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most citedInterplanetary spacecraft navigation using pulsars

58 citations · 227 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.IM2022★ 32 cited

Status and progress of China SKA Regional Centre prototype

Tao An, Xiaocong Wu, Baoqiang Lao +5

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project consists of delivering two largest radio telescope arrays being built by the SKA Observatory (SKAO), which is an intergovernmental organiza…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 21 cited

Artificial intelligence for celestial object census: the latest technology meets the oldest science

Baoqiang Lao, Tao An, Ailing Wang +5

Large surveys using modern telescopes are producing images that are increasing exponentially in size and quality. Identifying objects in the generated images by visual recognition…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 13 cited

A compact core-jet structure in the changing-look Seyfert NGC 2617

Jun Yang, Zsolt Paragi, Robert J. Beswick +9

The nearby face-on spiral galaxy NGC 2617 underwent an unambiguous 'inside-out' multi-wavelength outburst in Spring 2013, and a dramatic Seyfert type change probably between 2010 a…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 32 cited

Compact Bright Radio-loud AGNs -- III. A Large VLBA Survey at 43 GHz

X. -P. Cheng, T. An, S. Frey +12

We present the observational results from the 43-GHz Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) observations of 124 compact radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs) that were conducted betwee…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 9 cited

Parallel implementation of w-projection wide-field imaging

Baoqiang Lao, Tao An, Ang Yu +5

w-Projection is a wide-field imaging technique that is widely used in radio synthesis arrays. Processing the wide-field big data generated by the future Square Kilometre Array (SKA…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 23 cited

Space very long baseline interferometry in China

Tao An, Xiaoyu Hong, Weimin Zheng +19

Space very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) has unique applications in high-resolution imaging of fine structure of astronomical objects and high-precision astrometry due to the…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 10 cited

The Most Compact Bright Radio-loud AGN -- II. VLBA Observations of Ten Sources at 43 and 86~GHz

X. -P. Cheng, T. An, X. -Y. Hong +10

Radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs), hosting powerful relativistic jet outflows, provide an excellent laboratory for studying jet physics. Very long baseline interferometry (V…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 24 cited

NGC5252: a pair of radio-emitting active galactic nuclei?

Xiaolong Yang, Jun Yang, Zsolt Paragi +7

The X-ray source CXO J133815.6+043255 has counterparts in the UV, optical, and radio bands. Based on the multi-band investigations, it has been recently proposed by Kim et al. (201…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 5 cited

The most compact bright radio-loud AGN -- I. A new target sample selected for the space VLBI

Tao An, Xiaocong Wu, Sandor Frey

We investigated the archival ground-based VLBI images of the extragalactic radio sources included in both the {\it Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)} and the {\it Planck}…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 58 cited

Interplanetary spacecraft navigation using pulsars

X. P. Deng, G. Hobbs, X. P. You +10

We demonstrate how observations of pulsars can be used to help navigate a spacecraft travelling in the solar system. We make use of archival observations of millisecond pulsars fro…