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The Five-Hundred-Meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope(FAST) is the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world. In this paper, we make forecast on the FAST HI large scale structure survey by mock observations. We consider a drift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-30 Wenkai Hu , Xin Wang , Fengquan Wu , Yougang Wang , Pengjie Zhang , Xuelei Chen

FAST is the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world. The characteristics of FAST are presented and analyzed in the context of the parameter space to show how FAST science achievements are affected. We summarize the scientific…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-30 Lei Qian , Rui Yao , Jinghai Sun , Jinlong Xu , Zhichen Pan , Peng Jiang

The active reflector is one of the three main innovations of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). The deformation of such a huge spherically shaped reflector into different transient parabolic shapes is achieved…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-08 Hai-Yan Zhang , Ming-Chang Wu , You-Ling Yue , Heng-Qian Gan , Hao Hu , Shi-Jie Huang

In May 1997 a consistent part of the services and structures committed to the industry had already been released to the commissioning group. The telescope itself was, with the exception of the Nasmyth derotators, motors and all the optics…

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) is the world's largest single-dish radio telescope, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is one of its five key science objectives. We conducted a targeted…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-09 Guang-Yuan Song , Zhen-Zhao Tao , Bo-Lun Huang , Yan Cui , Bo Yu , Tong-Jie Zhang

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) has the largest aperture and a 19-beam L-band receiver, making it powerful for investigating the neutral hydrogen atomic gas (HI) in the universe. We present HiFAST…

In this contribution we present the FAST, which is a comprehensive software suite that aims to streamline and automatically manage the forecast of atmospheric and astroclimatic parameters (provided respectively by Meso-Nh and Astro-Meso-Nh…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-09 A. Turchi , E. Masciadri , L. Fini

The standing waves existed in radio telescope data are primarily due to reflections among the instruments, which significantly impact the spectrum quality of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). Eliminating…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-09 Chen Xu , Jie Wang , Yingjie Jing , Fujia Li , Hengqian Gan , Ziming Liu , Tiantian Liang , Qingze Chen , Zerui Liu , Zhipeng Hou , Hao Hu , Huijie Hu , Shijie Huang , Peng Jiang , Chuan-Peng Zhang , Yan Zhu

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) has been fully operational since 11 January 2020. We present a comprehensive analysis of the beam structure for each of the 19 feed horns on FAST's L-band receiver across the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-18 Xunzhou Chen , Tao-Chung Ching , Di Li , Carl Heiles , Timothy Robishaw , Xuan Du , Marko Krco , Peng Jiang , Qingliang Yang , Jiguang Lu

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), the world's largest single-dish radio telescope, lists the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) as one of its key scientific objectives. In this work, we present a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-19 Jian-Kang Li , Zhen-Zhao Tao , Pei Wang , Tong-Jie Zhang

We report the follow-up of 10 pulsars discovered by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio-Telescope (FAST) during its commissioning. The pulsars were discovered at a frequency of 500-MHz using the ultra-wide-band (UWB) receiver in…

The radiative mechanism of coherent radio emission has remained an enigma since the discovery of pulsars, even the emergence of fast radio bursts (FRBs), which exhibit similarities to the single-pulse behavior of pulsars and have opened a…

Fast radio bursts remain one of the most enigmatic astrophysical sources. Observations have significantly progressed over the last few years, thanks to the capabilities of new radio telescopes and the refurbishment of existing ones. Here we…

The first Large Size Telescope (LST-1) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array has been operational since October 2018 at La Palma, Spain. We report on the results obtained during the camera commissioning. The noise level of the readout is…

To assist with the commissioning (Jiang et al. 2019) of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), we performed a pulsar search, with the primary goal of developing and testing the pulsar data acquisition and…

We present the estimation of the solar observation with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). For both the quite Sun and the Sun with radio bursts, when pointing directly to the Sun, the total power received by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-04 Lei Qian , Zhichen Pan , Hongfei Liu , Hengqian Gan , Jinglong Yu , Lei Zhao , Jiguang Lu , Cun Sun , Jingye Yan , 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…

Stray radiation is a considerable challenge for radio telescopes, requiring careful assessment due to its effects. This is crucial when the strong background flux from side lobes significantly affects the total flux, especially for extended…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-27 Qingze Chen , Jie Wang , Yingjie Jing , Ligang Hou , Chen Xu , Tiantian Liang , Xuyang Gao , Jinlin Han , Ziming Liu , Bin Liu , Chuanpeng Zhang , Hengqian Gan , Ming Zhu , Yan Zhu , Peng Jiang

We report results of the beam commissioning and first operation of the 1.3 GHz superconducting RF electron linear accelerator at Fermilab Accelerator Science and Technology (FAST) facility. Construction of the linac was completed and the…

[Abridged] The Sardinia Radio Telescope (SRT) is the new 64-m dish operated by INAF (Italy). Its active surface will allow us to observe at frequencies of up to 116 GHz. At the moment, three receivers, one per focal position, have been…