brandt , Laura W. Brenneman , James Chiang , Deepto Chakrabarty , Jerome Chenevez , Andrea Comastri , Martin Elvis , Andrew C. Fabian , Duncan Farrah , Chris L. Fryer , Eric V. Gotthelf , Jonathan E. Grindlay , David J. Helfand , Roman Krivonos , David L. Meier , Jon M. Miller , Lorenzo Natalucci , Patrick Ogle , Eran O. Ofek , Andrew Ptak , Stephen P. Reynolds , Jand R. Rigby , Gianpiero Tagliaferri , Stephen E. Thorsett , Ezequiel Treister , C. Megan Urry

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,…

We present the HI galaxy observation results of the FATHOMER (FAst neuTral HydrOgen intensity Mapping ExpeRiment), a pilot drift scan survey by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). The survey comprises 28 hours…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-23 Shuanghao Shu , Yichao Li , Wenxiu Yang , Jiaxin Wang , Wenkai Hu , Furen Deng , Shifan Zuo , Yougang Wang , Xuelei Chen

LOFAR is the only radio telescope that is presently capable of high-sensitivity, high-resolution (<1 mJy/b and <15") observations at ultra-low frequencies (<100 MHz). To utilise these capabilities, the LOFAR Surveys Key Science Project is…

A new generation of observational science instruments is dramatically increasing collected data volumes in a range of fields. These instruments include the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), terrestrial…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-24 David R. Thompson , Sarah Burke-Spolaor , Adam T. Deller , Walid A. Majid , Divya Palaniswamy , Steven J. Tingay , Kiri L. Wagstaff , Randall B. Wayth

Search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has been mainly focused on nearby stars and their planets in recent years. Barnard's star is the second closest star system to the sun and the closest star in the FAST observable sky which…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-17 Zhen-Zhao Tao , Bo-Lun Huang , Xiao-Hang Luan , Jian-Kang Li , Hai-Chen Zhao , Hong-Feng Wang , Tong-Jie Zhang