A Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), the largest single dish in the world, is proposed to be built in one of the karst depressions in Guizhou province. The main spherical reflector is to consist o...A Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), the largest single dish in the world, is proposed to be built in one of the karst depressions in Guizhou province. The main spherical reflector is to consist of about two thousand small panels, which can be adjusted to fit a paraboloid in real time. There are many slit-like gaps across the aperture due to manufacturing errors thermal effects and deviations between a sphere and a paraboloid. The influence of the energy leakage of the narrow gaps on the system noise temperature of the FAST reflector is discussed in this paper.展开更多
文摘A Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), the largest single dish in the world, is proposed to be built in one of the karst depressions in Guizhou province. The main spherical reflector is to consist of about two thousand small panels, which can be adjusted to fit a paraboloid in real time. There are many slit-like gaps across the aperture due to manufacturing errors thermal effects and deviations between a sphere and a paraboloid. The influence of the energy leakage of the narrow gaps on the system noise temperature of the FAST reflector is discussed in this paper.
