The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) Project

Abstract

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) is a Chinese mega-science project funded by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) of the People's Republic of China. The National Astronomical Observatories of China (NAOC) is in charge of its construction and subsequent operation. Upon its expected completion in September 2016, FAST will surpass the 300-meter Arecibo Telescope and the 100-meter Green Bank Telescope in terms of absolute sensitivity in the 70 MHz to 3 GHz bands. In this paper, we report on the project, its current status, the key science goals, and plans for early science.

14 pages, 2 figuers, proceedings of URSI AT-RASC 2015, published in Radio Science

References in corpus (2)

• The Five-Hundred-Meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) Project
• The Parkes multibeam pulsar survey: VI. Discovery and timing of 142 pulsars and a Galactic population analysis

Cited by in corpus (26)

• Precise radio astrometry and new developments for the next generation of instruments
• Closing a spontaneous-scalarization window with binary pulsars
• CRAFTS for Fast Radio Bursts Extending the dispersion-fluence relation with new FRBs detected by FAST
• WALLABY Early Science - III. An HI Study of the Spiral Galaxy NGC 1566
• Axion Production in Pulsar Magnetosphere Gaps
• FAST discovery of an extremely radio-faint millisecond pulsar from the Fermi-LAT unassociated source 3FGL J0318.1+0252
• An in-depth investigation of 11 pulsars discovered by FAST
• FAST early pulsar discoveries: Effelsberg follow-up
• Drift Rates of Narrowband Signals in Long-term SETI Observations for Exoplanets
• Sensitive Multi-beam Targeted SETI Observations towards 33 Exoplanet Systems with FAST
• The M31/M33 tidal interaction: A hydrodynamic simulation of the extended gas distribution
• A LOFAR radio search for single and periodic pulses from M31
• A pilot search for extragalactic OH absorption with FAST
• Multibeam Blind Search of Targeted SETI Observations toward 33 Exoplanet Systems with FAST
• A Deep Targeted Search for Fast Radio Bursts from the Sites of Low-Redshift Short Gamma-Ray Bursts
• Predictions for the FAST telescope's CRAFTS Extra-Galactic HI Survey
• The most sensitive SETI observations toward Barnard's star with FAST
• Multi-year Polarimetric Monitoring of Four CHIME-Discovered Repeating Fast Radio Bursts with FAST
• Multibeam SETI Observations toward Nearby M dwarfs with FAST
• Pebble accretion in self-gravitating protostellar discs
• The FAST-SETI Milky Way Globular Cluster Survey I: A Pilot Multibeam On-the-Fly Search of Five Globular Clusters at L-Band
• A self-supervised, physics-aware, Bayesian neural network architecture for modelling galaxy emission-line kinematics
• Dual-Backend Multibeam Position Switching Targeted SETI Observations toward Nearby Active Planet-Hosting Systems with FAST
• An Improved Machine Learning Approach for Radio Frequency Interference Mitigation in FAST-SETI Survey Archival Data
• Narrowband Radio Technosignature Search toward 3I/ATLAS with FAST
• Probing the properties of the pulsar wind via studying the dispersive effects in the pulses from the pulsar companion in a double neutron-star binary system