10.04.2018
Guiyang, March 13 / Xinhua/ — The Chinese FAST radio telescope, installed in Guizhou Province in southwest China, has detected 51 pulsar candidates since it began operation in September 2016, 11 of them have been intensified as new pulsars. This was reported to the Xinhua news agency at the State Astronomical Observatory of China (GAOC).
According to the agency’s interlocutor, currently the work on setting up the telescope is going well. FAST is capable of performing a drift scan every twenty days.
FAST will undoubtedly find even more pulsar candidates, which will help astrophysicists deepen their systematic investigation of the cosmos, said GAOK researcher Wang Pei.
FAST / Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope / is located in a natural karst depression in a mountainous area in Guizhou Province. In terms of the size of the aperture and the sensitivity of the FAST receiver, it has no analogues in the world. The aperture with a diameter of 500 m consists of 4450 reflectors and occupies an area equal to the area of 30 football fields.
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