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20162026
most citedThe Tianlai Dish Pathfinder Array: design, operation and performance of a prototype transit radio interferometer

54 citations · 344 across the 33 of their papers we have counts for

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34 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

Foreground Subtraction with a Tensor-Based Oriented Singular Value Decomposition Method for HI Experiments

Shifan Zuo, Xuelei Chen, Yi Mao

We introduce a native tensor-based framework for foreground mitigation in 21\,cm intensity mapping (IM), utilizing the Oriented Singular Value Decomposition (O-SVD) algorithm. Whil…

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

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.GA2026

FATHOMER survey: III. Preliminary HI galaxy identification results

Shuanghao Shu, Yichao Li, Wenxiu Yang +6

We present the HI galaxy observation results of the FATHOMER (FAst neuTral HydrOgen intensity Mapping ExpeRiment), a pilot drift scan survey by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Sphe…

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.CO2024

CRAFTS for HI cosmology: I. data processing pipeline and validation tests

Wenxiu Yang, Laura Wolz, Yichao Li +20

We present the calibration procedures and validation of source measurement with the data of the Commensal Radio Astronomy FAST Survey (CRAFTS) for \HI intensity mapping by the Five…

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.IM2023

Application of Regularization Methods in the Sky Map Reconstruction of the Tianlai Cylinder Pathfinder Array

Kaifeng Yu, Shifan Zuo, Fengquan Wu +2

The Tianlai cylinder pathfinder is a radio interferometer array to test 21 cm intensity mapping techniques in the post-reionization era. It works in passive drift scan mode to surv…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 1 cited

Simulation-based Inference of Reionization Parameters from 3D Tomographic 21 cm Light-cone Images -- II: Application of Solid Harmonic Wavelet Scattering Transform

Xiaosheng Zhao, Yi Mao, Shifan Zuo +1

The information regarding how the intergalactic medium is reionized by astrophysical sources is contained in the tomographic three-dimensional 21 cm images from the epoch of reioni…

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.IM2023★ 2 cited

3D ScatterNet: Inference from 21 cm Light-cones

Xiaosheng Zhao, Shifan Zuo, Yi Mao

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will have the sensitivity to take the 3D light-cones of the 21 cm signal from the epoch of reionization. This signal, however, is highly non-Gaussi…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 2 cited

Map Reconstruction of radio observations with Conditional Invertible Neural Networks

Haolin Zhang, Shifan Zuo, Le Zhang

In radio astronomy, the challenge of reconstructing a sky map from time ordered data (TOD) is known as an inverse problem. Standard map-making techniques and gridding algorithms ar…

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.IM2023

Detecting HI Galaxies with Deep Neural Networks in the Presence of Radio Frequency Interference

Ruxi Liang, Furen Deng, Zepei Yang +9

In neutral hydrogen (HI) galaxy survey, a significant challenge is to identify and extract the HI galaxy signal from observational data contaminated by radio frequency interference…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 16 cited

A Semi-blind PCA-based Foreground Subtraction Method for 21 cm Intensity Mapping

Shifan Zuo, Xuelei Chen, Yi Mao

The Principal Component Analysis (PCA) method and the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) method are widely used for foreground subtraction in 21 cm intensity mapping experiments. W…

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.IM2021★ 21 cited

Imaging sensitivity of a linear interferometer array on lunar orbit

Yuan Shi, Yidong Xu, Li Deng +6

Ground-based observation at frequencies below 30 MHz is hindered by the ionosphere of the Earth and radio frequency interference. To map the sky at these low frequencies, we have p…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 11 cited

1/f Noise Analysis for FAST HI Intensity Mapping Drift-Scan Experiment

Wenkai Hu, Yichao Li, Yougang Wang +8

We investigate the 1/f noise of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) receiver system using drift-scan data from an intensity mapping pilot survey. All the 19…

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.GA2021★ 30 cited

An Ultra-long Wavelength Sky Model with Absorption Effect

Yanping Cong, Bin Yue, Yidong Xu +3

The radio sky at frequencies below MHz is still largely unknown, this remains the last unexplored part of the electromagnetic spectrum in astronomy. The upcoming space exp…

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…