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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

We present the early science results from a blind search of the extragalactic HI 21-cm absorption lines at z $\leqslant$ 0.09 with the drift-scan observation of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). We carried…

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

We present the calibration procedures and validation of source measurement with the data of the Commensal Radio Astronomy FAST Survey (CRAFTS) for \HI intensity mapping by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST).…

Having achieved 'first-light' right before the opening ceremony on September 25, 2016, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) is being busily commissioned. Its innovative design requires ~1000 points to be measured…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-09 Di Li , Pei Wang , Lei Qian , Marko Krco , Alex Dunning , Peng Jiang , Youling Yue , Chenjin Jin , Yan Zhu , Zhichen Pan , Rendong Nan

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…

Neutral hydrogen (HI) intensity mapping (IM) presents great promise for future cosmological large-scale structure surveys. However, a major challenge for HIIM cosmological studies is to accurately subtract the foreground contamination. An…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-10 Xinyang Zhao , Yichao Li , Wenxiu Yang , Furen Deng , Yougang Wang , Fengquan Wu , Xin Wang , Xiaohui Sun , Xin Zhang , Xuelei Chen

We investigate the 1/f noise of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) receiver system using drift-scan data from an intensity mapping pilot survey. All the 19 beams have 1/f fluctuations with similar structures. Both…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-13 Wenkai Hu , Yichao Li , Yougang Wang , Fengquan Wu , Bo Zhang , Ming Zhu , Shifan Zuo , Guilaine Lagache , Yinzhe Ma , Mario G. Santos , Xuelei Chen

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope(FAST) is expected to complete its commissioning in 2019. FAST will soon begin the Commensal Radio Astronomy FasT Survey(CRAFTS), a novel and unprecedented commensal drift scan survey…

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

We have used the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) to make a blind ultra-deep survey for neutral hydrogen (HI). We present the complete results from the first of six fields (FUDS0). This observation of 95 hours…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-11 Hongwei Xi , Bo Peng , Lister Staveley-Smith , Bi-Qing For , Bin Liu , Dejian Ding

We present a deep HI survey at L-band conducted with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) over the COSMOS field. This survey is strategically designed to overlap with the MIGHTEE COSMOS field, aiming to combine…

The Hundred-deg$^2$ HI Deep (HD$^2$) survey carried out with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) is planned to map a contiguous region within the DESI DR1 footprint, achieving an effective integration time of 20…

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

Observations of neutral hydrogen can provide a wealth of information about the distribution and kinematics of galaxies. To detect HI beyond the ionisation edge of galaxy disks, column density sensitivities have to be achieved that probe the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 A. Popping , R. Braun

The 21-cm intensity mapping (IM) of neutral hydrogen (HI) is a promising tool to probe the large-scale structures. Sky maps of 21-cm intensities can be highly contaminated by different foregrounds, such as Galactic synchrotron radiation,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-01 Elimboto Yohana , Yin-Zhe Ma , Di Li , Xuelei Chen , Wei-Ming Dai

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

The cross-correlation of optical galaxies with the neutral hydrogen (HI) radiation intensity can enhance the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the HI intensity measurement. In this paper, we investigate the cross-correlation of the galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Furen Deng , Yan Gong , Yougang Wang , Shuting Dong , Ye Cao , Xuelei Chen

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

The FAST All Sky HI survey (FASHI) was designed to cover the entire sky observable by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), spanning approximately 22000 square degrees of declination between -14 deg and +66 deg,…

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