Wednesday Colloquia

The Commensal Radio Astronomy FAST Survey (CRAFTS)

by Prof. Di Li (National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Acedemy of Sciences)

Asia/Kolkata
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Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/97963259354?pwd=ZFZsa2xqWGJSZW5pUjZPNkNqeGlEZz09

Online through ZOOM Webinar

Meeting ID: 979 6325 9354 Pass code: 04072020
Description
The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) has released its first call for proposal and will be open to the international community next year. Based on a novel technique of high-cadence CAL injection, we have realized the world's first calibrated commensal survey mode, simultaneously taking data for pulsar search, HI galaxies, HI imaging, and FRBs. I introduce here one of the major survey plans, namely, the Commensal Radio Astronomy FAST Survey (CRAFTS, Li et al. 2018), which has discovered more than 100 new pulsars, including a few dozen MSPs, 5 new FRBs, including one new repeater. I will also briefly describe recent FAST results from CRAFTS and other dedicated programs, including new insights into the characteristic energy of FRBs, the formation process of neutron stars, the evolution of interstellar medium, etc. References: 1. Li, D., Wang, P., Qian, L., et al. 2018, IEEE Microwave Magazine, 19, 112. doi:10.1109/MMM.2018.2802178