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astro-ph.IM2018★ 11 cited

Exoplanets in the Antarctic Sky. I. The First Data Release of AST3-II (CHESPA) and New Found Variables within the Southern CVZ of TESS

Hui Zhang, Zhouyi Yu, Ensi Liang +37

Located at Dome A, the highest point of the Antarctic plateau, the Chinese Kunlun station is considered to be one of the best ground-based photometric sites because of its extremel…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 356 cited

The Fifteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release of MaNGA Derived Quantities, Data Visualization Tools and Stellar Library

D. S. Aguado, Romina Ahumada, Andres Almeida +230

Twenty years have passed since first light for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Here, we release data taken by the fourth phase of SDSS (SDSS-IV) across its first three years o…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 128 cited

SDSS-IV MaStar -- A Large and Comprehensive Empirical Stellar Spectral Library: First Release

Renbin Yan, Yanping Chen, Daniel Lazarz +45

We present the first release of the MaNGA Stellar Library (MaStar), which is a large, well-calibrated, high-quality empirical library covering the wavelength range of 3,622-10,354A…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 6 cited

Pre-selection of the Candidate Fields for Deep Imaging of the Epoch of Reionization with SKA1-Low

Qian Zheng, Xiang-Ping Wu, Quan Guo +4

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be the first low-frequency instrument with the capability to directly image the structures of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). Indeed, deep im…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 23 cited

Analysis of Stellar Spectra from LAMOST DR5 with Generative Spectrum Networks

Wang Rui, Luo A-li, Zhang Shuo +9

In this study, the fundamental stellar atmospheric parameters (Teff, log g, [Fe/H] and [α/Fe]) were derived for low-resolution spectroscopy from LAMOST DR5 with Generative Spectrum…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 3 cited

Harmonic Summing Improves Pulsar Detection Sensitivity: A Probability Analysis

Meng Yu

Practical application of the harmonic summing technique in the power-spectrum analysis for searching pulsars has exhibited the technique's effectiveness. In this paper, theoretical…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 43 cited

Distances of Galactic Supernova Remnants Using Red Clump Stars

S. S. Shan, H. Zhu, W. W. Tian +4

We carry out a project to independently measure the distances of supernova remnants (SNRs) in the first quadrant of the Galaxy. In this project, red clump (RC) stars are used as st…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 22 cited

Radio Morphing: towards a fast computation of the radio signal from air showers

Anne Zilles, Olivier Martineau-Huynh, Kumiko Kotera +6

Over the last years, radio detection has matured to become a competitive method for the detection of air showers. Arrays of thousands of antennas are now envisioned for the detecti…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 22 cited

Meteorological data from KLAWS-2G for an astronomical site survey of Dome A, Antarctica

Yi Hu, Keliang Hu, Zhaohui Shang +8

We present an analysis of meteorological data from the second generation of the Kunlun Automated Weather Station (KLAWS-2G) at Dome A, Antarctica during 2015 and 2016. We find that…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 11 cited

Verifying and Reporting Fast Radio Bursts

Griffin Foster, Aris Karastergiou, Marisa Geyer +6

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are a class of short-duration transients at radio wavelengths with inferred astrophysical origin. The prototypical FRB is a broadband signal that occurs ov…

astro-ph.IM2018

Visible astro-comb filtered by a passively-stabilized Fabry-Perot cavity

Yuxuan Ma, Fei Meng, Yizhou Liu +4

We demonstrate a compact 29.3 GHz visible astro-comb covering the spectrum from 560nm to 700nm. A 837 MHz Yb:fiber laser frequency comb phase locked to a Rb clock served as the see…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 5 cited

Prospects of Probing the Radio Emission of Lunar UHECRv Events

Amin Aminaei, Linjie Chen, Hamid R. Pourshaghaghi +4

Radio detection of Ultra High Energetic Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos (UHECRv) which hit the Moon has been investigated in recent years. In preparation for near-future lunar science mi…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 22 cited

Studies of Turbulence Dissipation in Taurus Molecular Cloud with Core Velocity Dispersion (CVD)

Lei Qian, Di Li, Yang Gao +2

Turbulence dissipation is an important process affecting the energy balance in molecular clouds, the birth place of stars. Previously, the rate of turbulence dissipation is often e…

astro-ph.IM2018

Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE): a preliminary design of multi-object high resolution spectrograph

Kai Zhang, Yifei Zhou, Zhen Tang +8

The Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE) project will transform the CFHT 3.6m optical telescope to a 10m class dedicated multi-object spectroscopic facility, with an ability to me…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 13 cited

An Eigenvector-based Method of Radio Array Calibration and Its Application to the Tianlai Cylinder Pathfinder

Shifan Zuo, Ue-Li Pen, Fengquan Wu +4

We propose an eigenvector-based formalism for the calibration of radio interferometer arrays. In the presence of a strong dominant point source, the complex gains of the array can…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 2 cited

Decompose temporal variations of pulsar dispersion measures

P. F. Wang, J. L. Han

Pulsar dispersion measure (DM) accounts for the total electron content between a pulsar and us. High-precision observations for projects of pulsar timing arrays show temporal DM va…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 5 cited

Progress in the Construction and Testing of the Tianlai Radio Interferometers

Santanu Das, Christopher J. Anderson, Reza Ansari +44

The Tianlai Pathfinder is designed to demonstrate the feasibility of using a wide field of view radio interferometers to map the density of neutral hydrogen in the Universe after t…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 32 cited

The SAGE Photometric Sky Survey: Technical Description

Jie Zheng, Gang Zhao, Wei Wang +4

To investigate in more details of Stellar Abundance and Galactic Evolution (SAGE) and in a huge sample, we are performing a northern sky photometric survey named SAGES with the SAG…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 16 cited

Photometric calibration for the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey and Mayall z-band Legacy Survey

Zhimin Zhou, Xu Zhou, Hu Zou +14

We present the photometric calibration of the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey (BASS) and Mayall z-band Legacy Survey (MzLS), which are two of the three wide-field optical legacy imaging…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 10 cited

Portable Adaptive Optics for Exoplanet Imaging

Yongtian Zhu, Jiangpei Dou, Xi Zhang +3

The Portable Adaptive Optics (PAO) is a low-cost and compact system, designed for 4-meter class telescopes that have no Adaptive Optics (AO), because of the physical space limitati…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 18 cited

An imaging algorithm for a lunar orbit interferometer array

Qizhi Huang, Shijie Sun, Shifan Zuo +5

Radio astronomical observation below 30 MHz is hampered by the refraction and absorption of the ionosphere, and the radio frequency interference (RFI), so far high angular resoluti…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 14 cited

A FPGA-based Fast Converging Digital Adaptive Filter for Real-time RFI Mitigation on Ground Based Radio Telescopes

R. Finger, F. Curotto, R. Fuentes +3

Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) is a growing concern in the radio astronomy community. Single-dish telescopes are particularly susceptible to RFI. Several methods have been deve…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 24 cited

The First Release of the AST3-1 Point Source Catalogue from Dome A, Antarctica

Bin Ma, Zhaohui Shang, Yi Hu +35

The three Antarctic Survey Telescopes (AST3) aim to carry out time domain imaging survey at Dome A, Antarctica. The first of the three telescopes (AST3-1) was successfully deployed…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 8 cited

Investigating the Efficiency of the Beijing Faint Object Spectrograph and Camera (BFOSC) of the Xinglong 2.16-m Reflector

Yong Zhao, Zhou Fan, Juanjuan Ren +7

The Beijing Faint Object Spectrograph and Camera (BFOSC) is one of the most important instruments of the 2.16-m telescope of the Xinglong Observatory. Every year there are ~ 20 SCI…