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20222026
most citedLarge-scale Array for Radio Astronomy on the Farside

19 citations · 59 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

The FAST HI 21-cm Absorption Blind Survey. III. OH Absorption Search in the 21-cm Absorber Sample and Continued HI Absorption Search

Wenkai Hu, Yougang Wang, Jeremy Darling +11

We present the first blind search for OH 18-cm absorption with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), conducted alongside the HI 21-cm absorption search. Our p…

astro-ph.IM2026

Synthesis imaging with a lunar orbit array: III. Augmented lagrangian Multiplier Imaging using Gradient descent Optimization (AMIGO)

Meng Zhou, Furen Deng, Yidong Xu +1

Ground-based radio observations below 30 MHz are severely limited by ionospheric interference and radio frequency interference (RFI) from Earth. A lunar-orbiting radio interferomet…

astro-ph.HE2026

No Strong Evidence for Plasma Lensing in FRB 20240114A

Jiarui Niu, Xiaohui Liu, Nan Xu +33

FRB 20240114A is an extremely active repeating fast radio burst for which plasma lensing has been proposed to explain its burst-rate variations, spectral evolution, and apparently…

astro-ph.CO2026

Observational Frontiers in the post-EoR 21-cm Intensity Mapping: Lessons from the SKA Pathfinders

Khandakar Md Asif Elahi, Somnath Bharadwaj, Philip Bull +21

The 21-cm line from neutral hydrogen has long been recognised as a promising tracer of the large-scale structure of the Universe. The line is weak however, making individual galaxy…

astro-ph.GA2026

Cross-Comparison of Galaxies Detected in the CSST Spectroscopic Survey and the SKA HI Survey

Yingfeng Liu, Furen Deng, Wenxiang Pei +8

We present a forward-modeling framework to forecast the galaxies detected in the Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST) spectroscopic survey and the Square Kilometre Array (…

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.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★ 2 cited

Synthesis imaging with a lunar orbit array: I. global sky map and its systematics

Furen Deng, Yidong Xu, Fengquan Wu +3

Ground-based radio astronomical observation at frequencies below 30 MHz is hampered by the Ionosphere and radio frequency interference (RFI). The Discovering Sky at the Longest wav…

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

Probing the cosmological 21~cm global signal from the Antarctic ice sheet

Shijie Sun, Jiaqin Xu, Minquan Zhou +7

The redshifted 21 cm line, arising from neutral hydrogen, offers a unique probe into the intergalactic medium and the first stars and galaxies formed in the early universe. However…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 6 cited

RFSoC receiver calibration system for 21-cm global spectrum experiments from space: The CosmoCube case

Jiacong Zhu, Eloy de Lera Acedo, Kaan Artuc +1

The CosmoCube project plans to deploy a global 21-cm spectrometer with 10-100 MHz observation band in a lunar orbit. The farside part of such an orbit, i.e. the part of orbit behin…

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.GA2025

Reconstructing the Anisotropic Ultra-long Wavelength Spectra using a Single Antenna on Lunar-orbit

Qige Ao, Furen Deng, Yidong Xu +3

The ultra-long wavelength sky ( MHz) is still largely unexplored, as the electromagnetic wave is heavily absorbed and distorted by the ionosphere on Earth. The far-si…

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.GA2024★ 5 cited

The FAST HI 21-cm absorption blind survey. II. -- Statistic Exploration for Associated and Intervening systems

Wenkai Hu, Yougang Wang, Yichao Li +12

We present an extragalactic HI 21-cm absorption lines catalog from a blind search at z 0.35, using drift-scan data collected in 1325.6 hours by the ongoing Commensal Ra…

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★ 3 cited

Forecast measurement of the 21 cm global spectrum from Lunar orbit with the Vari-Zeroth-Order Polynomial (VZOP) method

Tianyang Liu, Jiajun Zhang, Yuan Shi +7

The cosmic 21 cm signal serves as a crucial probe for studying the evolutionary history of the Universe. However, detecting the 21 cm signal poses significant challenges due to its…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 10 cited

Calibration Error in 21-centimeter Global Spectrum Experiments

Shijie Sun, Eloy de Lera Acedo, Fengquan Wu +3

The redshifted 21 cm line signal is a powerful probe of the cosmic dawn and the epoch of reionization. The global spectrum can potentially be detected with a single antenna and spe…

astro-ph.CO2024

Tackling Challenges in 21cm Global Spectrum Experiment: the Impact of Ionosphere and Beam Distortion

Yue Wang, Xin Wang, Shijie Sun +3

The HI 21cm global signal from the Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) offers critical insights into the evolution of our Universe. Yet, its detection presents signific…

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

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

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.CO2023★ 3 cited

On Measuring the 21 cm Global Spectrum of the Cosmic Dawn with an Interferometer Array

Xin Zhang, Bin Yue, Yuan Shi +2

We theoretically investigate the recovery of global spectrum (monopole) from visibilities (cross-correlation only) measured by the interferometer array and the feasibility of extra…