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Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) is a Chinese mega-science project to build the largest single dish radio telescope in the world. Its innovative engineering concept and design pave a new road to realize a huge…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-01 Rendong Nan , Di Li , Chengjin Jin , Qiming Wang , Lichun Zhu , Wenbai Zhu , Haiyan Zhang , Youling Yue , Lei Qian

The Large Area Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) is a dedicated spectroscopic survey telescope being built in China, with an effective aperture of 4 meters and equiped with 4000 fibers. Using the LAMOST telescope, one could make…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-09 Xin Wang , Xuelei Chen , Zheng Zheng , Fengquan Wu , Pengjie Zhang , Yongheng Zhao

We use two independent methods to forecast the dark energy measurements achievable by combining future galaxy redshift surveys based on the radio HI emission line with Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data from the {\sl Planck} satellite.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Filipe B. Abdalla , Chris Blake , Steve Rawlings

We report the first direct detection of the cosmological power spectrum using the intensity signal from 21-cm emission of neutral hydrogen (HI), derived from interferometric observations with the L-band receivers of the new MeerKAT radio…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-31 Sourabh Paul , Mario G. Santos , Zhaoting Chen , Laura Wolz

Future galaxy surveys will map the galaxy distribution in the redshift interval $0.5<z<2$ using near-infrared cameras and spectrographs. The primary science goal of such surveys is to constrain the nature of the dark energy by measuring the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Alvaro Orsi , C. M. Baugh , C. G. Lacey , A. Cimatti , Y. Wang , G. Zamorani

We explore the feasibility of HI galaxy redshift surveys with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) and its proposed Core Array interferometry. Using semi-analytical simulations, we compare the performance of the FAST…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-25 Zhenglong Li , Diyang Liu , Chengliang Xu , Yichao Li , Xin Zhang

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) is by far the largest telescope of any kind ever built. FAST produced its first light in September 2016 and it is now under commissioning, with normal operation to commence in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-15 Di Li , John M. Dickey , Shu Liu

The H-alpha line emission is an important probe for a number of fundamental quantities in galaxies, including their number density, star formation rate (SFR) and overall gas content. A new generation of low-resolution intensity mapping…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-15 Marta B. Silva , Saleem Zaroubi , Robin Kooistra , Asantha Cooray

This study investigates the estimation of the neutral hydrogen (HI) mass function (HIMF) using a Bayesian stacking approach with simulated data for the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) HI intensity mapping (HIIM)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Jiaxin Wang , Yichao Li , Hengxing Pan , Furen Deng , Diyang Liu , Wenxiu Yang , Wenkai Hu , Yougang Wang , Xin Zhang , Xuelei Chen

This study presents results on detecting neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) 21cm absorption in the spectrum of PKS1413+135 at redshift $z=0.24670041$. The observation was conducted by FAST, with a spectral resolution of 10 Hz, using 10 minutes of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-08 Jiangang Kang , Chang-Zhi Lu , TongJie Zhang , Ming Zhu

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

Observations of Interplanetary Scintillation (IPS) are an efficient remote-sensing method to study the solar wind and inner heliosphere. From 2016 to 2018, some distinctive observations of IPS sources like 3C 286 and 3C 279 were…

Space Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Li-Jia Liu , Bo Peng , Lei Yu , Ye-Zhao Yu , Ji-Guang Lu , Bin Liu , O. Chang , M. M. Bisi , FAST Collaboration

Using the first data release of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) All-Sky HI survey (FASHI), we compile a catalogue of 70 dark galaxy candidates (DGCs) within 50 Mpc. We select DGCs without an identified…

Intensity mapping has emerged as a promising tool to probe the three-dimensional structure of the universe. The traditional approach of galaxy redshift surveys is based on individual galaxy detection, typically performed by thresholding and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-11 Yun-Ting Cheng , Roland de Putter , Tzu-Ching Chang , Olivier Dore

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

Large Scale Structures (LSS) in the universe can be traced using the neutral atomic hydrogen HI through its 21cm emission. Such a 3D matter distribution map can be used to test the Cosmological model and to constrain the Dark Energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 R. Ansari , J. E. Campagne , P. Colom , J. M. Le Goff , C. Magneville , J. M. Martin , M. Moniez , J. Rich , C. Yèche

The coherent image distortions induced by weak gravitational lensing can be used to measure the power spectrum of density inhomogeneities in the universe. We present our on-going effort to detect this effect with the FIRST radio survey,…

HII regions made of gas ionized by radiations from young massive stars, are widely distributed in the Milky Way. They are tracers for star formation, and their distributions are correlated with the Galactic spiral structure. Radio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-03 Chuan-Peng Zhang , Jin-Long Xu , Guang-Xing Li , Li-Gang Hou , Nai-Ping Yu , Peng Jiang

Galaxy redshift surveys using optical telescopes have, in combination with other cosmological probes, enabled precision measurements of the nature of dark energy. We show that radio telescopes are rapidly becoming competitive with optical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-07 Alan R. Duffy

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) passed national acceptance and is taking pilot cycle of 'Shared-Risk' observations. The 19-beam receiver covering 1.05-1.45 GHz was used for most of these observations. The…