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20172026
most citedThe Tianlai Dish Pathfinder Array: design, operation and performance of a prototype transit radio interferometer

54 citations · 228 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

astro-ph.CO2026

Foreground Mitigation and Power Spectrum Analysis for Tianlai Full-Sky 21 cm Survey Observation

Yikai Deng, Shifan Zuo, Jixia Li +2

We present a comprehensive analysis of the 21 cm intensity mapping (IM) data from the Tianlai Cylinder Pathfinder Array (TCPA), focusing on multi-scale foreground mitigation and th…

astro-ph.IM2026

The Operation Control System for the Tianlai Experiment

Jixia Li, Fengquan Wu, Shijie Sun +2

The Tianlai 21cm intensity mapping experiment is located at the Hongliuxia Observing Station, which is a remote site with excellent electromagnetic environment. To facilitate the o…

astro-ph.IM2026

Measuring Tianlai's primary beam using sky model

Yunbo Geng, Furen Deng, Jixia Li +6

We present the beam pattern measurement of the Tianlai Cylinder Pathfinder Array. As it is a pure drift-scan instrument, we exploit the North-South motion of the Sun to demonstrate…

astro-ph.IM2026

21 cm Power Spectrum Analysis of North Celestial Pole Observations with the Tianlai Dish Pathfinder Array

Guangzhi He, Shifan Zuo, Jixia Li +11

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

astro-ph.CO2026

The Tianlai-WIYN North Celestial Cap Redshift Survey

Reza Ansari, Gabriela A. Marques, John P. Marriner +13

We present the results of a small, low redshift spectroscopic survey of galaxies within 3 degrees of the North Celestial Pole (NCP) selected using V-band photometry obtained from t…

astro-ph.IM2025

Beamforming in Interferometer Arrays with Cross-couplings

Yingfeng Liu, Shijie Sun, Kaifeng Yu +6

For an interferometric array, an image of the sky can be synthesized from interferometric visibilities, which are the cross-correlations of the received electric voltages of pairs…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 2 cited

Measurement of the Primary Beam of the Tianlai Cylindrical Antenna Using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

Jixia Li, Nanben Suo, Shenzhe Xu +9

The Tianlai Cylinder Pathfinder Array consists of three adjacent cylindrical reflectors fixed on the ground, each 40 meters long and 15 meters wide, with the cylinder axis oriented…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 3 cited

The Electrical Design of a Membrane Antenna for Lunar-based Low-frequency Radio Telescope

Suonanben, Fengquan Wu, Kai He +15

Detecting primordial fluctuations from the cosmic dark ages requires extremely large low-frequency radio telescope arrays deployed on the far side of the Moon. The antenna of such…

astro-ph.IM2024

The FRB-searching pipeline of the Tianlai Cylinder Pathfinder Array

Zijie Yu, Furen Deng, Shijie Sun +14

This paper presents the design, calibration, and survey strategy of the Fast Radio Burst (FRB) digital backend and its real-time data processing pipeline employed in the Tianlai Cy…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 19 cited

Large-scale Array for Radio Astronomy on the Farside

Xuelei Chen, Feng Gao, Fengquan Wu +20

At the Royal Society meeting in 2023, we have mainly presented our lunar orbit array concept called DSL, and also briefly introduced a concept of a lunar surface array, LARAF. As t…

astro-ph.IM2023

The Effects of the Local Environment on a Compact Radio Interferometer I: Cross-coupling in the Tianlai Dish Pathfinder Array

Juhun Kwak, John Podczerwinski, Peter Timbie +10

The visibilities measured by radio astronomical interferometers include non-astronomical correlated signals that arise from the local environment of the array. These correlated sig…

astro-ph.IM2023

A simulation of calibration and map-making errors of the Tianlai cylinder pathfinder array

Kaifeng Yu, Fengquan Wu, Shifan Zuo +4

The Tianlai cylinder array is a pathfinder for developing and testing 21cm intensity mapping techniques. In this paper, we use numerical simulation to assess how its measurement is…

astro-ph.CO2023

FAST drift scan survey for HI intensity mapping: I. preliminary data analysis

Yichao Li, Yougang Wang, Furen Deng +15

This work presents the initial results of the drift-scan observation for the neutral hydrogen (HI) intensity mapping survey with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Tel…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 7 cited

A Fast Transient Backend to Detect FRBs with the Tianlai Dish Pathfinder Array

Zijie Yu, Furen Deng, Shijie Sun +11

The Tianlai Dish Pathfinder array is a radio interferometer array consisting of 16 six meter dish antennas. The original digital backend integration time is at the seconds level, d…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 17 cited

The Tianlai dish array low-z surveys forecasts

Olivier Perdereau, Réza Ansari, Albert Stebbins +23

We present the science case for surveys with the Tianlai dish array interferometer tuned to the frequency range. Starting from a realistic…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 20 cited

The Electromagnetic Characteristics of the Tianlai Cylindrical Pathfinder Array

Shijie Sun, Jixia Li, Fengquan Wu +8

A great challenge for 21 cm intensity mapping experiments is the strong foreground radiation which is orders of magnitude brighter than the 21cm signal. Removal of the foreground t…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 2 cited

AlgoSCR: An algorithm for Solar Contamination Removal from radio interferometric data

Anh Phan, Santanu Das, Albert Stebbins +10

Hydrogen intensity mapping is a new field in astronomy that promises to make three-dimensional maps of the matter distribution of the Universe using the redshifted $21\,\textrm{cm}…

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★ 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★ 21 cited

Beam Measurements of the Tianlai Dish Radio Telescope using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

Juyong Zhang, Jingxin Liu, Fengquan Wu +7

Precision measurement of the beam pattern of an antenna is very important for many applications. While traditionally such measurement is often made in a microwave anechoic chamber…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 43 cited

The Tianlai Cylinder Pathfinder Array: System Functions and Basic Performance Analysis

Jixia Li, Shifan Zuo, Fengquan Wu +35

The Tianlai Cylinder Pathfinder is a radio interferometer array designed to test techniques for 21 cm intensity mapping in the post-reionization Universe, with the ultimate aim of…

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★ 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.IM2017

Simulation and Testing of a Linear Array of Modified Four-Square Feed Antennas for the Tianlai Cylindrical Radio Telescope

Aleksander J. Cianciara, Christopher J. Anderson, Xuelei Chen +16

A wide bandwidth, dual polarized, modified four-square antenna is presented as a feed antenna for radio astronomical measurements. A linear array of these antennas is used as a lin…