FAST: Its Scientific Achievements and Prospects

Lei Qian; Rui Yao; Jinghai Sun; Jinlong Xu; Zhichen Pan; Peng Jiang

doi:10.1016/j.xinn.2020.100053

FAST: Its Scientific Achievements and Prospects

Innovation (Camb). 2020 Nov 4;1(3):100053. doi: 10.1016/j.xinn.2020.100053. eCollection 2020 Nov 25.

Authors

Lei Qian^{1

2}, Rui Yao^{1

2}, Jinghai Sun^{1

2}, Jinlong Xu^{1

2}, Zhichen Pan^{1

2}, Peng Jiang^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
² University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.

Abstract

FAST is the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world. The characteristics of FAST are presented and analyzed in the context of the parameter space to show how FAST science achievements are affected. We summarize the scientific achievements of FAST and discuss its future science based on the new parts of the parameter space that can be explored by FAST.

Keywords: radio astronomy; radio telescope.

Publication types

Review