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astro-ph.IM2020★ 7 cited

HCGrid: A Convolution-based Gridding Framework for RadioAstronomy in Hybrid Computing Environments

Hao Wang, Ce Yu, Bo Zhang +2

Gridding operation, which is to map non-uniform data samples onto a uniformly distributedgrid, is one of the key steps in radio astronomical data reduction process. One of the main…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 36 cited

The Tsinghua University-Ma Huateng Telescopes for Survey: Overview and Performance of the System

Ji-Cheng Zhang, Xiao-Feng Wang, Jun Mo +16

Over the past decade, time-domain astronomy in optical bands has developed rapidly with the operations of some wide-field survey facilities. However, most of these surveys are cond…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 6 cited

Adapting Active Reflector Technology for greater sensitivity and sky-coverage in FAST-like Telescopes

Jian-Ling Li, Bo Peng, Cheng-Jin Jin +5

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), the largest single dish radio telescope in the world, has implemented an innovative technology for its huge reflec…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 1 cited

Mapping Diffuse Emission in Lyman UV band

Li Ji, Zheng Lou, Jinlong Zhang +38

The CAFE (Census of warm-hot intergalactic medium, Accretion, and Feedback Explorer) and LyRIC (Lyman UV Radiation from Interstellar medium and Circum-galactic medium) have been pr…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 8 cited

Ground Experiments and Performance Evaluation of the Low-Frequency Radio Spectrometer Onboard the Lander of Chang'e-4 Mission

Xinying Zhu, Yan Su, Yicai Ji +6

The Low-Frequency Radio Spectrometer (LFRS) is a scientific payload onboard the Chang'e-4 lunar lander launched in December 2018. The LFRS provides in-situ measurements of the low-…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 3 cited

Atomic transitions for adaptive optics

Rui Yang, Joschua Hellemeier, Paul Hickson

This paper reviews atoms and ions in the upper atmosphere, including the mesospheric metals Na, Fe, Mg, Si, Ca, K and also non-metallic species N, N, O, H, consider…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 87 cited

FAST: Its Scientific Achievements and Prospects

Lei Qian, Rui Yao, Jinghai Sun +3

FAST is the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world. The characteristics of FAST are presented and analyzed in the context of the parameter space to show how FAST science…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 22 cited

Data Processing Pipeline For Tianlai Experiment

Shifan Zuo, Jixia Li, Yichao Li +7

The Tianlai project is a 21cm intensity mapping experiment aimed at detecting dark energy by measuring the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) features in the large scale structure p…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 19 cited

Measuring and characterizing the line profile of HARPS with a laser frequency comb

Fei Zhao, G. Lo Curto, L. Pasquini +13

Aims. We study the 2D spectral line profile of HARPS (High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher), measuring its variation with position across the detector and with changing li…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 54 cited

The Tianlai Dish Pathfinder Array: design, operation and performance of a prototype transit radio interferometer

Fengquan Wu, Jixia Li, Shifan Zuo +34

The Tianlai Dish Pathfinder Array is a radio interferometer designed to test techniques for 21~cm intensity mapping in the post-reionization universe as a means for measuring large…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 3 cited

Estimating Atmospheric Parameters of DA White Dwarf Stars with Deep Learning

Yong Yang, Jingkun Zhao, Jiajun Zhang +2

The determination of atmospheric parameters of white dwarf stars (WDs) is crucial for researches on them. Traditional methodology is to fit the model spectra to observed absorption…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 15 cited

Astronomy from Dome A in Antarctica

Zhaohui Shang

Dome A in Antarctica has been demonstrated to be the best site on earth for optical, infrared, and terahertz astronomical observations by more and more evidence, such as excellent…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 1 cited

An Agile Very Low Frequency Radio Spectrum Explorer

Linjie Chen, Yihua Yan, Qiuxiang Fan +2

The very low frequency (VLF) regime below 30 MHz in the electromagnetic spectrum has presently drawing global attentions in radio astronomical research due to its potentially signi…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 17 cited

Cloud Cover and Aurora Contamination at Dome A in 2017 from KLCAM

Xu Yang, Zhaohui Shang, Keliang Hu +6

Dome A in Antarctica has many characteristics that make it an excellent site for astronomical observations, from the optical to the terahertz. Quantitative site testing is still ne…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 53 cited

Square Kilometre Array Science Data Challenge 1: analysis and results

A. Bonaldi, T. An, M. Bruggen +42

As the largest radio telescope in the world, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will lead the next generation of radio astronomy. The feats of engineering required to construct the t…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 13 cited

GeneticKNN: A Weighted KNN Approach Supported by Genetic Algorithm for Photometric Redshift Estimation of Quasars

Bo Han, Li-Na Qiao, Jing-Lin Chen +3

We combine K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) with genetic algorithm (GA) for photometric redshift estimation of quasars, short for GeneticKNN, which is a weighted KNN approach supported by…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 7 cited

GWOPS: A VO-technology Driven Tool to Search for the Electromagnetic Counterpart of Gravitational Wave Event

Yunfei Xu, Dong Xu, Chenzhou Cui +11

The search and follow-up observation of electromagnetic (EM) counterparts of gravitational waves (GW) is a current hot topic of GW cosmology. Due to the limitation of the accuracy…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 19 cited

The Wide-field Photometric System of the Nanshan One-meter Telescope

Chunhai Bai, Guojie Feng, Xuan Zhang +9

The Nanshan One-meter Wide-field Telescope (NOWT) is a prime focus system located at Nanshan Station of Xinjiang Astronomical Observatories (XAO). The field of view(FOV) was design…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 32 cited

Radio Frequency Interference Mitigation based on the ArPLS and SumThreshold Method

Qingguo Zeng, Xue Chen, Xiangru Li +4

As radio telescopes become sensitive, radio frequency interference (RFI) is more and more serious for interesting signals of radio astronomy. There exist demands for developing an…

astro-ph.IM2020

NBFTP: A Dedicated Data Transfer System for Remote Astronomical Observation at Dome A

Siyuan Huang, Ce Yu, Chao Sun +5

Dome A, Antarctica has been thought to be one of the best astronomical sites on the earth since decades ago. From it was first visited by astronomers in 2008, dozens of facilities…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 17 cited

An approximately analytical solution method for the cable-driven parallel robot in FAST

Jia-Ning Yin, Peng Jiang, Rui Yao

FAST is the largest single-dish aperture telescope with a cable-driven parallel robot introduced to achieve the highest sensitivity in the world. However, to realize the high-preci…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 8 cited

Optimal Probabilistic Catalogue Matching for Radio Sources

Dongwei Fan, Tamás Budavári, Ray P. Norris +1

Cross-matching catalogues from radio surveys to catalogues of sources at other wavelengths is extremely hard, because radio sources are often extended, often consist of several spa…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 57 cited

Discovering the Sky at the Longest wavelengths with a lunar orbit array

Xuelei Chen, Jingye Yan, Li Deng +4

Due to ionosphere absorption and the interference by natural and artificial radio emissions, astronomical observation from the ground becomes very difficult at the wavelengths of d…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 93 cited

Night-time measurements of astronomical seeing at Dome A in Antarctica

Bin Ma, Zhaohui Shang, Yi Hu +6

Seeing, the angular size of stellar images blurred by atmospheric turbulence, is a critical parameter used to assess the quality of astronomical sites. Median values at the best mi…