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Insight China (13) LAMOST and FAST

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LAMOST:
The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope

FAST:
Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope

The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST),
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAMOST
also known as the Guo Shoujing Telescope after the 13th-century Chinese astronomer, is a meridian reflecting Schmidt telescope, located in Xinglong Station, Hebei Province, China. Undertaken by the Chinese Academy of Science, the telescope is planned to conduct a 5-year spectroscopic survey of 10 million Milky Way stars, as well as millions of galaxies.

photo source: http://i.guancha.cn



LAMOST Schematic
Diameter 4 meter, Secondary diameter 6 meter.
http://lamost.us/legue/images/story_images/lamostguoshoujing-telescope/lamost_optics1.jpg


photo source: http://www.lamost.org/public/?locale=en





Data from China's Finest Telescope Released Worldwide
Mar 20, 2015
http://english.cas.cn/newsroom/news/201503/t20150320_145515.shtml
"LAMOST observations between 2012 and 2017 are expected to collect more than five million high-quality spectra in total. These spectra data will be the cornerstone for digitizing the universe and provide significant help for studying the structure, movements, formation and development of the universe," said Zhao Gang, a senior NAOC official.
DR1 data set is available at http://dr1.lamost.org for download.


Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) is a Chinese mega-science project to build the largest single dish radio telescope in the world. Its innovative engineering concept and design pave a new road to realize a huge single dish in the most effective way.

FAST also represents Chinese contribution in the international efforts to build the square kilometer array (SKA). Being the most sensitive single dish radio telescope, FAST will enable astronomers to jump-start many science goals, for example, surveying the neutral hydrogen in the Milky Way and other galaxies, detecting faint pulsars, looking for the first shining stars, hearing the possible signals from other civilizations, etc.

FIVE-HUNDRED-METER APERTURE SPHERICAL RADIO TELESCOPE (FAST)
the basic Spherical surface construction was completed on February 4, 2015, The final reflective surface will be completed in 2016.