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astro-ph.IM2012★ 156 cited

The Tianlai project: a 21cm cosmology experiment

Xuelei Chen

In my talk at the 2nd Galileo-Xu Meeting, I presented several different topics in 21cm cosmology for which I have done research. These includes the 21cm signature of the first star…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 7 cited

FAST low frequency pulsar survey

Youling Yue, Di Li, Rendong Nan

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) is under construction and will be commissioned in September 2016. A low frequency 7-beam receiver working around 40…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 509 cited

The Parkes Pulsar Timing Array Project

R. N. Manchester, G. Hobbs, M. Bailes +28

A "pulsar timing array" (PTA), in which observations of a large sample of pulsars spread across the celestial sphere are combined, allows investigation of "global" phenomena such a…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 24 cited

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope Project and its Early Science Opportunities

Di Li, Rendong Nan, Zhichen Pan

The National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Science (NAOC), has started building the largest antenna in the world. Known as FAST, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Sp…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 115 cited

Atmospheric extinction properties above Mauna Kea from the Nearby Supernova Factory spectro-photometric data set

C. Buton, Y. Copin, G. Aldering +30

We present a new atmospheric extinction curve for Mauna Kea spanning 3200--9700 Å. It is the most comprehensive to date, being based on some 4285 standard star spectra obtained on…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 1.5k cited

The Ninth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

III Collaboration, Christopher P. Ahn, Rachael Alexandroff +224

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) presents the first spectroscopic data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). This ninth data release (DR9) of the SDSS…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 5 cited

Characterizing the red optical sky background fluctuations from narrow-band imaging

M. Puech, H. Flores, Y. B. Yang +4

The detection and characterization of the physical properties of very distant galaxies will be one the prominent science case of all future Extremely Large Telescopes, including th…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 19 cited

The LEGUE Input Catalogue for Dark Night Observing in the LAMOST Pilot Survey

Fan Yang, Jeffrey L. Carlin, Chao Liu +14

We outline the design of the dark nights portion of the LAMOST Pilot Survey, which began observations in October 2011. In particular, we focus on Milky Way stellar candidates that…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 20 cited

The LEGUE High Latitude Bright Survey Design for the LAMOST Pilot Survey

Yueyang Zhang, Jeffrey L. Carlin, Fan Yang +14

We describe the footprint and input catalog for bright nights in the LAMOST Pilot Survey, which began in October 2011. Targets are selected from two stripes in the north and south…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 29 cited

The site conditions of the Guo Shou Jing Telescope

Song Yao, Chao Liu, Haotong Zhang +18

The weather at Xinglong Observing Station, where the Guo Shou Jing Telescope (GSJT) is located, is strongly affected by the monsoon climate in north-east China. The LAMOST survey s…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 37 cited

An Algorithm for Preferential Selection of Spectroscopic Targets in LEGUE

Jeffrey L. Carlin, Sebastien Lepine, Heidi Jo Newberg +22

We describe a general target selection algorithm that is applicable to any survey in which the number of available candidates is much larger than the number of objects to be observ…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 75 cited

The Photometric System of Tsinghua-NAOC 80-cm Telescope at NAOC Xinglong Observatory

Fang Huang, Jun-Zheng Li, Xiao-Feng Wang +5

Tsinghua-NAOC (National Astronomical Observatories of China) Telescope (hereafter, TNT) is an 80-cm Cassegrain reflecting telescope located at Xinglong bservatory of NAOC, with mai…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 99 cited

Application of the Gaussian mixture model in pulsar astronomy -- pulsar classification and candidates ranking for {\it Fermi} 2FGL catalog

K. J. Lee, L. Guillemot, Y. L. Yue +2

Machine learning, algorithms to extract empirical knowledge from data, can be used to classify data, which is one of the most common tasks in observational astronomy. In this paper…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 36 cited

Selecting Quasar Candidates by a SVM Classification System

Nanbo Peng, Yanxia Zhang, Yongheng Zhao +1

We develop and demonstrate a classification system constituted by several Support Vector Machines (SVM) classifiers, which can be applied to select quasar candidates from large sky…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 6 cited

IPS Observation System for Miyun 50m Radio Telescope and Its Acceptance Observation

Xin-Ying Zhu, Xi-Zhen Zhang, Hong-Bo Zhang +2

Ground-based observation of Interplanetary Scintillation(IPS) is an important approach of monitoring solar wind. A ground-based IPS observation system is newly implemented on 50m r…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 7 cited

Research of the active reflector antenna using laser angle metrology system

Yong Zhang, Jie Zhang, Dehua Yang +3

Active reflector is one of the key technologies for constructing large telescopes, especially for the millimeter/sub-millimeter radio telescopes. This article introduces a new effi…

astro-ph.IM2012

Low frequency seeing and solar diameter measurements

Costantino Sigismondi

The action of the atmospheric seeing is blurring, image stretching and image motion. This happens even to the image of the Sun which is more than half degree wide. Low frequency se…