Planning the scientific applications of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope

Abstract

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) is by far the largest telescope of any kind ever built. FAST produced its first light in September 2016 and it is now under commissioning, with normal operation to commence in late 2019. During testing and early science operation, FAST has started making astronomical discoveries, particularly pulsars of various kinds, including millisecond pulsars, binaries, gamma-ray pulsars, etc. The papers in this mini-volume propose ambitious observational projects to advance our knowledge of astronomy, astrophysics and fundamental physics in many ways. Although it may take FAST many years to achieve all the goals explained in these papers, taken together they define a powerful strategic vision for the next decade.

arXiv comment2 pages, A preface to the RAA mini-volume on FAST science potential, topics including fundamental constants, cosmic rays, exoplanets, gravitational radiation, the interstellar medium, and masers

References in corpus (14)

• LOFAR: The LOw-Frequency ARray
• The Murchison Widefield Array: the Square Kilometre Array Precursor at low radio frequencies
• The Expanded Very Large Array -- a New Telescope for New Science
• Considerations for a Multi-beam Multi-purpose Survey with FAST
• Science With The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder
• Revival of the magnetar PSR J1622-4950: observations with MeerKAT, Parkes, XMM-Newton, Swift, Chandra, and NuSTAR
• FRB Energetics and detectability from high redshifts
• Detecting exoplanets with FAST?
• Blind Search for 21-cm Absorption Systems in New Generation Chinese Radio Telescopes
• Astrophysical constraints on the proton-to-electron mass ratio with FAST
• The Interstellar Medium: The Key Component in Galactic Evolution and Modern Cosmology
• The Redshift Dependence of the Radio Flux of Gamma-Ray Bursts and Their Host Galaxies
• The Potential of FAST in Detecting Celestial Hydroxyl Masers and Related Science Topics
• Prospects for detecting ultra-high-energy particles with FAST

Cited by in corpus (23)

• The Gravitational-Wave Physics II: Progress
• FAST observations of an extremely active episode of FRB 20201124A: II. Energy Distribution
• The Large Dispersion and Scattering of FRB 20190520B are Dominated by the Host Galaxy
• Closing a spontaneous-scalarization window with binary pulsars
• CRAFTS for Fast Radio Bursts Extending the dispersion-fluence relation with new FRBs detected by FAST
• Temporal Scattering, Depolarization, and Persistent Radio Emission from Magnetized Inhomogeneous Environments Near Repeating Fast Radio Burst Sources
• 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
• Reduced-order surrogate models for scalar-tensor gravity in the strong field and applications to binary pulsars and GW170817
• Fast radio bursts: do repeaters and non-repeaters originate in statistically similar ensembles
• The arrival time and energy of FRBs traverse the time-energy bivariate space like a Brownian motion
• J-comb: An image fusion algorithm to combine observations covering different spatial frequency ranges
• A pilot search for extragalactic OH absorption with FAST
• Predictions for the FAST telescope's CRAFTS Extra-Galactic HI Survey
• Detection of strong scattering close to the eclipse region of PSR B1957+20
• The two emission states of PSR B1534+12
• Recovering 21-cm signal from simulated FAST intensity maps
• How are gamma-ray burst radio afterglows populated?
• Revisiting Pulsar Velocities Using Gaia Data Release 2
• Observational features of exoplanetary synchrotron radio bursts
• Precise Measurements of CH Maser Emission and Its Abundance in Translucent Clouds
• Constrains on optical emission of FAST-detected FRB 20181130B with GWAC synchronized observations
• Prospects of FRBs and Large Scale 21 cm Power Spectra in Constraining the Epoch of Reionization