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  • The FAST Core Array

    分类: 天文学 >> 天文仪器与技术 提交时间: 2024-04-16 合作期刊: 《天文技术与仪器(英文)》

    摘要:The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) Core Array is a proposed extension of FAST, integrating 24 secondary 40-m antennas implanted within 5 km of the FAST site. This original array design will combine the unprecedented sensitivity of FAST with a high angular resolution (4.3" at a frequency of 1.4 GHz), thereby exceeding the capabilities at similar frequencies of next-generation arrays such as the Square Kilometre Array Phase 1 or the next-generation Very Large Array. This article presents the technical specifications of the FAST Core Array, evaluates its potential relatively to existing radio telescope arrays, and describes its expected scientific prospects. The proposed array will be equipped with technologically advanced backend devices, such as real-time signal processing systems. A phased array feed receiver will be mounted on FAST to improve the survey efficiency of the FAST Core Array, whose broad frequency coverage and large field of view( FOV) will be essential to study transient cosmic phenomena such as fast radio bursts and gravitational wave events, to conduct surveys and resolve structures in neutral hydrogen galaxies, to monitor or detect pulsars, and to investigate exoplanetary systems. Finally, the FAST Core Array can strengthen China's major role in the global radio astronomy community, owing to a wide range of potential scientific applications from cosmology to exoplanet science.

  • Emulating power spectra for pre- and post-reconstructed galaxy samples

    分类: 天文学 >> 天文学 提交时间: 2023-12-25

    摘要: The small-scale linear information in galaxy samples typically lost during non-linear growth can be restored to a certain level by the density field reconstruction, which has been demonstrated for improving the precision of the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) measurements. As proposed in the literature, a joint analysis of the power spectrum before and after the reconstruction enables an efficient extraction of information carried by high-order statistics. However, the statistics of the post#2;reconstruction density field are difficult to model. In this work, we circumvent this issue by developing an accurate emulator for the pre-reconstructed, post-reconstructed, and cross power spectra (Ppre, Ppost, Pcross) up to k = 0.5 h Mpc1 based on the Dark Quest N-body simulations. The accuracy of the emulator is at percent level, namely, the error of the emulated monopole and quadrupole of the power spectra is less than 1% and 5% of the ground truth, respectively. A fit to an example power spectra using the emulator shows that the constraints on cosmological parameters get largely improved using Ppre+Ppost+Pcross with kmax = 0.25 h Mpc1 , compared to that derived from Ppre alone, namely, the constraints on (Ωm, H0, 8) are tightened by 41% 55%, and the uncertainties of the derived BAO and RSD parameters (, , f8) shrink by 28% 54%, respectively. This highlights the complementarity among Ppre, Ppost and Pcross, which demonstrates the efficiency and practicability of a joint Ppre, Ppost and Pcross analysis for cosmological implications.