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Cost effective, new antenna technology is required to build the large collecting area being planned for the next generation of radio telescopes. The Large Adaptive Reflector (LAR) is a novel concept being developed in Canada to meet this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. M. Dougherty , P. E. Dewdney , A. Gray , A. R. Taylor

We describe the scientific goals and survey design of the First Large Absorption Survey in HI (FLASH), a wide field survey for 21-cm line absorption in neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) at intermediate cosmological redshifts. FLASH will be…

The DRAO Synthesis Telescope (ST) is a forefront telescope for imaging large-scale neutral hydrogen and polarized radio continuum emission at arcminute resolution. Equipped for observations at 1420 and 408 MHz, the ST completed the Canadian…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-20 T. L. Landecker , L. Belostotski , J. C. Brown , B. R. Carlson , X. Du , T. Foster , A. S. Hill , T. Johnson , R. Kothes , M. Rupen , S. Safi-Harb , K. Vanderlinde , B. G. Veidt , J. L. West

LARS is an Absolute Reference Spectrograph designed for ultra-precise solar observations. The high-resolution echelle spectrograph of the Vacuum Tower Telescope is supported by a state-of-the-art laser frequency comb to calibrate the solar…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-01 J. Loehner-Boettcher , W. Schmidt , H. -P. Doerr , T. Kentischer , T. Steinmetz , R. A. Probst , R. Holzwarth

The Large Array Survey Telescope (LAST) is designed to survey the variable and transient sky at high temporal cadence. The array is comprised of 48 F/2.2 telescopes of 27.9cm aperture, coupled to full-frame backside-illuminated cooled CMOS…

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

LOFAR, the Low Frequency Array, is a large radio telescope consisting of approximately 100 soccer-field sized antenna stations spread over a region of 400 km in diameter. It will operate at frequencies from ~10 to 240 MHz, with a resolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. J. A. Rottgering

LOFAR, the Low Frequency Array, is a large radio telescope consisting about 100 soccer field sized antenna stations spread over a region of 400 km in diameter. It will operate in the frequency range from ~10 to 240 MHz, with a resolution at…

LOFAR, the Low-Frequency Array, is a powerful new radio telescope operating between 10 and 240 MHz. LOFAR allows detailed sensitive high-resolution studies of the low-frequency radio sky. At the same time LOFAR also provides excellent short…

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

To continue the unparalleled success of the Very Large Array (VLA) for radio astronomy, the facility is currently being converted to become the 'Expanded VLA' (EVLA). The EVLA will radically improve the VLA in order to cover the full…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Juergen Ott , Rick Perley , Michael Rupen , the EVLA team

We present radio and infrared observations of 4 hyper-compact HII regions and 4 ultra-compact HII regions in the southern Galactic plane. These objects were selected from a blind survey for UCHII regions using data from two new radio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Tara Murphy , Martin Cohen , Ronald D. Ekers , Anne J. Green , Robin Wark , Vanessa Moss

LOFAR (Low Frequency Array) is an innovative radio telescope optimized for the frequency range 30-240 MHz. The telescope is realized as a phased aperture array without any moving parts. Digital beam forming allows the telescope to point to…

Radio astronomy is entering the era of large surveys. This paper describes the plans for wide surveys with the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) and their synergy with large surveys at higher frequencies (in particular in the 1-2 GHz band) that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 R. Morganti , H. Rottgering , I. Snellen , G. Miley , P. Barthel , P. Best , M. Bruggen , G. Brunetti , K. Chyzy , J. Conway , M. Jarvis , M. Lehnert

The Large Zenith Telescope Survey whose construction is almost completed (first light expected in spring 2002) near Vancouver (Canada) is designed to observed a total strip of ~17' x 120 deg in 40 medium-band filters spanning 4000-10000 A.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Remi A. Cabanac , Paul Hickson , Valerie de Lapparent

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) is an experiment to measure the signature of a gravita-tional-wave background from inflation in the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). CLASS is a multi-frequency array…

The Cosmic Lens All-Sky Survey (CLASS) is an international collaborative program which has obtained high-resolution radio images of over 10000 flat-spectrum radio sources in order to create the largest and best studied statistical sample of…

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) is a four telescope array designed to characterize relic primordial gravitational waves from inflation and the optical depth to reionization through a measurement of the polarized cosmic…

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