China’s FAST telescope reveals unprecedented details of Milky Way (2022)

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Man, I wish the Chinese were better at publishing their results! We just get two low resolution images and there isn't even a title of the article this was supposedly published in :(

I tried scanning through the issues from this year of "Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy" but nothing looked like it was an actual FAST result paper (only one mentioned FAST in the title, and that was an instrumentation paper).

Funny to see that "Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy" is actually an English language Springer publication, as the title makes it sound like something they'd put out locally.

Peering into the Milky Way by FAST: I + II + III + IV

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11433-022-2040-8

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11433-022-2039-8

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11433-022-2033-2

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11433-022-2031-7

https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.11299 ("I. Exquisite HI structures in the inner Galactic disk from the piggyback line observations of the FAST GPPS survey")

https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.11301 ("II. Ionized gas in the inner Galactic disk revealed by the piggyback line observations of the FAST GPPS survey")

https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.11302 ("III. Magnetic fields in the Galactic halo and farther spiral arms revealed by the Faraday effect of faint pulsars")

https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.11408 ("IV. Identification of two new Galactic supernova remnants G203.1+6.6 and G206.7+5.9")

Nice one!

I looked to Sci-Hub and forgot about the obvious - thanks for adding in downloadable links and full titles.

Thanks!!!!!!!!!

all original high res data & images here

[1] https://fast.bao.ac.cn/ [2] http://zmtt.bao.ac.cn/GPPS/GPPSnewPSR.html

Is that something you know, or something you are guessing? In particular [2] explicitly says at the top that it is a bunch of new pulsars, so it would be very surprising to find large skymaps there.

I tried looking at [1], but they don't make it easy finding the skymap.

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