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As first data release of a pilot extragalactic HI survey with Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST),we extracted 544 extragalaxies from three-dimensional(3D) spectral data to perform interactive searching and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-08 Jiangang Kang , Ming Zhu , Mei Ai , Haiyang Yu , Chun Sun

We have realised a simple prototype system to perform searches for short timescale optical transients, utilising the novel drift scan imaging technique described by Tingay (2020). We used two coordinated and aligned cameras, with an overlap…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-27 S. J. Tingay , W. Joubert

This paper describes a programme to map large-scale cosmic structures on the largest possible scales by using the Five hundred metre Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) to make a 21 cm (red-shifted) intensity map of the sky for the range…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 George F. Smoot , Ivan Debono

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) is the most sensitive ground-based, single-dish radio telescope on Earth. However, the original HI spectra produced by FAST are affected by standing waves. To maximize the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 De-Jian Liu , Ye Xu , Ying-Jie Li , Ze-Hao Lin , Shuai-Bo Bian , Chao-Jie Hao

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) emit broad band radio wave radiation that may, in rare cases, encode atomic hydrogen (HI) absorption signals produced as they traverse the interstellar medium of their host galaxies. Combining such signals with high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-12 Hugh Roxburgh , Marcin Glowacki , Apurba Bera , Clancy James

It is shown that 21 cm intensity mapping could be used in the near term to make cosmologically useful measurements. Large scale structure could be detected using existing radio telescopes, or using prototypes for dedicated redshift survey…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-13 Kiyoshi Wesley Masui , Patrick McDonald , Ue-Li Pen

The Spitzer Space Telescope (formerly SIRTF) extragalactic First-Look Survey covered about 5 square degrees centered on J2000 17:18 +59:30 in order to characterize the infrared sky with high sensitivity. We used the 100-m Green Bank…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Felix J. Lockman , J. J. Condon

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…

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 MeerKAT Large Area Synoptic Survey (MeerKLASS) collaboration has acquired multiple passes of L-band (856-1712 MHz) scanning observations over a 268 deg$^2$ sky region. This scanning enables efficient, large-area sky surveys by…

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) has started the Commensal Radio Astronomy FasT Survey (CRAFTS). In this paper, we use the technical parameters of FAST derived from commissioning observations to simulate the…

We report results from a neutral hydrogen (HI) intensity mapping survey conducted with a Phased Array Feed (PAF) on the Parkes telescope. The survey was designed to cover ~ 380 deg^2 over the redshift range 0.3 < z < 1 (a volume of ~ 1.5…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-31 Lincheng Li , Lister Staveley-Smith , Jonghwan Rhee

Precise cosmological measurements are essential for understanding the evolution of the universe and the nature of dark energy. The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), the most sensitive single-dish radio telescope, has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-23 Jun-Da Pan , Peng-Ju Wu , Guo-Hong Du , Yichao Li , Xin Zhang

The distribution of cosmological neutral hydrogen will provide a new window into the large-scale structure of the Universe with the next generation of radio telescopes and surveys. The observation of this material, through 21cm line…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-28 Jacobo Asorey , David Parkinson , Feng Shi , Yong-Seon Song , Kyungjin Ahn , Juhan Kim , Jian Yao , Le Zhang , Shifan Zuo

The detection of redshifted hyperfine line of neutral hydrogen (HI) is the most promising probe of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). We report an analysis of 55 hours of Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) Phase II drift scan EoR data. The data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-21 Akash Kumar Patwa , Shiv Sethi , K. S. Dwarakanath

We present an extragalactic HI 21-cm absorption lines catalog from a blind search at z $\leqslant$ 0.35, using drift-scan data collected in 1325.6 hours by the ongoing Commensal Radio Astronomy FasT Survey (CRAFTS) and FAST All Sky HI…

Neutral hydrogen (HI) is the fundamental component of the interstellar medium. The Galactic Plane Pulsar Snapshot (GPPS) survey is designed for hunting pulsars by using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-01 Tao Hong , J. L. Han , L. G. Hou , X. Y. Gao , Chen Wang , Tao Wang

We investigate the possibility of probing the large scale structure in the universe at large redshifts by studying fluctuations in the redshifted 1420 MHz emission from the neutral hydrogen (HI) at early epochs. The neutral hydrogen content…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Somnath Bharadwaj , Shiv K. Sethi