Large-scale Array for Radio Astronomy on the Farside
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| author | Chen, Xuelei Gao, Feng Wu, Fengquan Zhang, Yechi Wang, Tong Liu, Weilin Zou, Dali Deng, Furen Gong, Yang He, Kai Li, Jixia Sun, Shijie Suo, Nanben Wang, Yougang Wu, Pengju Xu, Jiaqin Xu, Yidong Yue, Bin Zhang, Cong Zhou, Jia Zhou, Minquan Zhu, Chenguang Zhu, Jiacong |
| author_facet | Chen, Xuelei Gao, Feng Wu, Fengquan Zhang, Yechi Wang, Tong Liu, Weilin Zou, Dali Deng, Furen Gong, Yang He, Kai Li, Jixia Sun, Shijie Suo, Nanben Wang, Yougang Wu, Pengju Xu, Jiaqin Xu, Yidong Yue, Bin Zhang, Cong Zhou, Jia Zhou, Minquan Zhu, Chenguang Zhu, Jiacong |
| contents | At the Royal Society meeting in 2023, we have mainly presented our lunar orbit array concept called DSL, and also briefly introduced a concept of a lunar surface array, LARAF. As the DSL concept had been presented before, in this article we introduce the LARAF. We propose to build an array in the far side of the Moon, with a master station which handles the data collection and processing, and 20 stations with maximum baseline of 10 km. Each station consists 12 membrane antenna units, and the stations are connected to the master station by power line and optical fiber. The array will make interferometric observation in the 0.1-50 MHz band during the lunar night, powered by regenerated fuel cells (RFCs). The whole array can be carried to the lunar surface with a heavy rocket mission, and deployed with a rover in 8 months. Such an array would be an important step in the long term development of lunar based ultralong wavelength radio astronomy. It has a sufficiently high sensitivity to observe many radio sources in the sky, though still short of the dark age fluctuations. We discuss the possible options in the power supply, data communication, deployment, etc. |
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| spellingShingle | Large-scale Array for Radio Astronomy on the Farside Chen, Xuelei Gao, Feng Wu, Fengquan Zhang, Yechi Wang, Tong Liu, Weilin Zou, Dali Deng, Furen Gong, Yang He, Kai Li, Jixia Sun, Shijie Suo, Nanben Wang, Yougang Wu, Pengju Xu, Jiaqin Xu, Yidong Yue, Bin Zhang, Cong Zhou, Jia Zhou, Minquan Zhu, Chenguang Zhu, Jiacong Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics At the Royal Society meeting in 2023, we have mainly presented our lunar orbit array concept called DSL, and also briefly introduced a concept of a lunar surface array, LARAF. As the DSL concept had been presented before, in this article we introduce the LARAF. We propose to build an array in the far side of the Moon, with a master station which handles the data collection and processing, and 20 stations with maximum baseline of 10 km. Each station consists 12 membrane antenna units, and the stations are connected to the master station by power line and optical fiber. The array will make interferometric observation in the 0.1-50 MHz band during the lunar night, powered by regenerated fuel cells (RFCs). The whole array can be carried to the lunar surface with a heavy rocket mission, and deployed with a rover in 8 months. Such an array would be an important step in the long term development of lunar based ultralong wavelength radio astronomy. It has a sufficiently high sensitivity to observe many radio sources in the sky, though still short of the dark age fluctuations. We discuss the possible options in the power supply, data communication, deployment, etc. |
| title | Large-scale Array for Radio Astronomy on the Farside |
| topic | Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16409 |