The Chinese Giant Radio Telescope (FAST), which is the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world, has discovered more than 900 pulsars since its launch in 2016.
These stars included more than 120 binary pulsars, more than 170 millisecond pulsars, and 80 faint and intermittent pulsars.
The China Media Group, citing Professor Han Jinlin of the Chinese National Astronomical Observatories, confirmed the importance of these discoveries in understanding the dense remains of dead stars in the Milky Way Galaxy and their radiation characteristics, and that observing pulsars is a major task for the “FAST” telescope, which can be used to confirm the presence of radiation. Gravity and black holes, and help answer many fundamental physics questions.
It is noteworthy that the “FAST” telescope is located in a deep karst depression in Guizhou Province, southwest China. It officially began operation in January 2020, and it is believed to be the most sensitive radio telescope in the world.
The telescope team is constantly striving to improve its performance, as the annual observing time currently amounts to about 5,300 hours.
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