The five-hundred-meter aperture spherical radio telescope (FAST) project

By R. Nan, Di Li. International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics, 2011

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Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) is a Chinese "mega-science" project to build the largest single dish radio telescope in the world. Its engineering concept and design pave a new road to realize a huge single dish in an effective way. Being the most sensitive single dish radio telescope, FAST will enable astronomers to jump-start many science goals, such as surveying the neutral hydrogen in the Milky Way and other galaxies, detecting faint pulsars, hearing the possible signals from other civilizations, etc. The feasibility studies for FAST have been carried out for 14 years, supported by Chinese and international astronomy communities. The National Development and Reform Commission approved the funding proposal of FAST in 2007 with a capital budget close to 700 million RMB. The project time is 5.5 years from the commencement of work in March of 2011 and the first light is expected in 2016.

Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Citations in the corpus

• A Review of Gravitational Waves from Cosmic Domain Walls (2017, background): “The sensitivity will be improved in future PTA projects such as SKA [135] and FAST [136].”
• Testing Relativistic Gravity with Radio Pulsars (2014, background): “The upcoming next generation of radio telescopes, like the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) [149] and the The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) [150], certainly promise a big step towards this goal.”
• The quest for dual and binary supermassive black holes: A multi-messenger view (2019, background): “such as FAST (Nan et al., 2011) and SKA (Dewdney et al.”
• The International Pulsar Timing Array: First Data Release (2016, background): “Its receiver platform is also moveable so that a substantial part of the sky can be observed (Nan et al. 2011).”